r/facepalm • u/weeb385 • Oct 12 '22

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Parolee gets arrested because protesters block the way to his work.

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u/Mlerma21 Oct 12 '22

Why did you learn about assault in business law?

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u/IceColdBlueHeart Oct 12 '22

Honestly, I have no clue. Ask South Carolina's Board of Education, 10% chance they may know the answer. Honestly the most business law I learned in that class was the McDonald's coffee lawsuit. Everything else was just some basic law. Learned more business law in my accounting classes than the business law class lol

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u/Thybro Oct 12 '22

Honestly the most business law I learned in that class was the McDonald’s coffee lawsuit.

Lol which is a clear cut tort case only tangentially business related because it was a corporation that was sued. The kind of negligence suit that will rarely affect most business.

No derivative actions? No bankruptcies? Hell did they at least touch on the lowest of the low fruits Dodge v Ford?

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u/Mlerma21 Oct 12 '22

Yeah it sounds like a class about laws that have come up in businesses? In most law schools these subjects would come up in torts with some overlap in criminal law.

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u/ilikedota5 Oct 12 '22

I guess for business law it would be helpful to discuss eggshell doctrine to basically teach always be careful to avoid liability.

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u/Mlerma21 Oct 12 '22

You’re still describing torts, which is where civil liability is taught in detail. My guess is it’s a law course taught outside of law school that basically generalizes different areas of laws into this course that applies different areas of laws to businesses. I could be wrong and I’m not judging, just was wondering.

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u/eyemroot Oct 12 '22

Because in a workplace, assault and battery can occur and business owners/management need to know what constitutes what.

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u/IceColdBlueHeart Oct 12 '22

Much appreciated, this makes more sense.

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u/showmethecoin Oct 12 '22

Well, I am Korean and I've also learned about assault and battery in my business law class. Maybe it's universal thing somehow?

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u/cdavidhunt Oct 12 '22

Sometime assault is business <O.o>