The Legal Environment of Business: Text and Cases
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Author: Frank B. Cross; Roger LeRoy Miller
Publisher: Cengage Learning US
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Case summary: A company TI develops and makes electronic control devices called stun guns. The company also makes TASER CAM which is a personal audio and video recording device. A person SW is TI’s vice president of marketing. The person SW made his own business plan of marketing a clip-on camera and formed a company V, and thereafter resigned from the company TI. The company TI launched a new product A after ten months of the resignation of SW. The company TI filed a suit against SW in an Arizona state court alleging that he is liable for breach of loyalty to TI.
To explain : Breach of duty owed to the employer and breach of duty of loyalty.
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