Math 209 chapter 4 quiz

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Business - General Business
Week 2: Administrative Regulations - Discussion
Too much regulation - or not enough? (graded)
On pages 209 through 213, your textbook has a series of
cases and problems, most of which have been taken from
real cases in the United States regulatory world of business.
Each case has a unique feature to it, and provides future
business leaders with guidance about the landmines which
await when the government gets in line to attempt to
regulate your business. Every day, profitable businesses meet
hurdles of regulation which happen seemingly "out of the
blue." Yet, under the Administrative Procedures Act (which
exists at the federal level as well as in many if not most
states, which have their own acts), rules of publication and
due process do come into play. Savvy business leaders stay in
front of these new and proposed regulations through many
avenues, which we will explore and discuss this week, along
with a fact scenario.
As way of background, let us take you through a few of the
cases in the book. First, problem seven, page 211, Chapter 6:
In 1994, the company which owned Hooked on Phonics,
Gateway Educational Products, Inc., entered into an agreed
settlement with the FTC whereby they agreed not to make
claims about how their product assisted young readers
without proof from extensive research which supported their

2. advertising claims. This was despite results from a yearlong
study of several first-grade classrooms which showed vast
improvement in students' reading skills. (Nathans, 1994)
The FDA regulates new drugs and medical procedures for the
U.S., as discussed in your textbook problem number eight,
page 211, Chapter 6. However, the FDA's control is limited by
law. The U.S. Dept of Health and Human Services is the
federal dept to which the FDA reports. You can review the
FDA's role in Lasik surgery on their very extensive website
found at http://www.fda.gov (FDA role page:
http://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/ProductsandMedicalPro
cedures/SurgeryandLifeSupport/LASIK/ucm061319.htm) On
their website, you will find a plethora of information about
the reach of this federal agency.
The FAA is the agency within the U.S. Department of
Transportation which regulates flight in the U.S. In 1988, the
FAA stated that parachuting would be illegal in the San Diego
Terminal Control Area and the courts ruled that the FAA had
failed to comply with the Administrative Procedures Act
when making the regulation, and overruled the FAA order.
(See: http://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/
F2/887/966/342988/) After reviewing the case, you
will see that the court was not concerned so much with the
substance of the order, but how it was created.
In 1992, the Wall Street Journal ran an article about how
much regulation on circuses was causing them to shut down,
disappoint their audiences, and putting them out of business.
Along with federal regulations, each state, county, and city
had significant numbers of regulations which caused much
difficulty in moving from state to state with animals,
performers young, old, and foreign. We know most of you

3. won't start circuses on your own - but what you learn from
this exercise can be applied to nearly every business you can
imagine, whether existing or startup.
For our thread this week, we will cover administrative
business regulations in a research mode. Taking the example
of how complicated it can be to run a circus across state
lines, we are going to become the GM520 Travelling Circus
this week. As a team, we will research and overcome multiple
regulatory hurdles to running, owning and travelling with our
circus. The head ringleader, your Professor, will provide you
with multiple changes and questions throughout the week, as
the circus travesty unfolds. Along with questions about the
circus, you will also be looking at other government
regulations which are current in the news, and discussing
them here. Let's get started with this question. Our circus is
incorporated in the state of Maine, and operates with 52 full
time employees who travel throughout the sites together in
motor homes and trailer truck rigs. The ages of the workers
range from 5 to 85 and we have a number of live animals
which travel with us: 3 white tigers, 2 male and 2 female
elephants, one of whom is pregnant, and one baby elephant,
40 dogs, 10 horses, and one lion. Our lion tamer is from
Africa, and she is neither a U.S. citizen, nor does she have a
green card. (oops). We serve food at all circuses, but we
utilize local vendors for that. In Springfield, one of the
vendors serves beer, although none of our other locations
serve alcohol. We bought an old cruise ship for our trip to
London. Our captain is an independent contractor hired
specifically for our crossings.
We will perform this year in 4 places: Atlanta Georgia;
Springfield IL; Bangor Maine; and London England (TCO I).

4. What laws, administrative and municipal rules, agencies,
permits, town rules, administrative and federal bodies, etc
will we have to appease to be able to take our circus to each
place? Child labor laws? Do they apply if all of our workers
are children of other employees? What if they are children of
the owners? Can they be trapeze artists?
What regulatory hurdles will we have to overcome to
transport our animals from state to state and overseas?
Will International laws apply to us?
We'll try to find every regulation and permit requirement we
will have for our circus and then decide if there are too many
regs or not... Pick one of the listed towns or places, a state or
country, and try to find at least one permit we'll need or
regulation we'll be subject to. Using Web Research or even
your telephone, bring the link or information back here and
tell us about it...how much do you think it will cost and how
do we comply? Remember - we'll need to review the local,
municipal, state and federal laws as they will all apply!
Throughout the week, your Professor will add to this - have
fun! Let's get started!
References:
Marsh, B (8/31/92) Bunting red tape: The modern circus
walks a high wire The Wall Street Journal, pp. A1, A4. (An
excerpt from this article was reprinted by permission in the
8th edition of Marianne Jennings textbook - but removed
from our 9th ed.)
Nathans, A. (12/15/94) Hooked on Phonics settles with FTC
on advertising claims. Los Angeles Times. Accessed at:
http://articles.latimes.com/1994-12-15/news/mn-
9369_1_hooked-on-phonics-program on April 6, 2012.
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