Campus telephone: 231-7507 Rm 13, Putnam

Home telephone: 232-2544

E-mail  - donald.shoop@ndsu.nodak.edu

Office hours in Putnam: by  appointment:

Course Prerequisites:  Junior Standing.  Anyone who does not have junior standing or permission form the Dean's office will be removed from the course.

Course Textbook: The Legal and Regulatory Environment,  Third Edition, by Henry R. Cheeseman.

Course Objective: To introduce the student to the legal aspects of business and explore some of the social issues that might confront a business manager today.

Any students with disabilities or other special needs, who need special accommodations in this course, are invited to share these concerns or requests with the instructor as soon as possible.

Students are responsible for submitting their own work. Students who cooperate on oral or written examinations or work without authorization share the responsibility for violation of academic principles, and the students are subject to disciplinary action even when one of the students is not enrolled in the course where the violation occurred.

If any student in a group hands in work copied from someone who has taken this class before or has work assignments from a prior class, all members of that group will receive an F for the course.

Please visit the College's web site

(http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/cba ) for student-related announcements. All job and co-op openings, seminars, scholarships, employer visits to campus, and other general announcements will be posted at the "announcements" button.

Evaluation of student work will be as follows:

100% - 90% A;   89% - 80% B;   79% - 70% C;   69% - 60% D;   <60% F
pts. 450-405         404-360             359-315            314-270            <270
Three examinations will be given, each worth 100 points, the last exam will be offered during finals week and will be over all topics covered since exam 2.

 Other course points:

Group Case presentations 20 points total possible.

Student evaluations 30 points total possible.

Group Business paper 100 points total possible.

It is the students responsibility to read all of the material in the chapters and be prepared.  Class participation is an integral part of the course,  no student should remain enrolled in this course who cannot attend all the classes as scheduled.

Students will form into or will be assigned to groups. Each group will be responsible for presenting cases in class. Each member of the group will be awarded up to 20 cumulative points for satisfactorily being prepared for each assigned case. Failure to be prepared will result in a loss of points for every member of the group.  Additionally each group will prepare a paper worth up to 100 points for each member of the group, wherein they will put together a start-up company and deal with legal issues presented to them by the instructor (see page 2 ).

The following pages will be updated as necessary as we go through the semester:

Case Assignments & paper outline go to page 2

Notes & Sample Questions/Answers chapters 1,2,3,4,5,  page 3

Notes & Sample Questions/Answers for chapters 6,7,8,9,11,12,14 page 4

Notes & Sample Questions/Answers for chapter 15,16,17,18, 19,20,21,23 page 5

Exam scores  group points, in-class points and student evaluation points go to page 6

At the end of the semester students will be instructed to fill out evaluations of the other members of their group. Students will grade each other on their efforts, A=100% or 30 pts, B=89%, C=79%, D=69%, F=59%. The grades a student receives from the other members of the group will be averaged to determine the final points a student receives. If all other members of a group indicate a member did not do any work or a student fails to hand in an evaluation, that student will receive 0 points.

There will be no makeup exams except as follows! If a student misses an examination that student must contact me by the next class period, give a satisfactory explanation for the missed exam (medical emergency doctors note required, death in family, copy of funeral service program required, athletic letter from coach required) and schedule to take the exam. I will endeavor to return exams two class periods after an exam is given. A student missing an exam must make it up before then or a score of 0 will be entered for the exam.

Textbook: http://www.prenhall.com/cheeseman

North Dakota Secretary of State: http://www.state.nd.us/sec

North Dakota Business Development  discovernd.com/business/newbusiness.html   http://www.state.nd.us/businessreg

http://www.ag.ndsu.nodak.edu/ced/communitypage.htm
and
http://www.ag.ndsu.nodak.edu/community.htm

North Dakota Supreme Court: http://www.court.state.nd.us

North Dakota Economic Development and Finance: http://www.growingnd.com

North Dakota Department of Labor: http://www.state.nd.us/labor/Default.htm

FindLaw:s Opinions U.S. Supreme Court: http://www.findlaw.com/casecode/supreme.html

FindLaw's Opinions 8th Circuit: http://www.findlaw.com/casecode/courts/8th.html

North Dakota Bankrupcy Court: http://www.ndb.uscourts.gov

Administrative Law: http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/administrative.html

Constitutional: http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/constitutional.html

Consumer Law: http://consumerlawpage.com

Contracts: http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/contracts.html

Corporations: http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/corporations.html

Employment Law: http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/collective_bargaining.html

Employment Discrimination: http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/employment_discrimination.html

Patent & Trademark Office, Federal: http://www.uspto.gov

Secured Transactions: http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/secured_transactions.html

Torts: http://www.law.indiana.edu/law/v-lib/tort.html

Trade Secrets: http://seamless.com:80/trade/

Trademark: http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/trademark.html