LEG 500 FINAL EXAM PART 2
LEG 500 Final Exam Part 2
This exam consist of 25 multiple choice questions and covers the material
in Chapters 6 through 9.
1.
According to MIT
professor Layzer, the lobbyists for the energy corporations have used which of
the following tactics to avoid stricter regulation?
2.
Which piece of
legislation was passed first?
3.
According to law
professor Thomas Joo, the best group of persons for addressing the
environmental concerns facing the world today is:
4.
Shareholder
activism includes which of the following?
5.
When
environmentalists recognized that politicians were not going to pass stricter
legislation and regulations, they changed their tactics to force change.
According to the Layzer article in the chapter, these new tactics included:
6.
Under the
___________ plan, the EPA auctions a set number of sulfur dioxide emission
allowances annually, with each allowance permitting one ton of emissions.
7.
The power of the
U.S. Government to take property from a private individual and use it for
public purposes is:
8.
Of product
promotion techniques, which is the most influential according to author Naomi
Klein?
9.
According to
John Kenneth Galbraith, the theory of consumer demand is based on the following
broad assumption(s):
10.
Obesity in
children has continued to rise since 1976 and approximately _____ of all teens
and youth are overweight.
11.
Identify the
true statement(s) regarding freedom of speech:
12.
The “creative
revolution” in advertising refers to
13.
According to the
plaintiff’s attorney, the primary tactic defense attorneys use to minimize liability
is:
14.
The most notable
exception to caveat emptor was for
15.
The Ford Pinto
exploded when rear-ended by another vehicle. Of the types of defects a
product may have, the Pinto suffered from
16.
According to
Stephen Sugarman, performance-based regulation is:
17.
The organization
that works with companies on recalls of unsafe products (such as lead-paint
laden Thomas the Train toys) is
18.
To win a case in
negligence, a plaintiff must prove all but
19.
The Food and
Drug Administration, the Consumer Product Safety Commission and the National
Highway Transportation Safety Association are
20.
In order to
obtain a patent under U.S. Patent Law, an inventor must have an invention that
is
21.
The difference
between the Project Gutenberg (PG) and the Google book scanning project is:
22.
In a lawsuit for
copyright infringement, a defendant can avoid liability by successfully arguing
_________, based on the notion that the free flow of ideas sometimes requires
quoting or borrowing from a copyrighted work.
23.
Once the
copyright on a work has expired,
24.
Debora Halbert
asserts in her essay that:
25. Nike’s swoosh, McDonald’s arches, and the Xerox name are all identifiable
trademarks. Which of the following laws protect(s) them?
No comments:
Post a Comment