Question 1

Devon, a senior at Central High School, participates in a social media forum on which he posts destructive, bullying lies about Beau, a fellow student.Beau's parent complains to Central officials.Under the First Amendment, Central can most likely

Accepted Answer

A) punish Devon for the posts. 
B) transfer Beau to a different school. 
C) require that all students' future posts be made on the school's public Web site. 
D) post an official note calling Devon's posts "juvenile and silly."

Question 2

In the United States, the freedoms of speech and press are strongly protected.To have a complaint heard by a sympathetic court and effect a greater chance of winning, a plaintiff might file a defamation lawsuit in

Accepted Answer

A) England or Wales. 
B) New York. 
C) Saudi Arabia. 
D) the United States.

Question 3

Chad hosts Durango, a social networking site.Eagle's Nest, a rival site, hires Frank to pepper Durango with stories that raise questions about the site's privacy policy.Durango might most successfully sue Eagle's Nest for

Accepted Answer

A) wrongful interference with a business relationship. 
B) trespass to property. 
C) negligence. 
D) none of the choices.

Question 4

Global Enterprises Corporation (GEC) engages in what some unhappy ex-employees and disgruntled consumers consider to be bad corporate behavior.These individuals post "horror stories" about GEC on rogue Web sites.By providing a forum for complaints, the potential for damage to the reputation of any corporation via the Internet has

Accepted Answer

A) decreased. 
B) increased. 
C) neither decreased nor increased. 
D) both decreased and increased.

Question 5

In Smartphone Games Inc.'s suit against Thermopylae Apps Corporation, Thermopylae seeks to discover electronically stored information (ESI) that should be in Smartphone's possession.If Smartphone did not preserve the ESI despite a clear duty to do so, the company should most likely

Accepted Answer

A) ask the court to sanction Thermopylae for an unreasonable request. 
B) reconstruct the ESI to the best of its ability. 
C) refuse to provide the ESI on the ground that it is confidential. 
D) settle the dispute.

Question 6

World Investment & Trading, Inc.(WIT), encourages its employees to build trust with its customers and other companies.Unfounded complaints and exaggerated charges leveled against WIT online would most likely be regarded by a court as

Accepted Answer

A) an expression of fact. 
B) a form of speech protected by the First Amendment. 
C) an inappropriate online disclosure. 
D) libelous.

Question 7

Arno is judge in a country that follows a civil law system.In Arno's court, the primary source of law consists of

Accepted Answer

A) administrative decisions. 
B) a statutory code. 
C) case precedents. 
D) the laws of other nations.

Question 8

Khalil and Jasmin sign a prenuptial agreement that provides for any dispute to be arbitrated according to Islamic law.When a dispute arises over the parties' marital property in Iowa, Jasmin files a suit in an Iowa state court to contest the arbitration provision.According to rulings in other states' courts in similar cases, the provision will most likely be

Accepted Answer

A) enforced. 
B) rewritten to remove the Islamic law clause. 
C) struck down as outside the common legal framework of our society. 
D) suspended while the court considers an equitable result.

Question 9

Officials with the U.S.Department of Homeland Security search the laptops and smart phones of Diego, a Mexican citizen, and Ethan, a U.S.citizen, when they cross the border between the United States and Mexico.Diego and Ethan object to the search.The most likely basis for their objection is that the search constitutes

Accepted Answer

A) an invasion of privacy. 
B) a breach of contract. 
C) a breach of the principle of comity. 
D) a breach of the act of state doctrine.

Question 10

According to the United States Supreme Court in Miranda v.Arizona, an individual must be apprised of certain of his or her rights whenever the individual is

Accepted Answer

A) arraigned in a court. 
B) imprisoned in a jail. 
C) sentenced for a crime. 
D) taken into custody.

Question 11

FastBreak Ltd.is dissatisfied with its ranking in Google Inc.'s search results.FastBreak files a suit against Google, seeking an injunction.Google argues that its search results are constitutionally protected speech.FastBreak's best argument against Google's position is that

Accepted Answer

A) the First Amendment protects humans against state censorship and protecting a computer's speech is not related to that purpose. 
B) the trillions of decisions made by computers each day do not all constitute protected speech. 
C) computerized algorithms, which generate computer language, do not constitute speech. 
D) search results constitute commercial speech, for which the First Amendment provides only limited protection.

Question 12

Lora initiates a sequence of events involving Mike that results in an injury to Nell.According to the New York Court of Appeals in Palsgraf v.Long Island Railroad Co., if Lora was negligent with respect to Mike, Lora

Accepted Answer

A) is solely liable for Nell's injury. 
B) is not liable for Nell's injury. 
C) may be liable for Nell's injury⎯this is a separate issue. 
D) shares liability with Mike for Nell's injury.

Exam 25: How to Brief Cases and Analyze Case Problems