Category: Legal Ethical Issues in Management

Securities: Spoofing and Insider Trading CO-9 Background: Securities violations are the subject of review and enforcement of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), a federal agency.  Two types of violations found in SEC cases are:  (1) spoofing, and (2) insider trading.  Spoofing is a deceptive trading practice to manipulate the market where traders place fake orders to…

Pregnancy Discrimination CO-8 Part of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act is the Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA). The focus of a PDA claim is whether an employer’s policy treats pregnant workers less favorably than it treats non-pregnant workers who are similar in their ability or inability to work; or whether an employer subjects…

FACTS FOR THIS DISCUSSION – DO NOT ADD OR ASSUME UNSTATED FACTS.  ASSUME THE NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOR WAS SITTING IN HIS YARD AND TOOK A VIDEO OF THE WHOLE THING, SO THE FACTS OF THIS HYPOTHETICAL AS RELATED CAN BE PROVED IN COURT. Victor Tremont has a classic muscle car that he fixed up and…

FACTS FOR THIS DISCUSSION – DO NOT ADD OR ASSUME UNSTATED FACTS.  ASSUME THE NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOR WAS SITTING IN HIS YARD AND TOOK A VIDEO OF THE WHOLE THING, SO THE FACTS OF THIS HYPOTHETICAL AS RELATED CAN BE PROVED IN COURT. Victor Tremont has a classic muscle car that he fixed up and…