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Legal Concepts In Business Managerial Settings Paper
Legal Concepts in Business Managerial Settings

LAW 531
January 13, 2014

Legal Concepts in Business Management Settings
The case Team B chose to study and analyze is Beckman v Match.com. Mary Kay Beckman joined Match.com and dated another Match.com client, Wade Mitchell Ridley, for a short time. Following the break-up Ridley began harassing Beckman by sending threatening text messages. The harassment escalated to violence and resulted in Ridley attacking Beckman in her home, repeatedly stabbing and kicking her. Beckman was seriously injured and hospitalized and ultimately filed a lawsuit against Match.com, claiming five causes of action including one federal law claim for deceptive trade practices (Yip, 2013). The team studied the legal concepts of the case and how they can be applied within a business managerial setting. …show more content…
Match.com where the Communications Decency Act was upheld by the court in favor of Match.com; managers should examine liability obligations as well as laws protecting or defending their business. Applying a defense against negligence in a business managerial setting involves managers researching laws providing immunization against negligent allegations. According to the article, what is Negligence and how do I Defend against Negligence? Possible defenses against negligence include "(1) challenging the status of the plaintiff and the corresponding duty of care, (2) asserting that it acted in accordance to the requisite standard of care, (3) attacking the causal link between act or omission and harm or injury, or (4) questioning whether the plaintiff suffered any actual loss" (Inc., 2014). Some states also maintain the doctrine of contributory negligence prohibiting a plaintiff from recovering the percent of damages which he is at fault. Therefore, in a business managerial setting knowledge of specific state laws is a necessity and possible legal risk involved within the
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