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What administrative agency regulates pesticides, insecticides, fungicides and rodenticides?a. The Food and Drug Administration.
b. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
c. The EPA.
d. All the above.
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a. Department of Commerce.
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a. the CPSC can impose civil penalties on the company.
b. the CPSC can impose criminal penalties on the company.
c. users can sue for damages, including attorney's fees, if MoneyMaker knew it was violating a consumer product safety rule when it produced the guns.
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a. Yes, under the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act (FACTA), Grady can place an alert in his credit files using the National Fraud Alert System.
b. Yes, under the Fair Credit Billing Act he may call the credit card company to complain about the bill, and the credit card company must investigate and correct any errors.
c. Yes, under the Truth in Lending Act, Grady is liable only for the first $50 in unauthorized charges.
d. No, he should have been more careful with his personal information so no one could have applied for credit in his name.
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c. Mabel has a right to have the information regarding her delinquency in paying a few loans stricken from her credit record because her record has generally been good.
d. Mabel's only legal remedy, if there is erroneous information in her credit file, is to report the problem to the FTC for enforcement.
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This agreement violates the:
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b. Clayton Act.
c. Robinson-Patman Act.
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A major motion picture distributor offers to provide a television station with three very popular, desirable films. However, as part of the agreement, the distributor requires that the television station also purchase four films that are not very desirable. This type of arrangement is called a:
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b. reverter arrangement.
c. joint custody arrangement.
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a. is legal and acceptable practice in the construction industry to spread work more evenly.
b. is a per se violation of the Sherman Act.
c. is a rule of reason violation of the Sherman Act.
d. violates ethical, but not legal, standards.
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b. the invention must be nonobvious.
c. the invention must be commercially valuable.
d. the invention must be useful.
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