BLAW 2301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Alternative Dispute Resolution, Minimum Contacts
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An organization"s responsibility to its customers: ethics case: fanning customer wrath. Organization"s responsibility to overseas contract workers: ethics case: the dragon"s den. A man who will not lie to a woman has very little consideration for her feelings olin miller. Dispute prevention: you have a chance to go broke twice in your life: once when you lose a lawsuit, the other time when you win, take careful planning. One judge and often (but not always) a jury. Trial courts determine the facts of a particular dispute and apply the law to those facts. Jurisdiction is a court"s power to hear a case: subject mater jurisdiction means that a court has the authority hear a certain type of case. Personal jurisdiction: courts may have subject of matter. Personal jurisdiction generally exists if: for individuals, the defendant is resident of the state in which the lawsuit is filed.
