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LEGAL ENVIRONMENT OF BUSINESS

BUS 216 171 (Hybrid)

3 Credit Hours

(August 27-September 24, 2009)

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

Students learn about public law, regulation of business, ethical considerations, and various relationships which exist within society, government and business. Specific attention will be devoted to economic regulation, social regulation, regulations and laws impacting labor-management issues and environmental concerns.  Students will develop an understanding of the role of law in social, political and economic change.

HYBRID DESCRIPTION:

Hybrid courses offer the convenience of an Internet course with the opportunity to meet face to face with the instructor and classmates.  Although all of the work can be done through the internet, scheduled meeting times will be published for each course.  There are five mandatory onsite meetings for this class.

REQUIRED MEETING DATES, TIMES, AND LOCATION:

Thursdays: August 27, September 3, 10, 17, 24

6:00 p.m.- 9:05 p.m.

CLC 903, Room 215

COURSE WEBSITE:

http://online.ccaurora.edu

INSTRUCTOR INFORMATION:

Name

Robin R. Rossenfeld

Phone

303.340.7255

E-mail

Robin.Rossenfeld@CCAurora.edu

Fax

303.340.7080

Mailbox Location

CLC 859, Room 119

Other

REQUIRED COMPUTER SKILLS:

·         Send/receive mail

·         Download files to your computer and then open them

·         Basic word processing skills 

·         Experience with the Blackboard Vista tool or reference the help page with Information on Blackboard Vista.

REQUIRED TEXT BOOK(S):

Law for Business, 10^th Edition  (2008) by Barnes, Dworkin and Richards, McGraw-Hill Irwin Publishers, ISBN 978-0-07-352493-1

REQUIRED MATERIALS:

You Be the Judge  DVD-Roms – Disc 1 ISBN 0-07-327471-2; Disc 2 ISBN 0-07-327472-0 (included with new textbook; can be purchased separately if textbook purchased used. Also available at no additional cost through the Student Site at http://www.mhhe.com/ybtj))

REQUIRED HARDWARE/ SOFTWARE:

·         Supported Web-browser

·         Supported version of Java

·         To confirm your software is supported, run the Browser Check at http://online.ccaurora.edu

·         You can find detailed information on hardware/software support and information on the Technical issues page.

HOW TO GET STARTED:

Before the first class, read chapters 1-4 and review “Other Information,” below about how to brief a case

ORIENTATION SESSION/FIRST MEETING:

August 27 from 6:00 p.m. until 9:05 p.m.

You must attend this orientation session/first meeting..

OTHER INFORMATION:

EIGHT STEPS FOR HOW TO BRIEF A CASE

A case brief is a dissection of a judicial opinion -- it contains a written summary of the basic components of that decision.

FUNCTIONS OF CASE BRIEFING

Case briefing helps you acquire the skills of case analysis and legal reasoning. Briefing a case helps you understand it.

BRIEFING A CASE: THE STEPS

1. Read through the opinion first so you will understand the overall story and identify important facts, etc., before beginning to brief the case on paper.

2. Heading: a. Case name (to identify the parties);

b. Court name; c. Date of the decision; d. Case citation

3. Statement of Facts: a. Identify the relationship/status of the parties; b. Identify legally relevant facts, that is, those facts that tend to prove or disprove an issue before the court. The relevant facts tell what happened before the parties entered the judicial system; c. Identify procedurally significant facts.

4. Procedural History (PH): This is the disposition of the case in the lower court(s) that explains how the case got to the court whose opinion you are

reading

5. Issue: A statement of the issue consists of two parts -- i. the point of law in dispute; ii. the key facts of the case relating to that point of law in dispute (legally relevant facts)

6. Holding: This is a statement of law that is the court’s answer to the issue. It often is the positive or negative statement of the issue statement.

7. Rule of Law or Legal Principle Applied: This is the rule of law that the court applies to determine the substantive rights of the parties.

8. Reasoning: This is the court’s analysis of the issues and the heart of the case brief. It is the way in which the court applied the rule or legal principle to the particular facts in the case to reach its decision.

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