True/False
1. The United States Congress has adopted one particular approach to ethics, and made it a part of the United States Code; all United States businesses must follow only those statutes in the United States Code, and are not allowed to determine what their businesses’ approaches to ethics will be.
2. In Price v. Purdue Pharma Co., precedent prohibiting a plaintiff from recovering against defendants, if the plaintiff’s own criminal acts created the circumstances causing the injury, supported the court’s ruling granting summary judgment in favor of the defendants.
3. Defamation lawsuits are never allowed to proceed, if the defamation occurred online.
4. Child pornography is “speech” protected by the First Amendment.
MULTIPLE CHOICE Choose the one best answer for each of the following questions.
5. The elements of the tort of negligence include
A. defendant’s breach of defendant’s duty
B. plaintiff’s injury or damages
C. a causal connection between defendant’s breach of duty and plaintiff’s injury or damages
D. defendant’s breach of defendant’s duty, plaintiff’s injury or damages, and a causal connection between defendant’s breach of defendant’s duty and plaintiff’s injury or damages
6. Nancy owns a pet store in Seattle, and one of her dogs escapes and runs out onto the sidewalk in front of her store. If a passerby is bitten by Nancy’s dog, despite the passerby’s attempts to avoid and then run away from the dog, under the theory of strict liability, as applied in Washington, Nancy must pay for the injury
A. only if Nancy intended to injure the passerby.
B. only if Nancy knew that the dog had dangerous tendencies, and did not keep the dog restrained.
C. regardless of whether Nancy was at fault in failing to restrain the dog.
D. even if the passerby provoked the dog.
7. The citation of a case includes
A. the names of the parties.
B. the names of the attorneys who represented the parties.
C. the abbreviation for the reporter where the case can be found.
D. two of the listed items.
8. A corporation likely has ethical duties to
A. its owners
B. its employees
C. the general public (society)
D. its owners, its employees, and the general public
9. Intentional torts include
A. Defamation
B. Negligence
C. Trespass to land
D. Defamation and trespass to land
10. Assume that the case ofJones v. Smith has just been decided by the Washington Supreme Court. Of the nine justices, seven agreed that Jones should win; two justices thought that Smith should win. Justice Stephens, one of the two justices who thought that Smith should win, wrote a separate opinion, in which she indicated why she did not agree that Jones should win. Justice Stephens’ opinion would be a
A. dissenting opinion.
B. concurring opinion.
C. unanimous opinion.
D. minority opinion.
11. Primary sources of law do not include
A. statutory law
B. violations of law under the Restatement.
C. administrative agency regulations.
D. case law
12. According to the United States Supreme Court’s decision in theMcCutcheon case, which of the following were interpreted to have more free “political speech” rights than they had previously been interpreted to have?
A. individuals
B. corporations
C. judges, in their official capacity as judges
D. none of the above
13. The Fourteenth Amendment includes a series of protections for the individual against invasions of civil rights by
A. a state government.
B. business entities.
C. private individuals.
D. the federal government.
14. If Jerry and Terry are drivers whose cars collide with each other at Hwy 99 and 196th Street in Lynnwood, WA (Snohomish County), and Jerry is a resident of Seattle, WA (King County), while Terry is a resident of Everett, WA (Snohomish County), then in a subsequent lawsuit by Jerry against Terry, venue would be proper in
A. Seattle
B. Lynnwood
C. Snohomish County
D. King County
15. When a person’s life, liberty, or property is taken away by the government without giving the person notice of the taking, and the opportunity to have a hearing, there has likely been a violation of the person’s rights to
A. procedural due process.
B. substantive due process.
C. equal protection.
D. the interstate commerce clause.
16. Which of the following is a method of alternative dispute resolution?
A. Mediation
B. Negotiated settlement
C. Arbitration
D. Mediation, Negotiated settlement, and Arbitration
