The Legal Environment of Business: Text and Cases (MindTap Course List)
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Author: Frank B. Cross, Roger LeRoy Miller
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 28, Problem 2IS
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Case summary: Person LE is an officer in a company MOI. LE acknowledged, that the company’s geologist has discovered a new deposit of oil.
To find: The buying of stock by LE after knowing the information.
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