Business Law week 3 - September 25, 2017

What’s the legal norm for cancelling a class due to heat, standard of reasonableness?
You judge reasonableness by a standard of health and safety,

Freedom of expression and the national anthem, USA football, people taking a knee
during football games, started with kolen kaeprnick he’s not in the league right now,

No guidelines for the national anthem, is he allowed to use that statement to show
political views, you can fire them if the political statement damages the team,
freedom of expression has been raised because a group is making a stand you can
fire them but you need grounds to fire them, if its done without violence or
destruction of their image it must be a decent approach,

You can protest as long as there is no violence or transgressions in our words,

Freedom of expression there is no code of conduct for the national anthem, so the
NFL players are in their legal right

Terry Bradshaw is making a statement about an event related to the game, NFL
reporter talk show, he is commenting on what caused that event

Burning the Canadian flag only illegal if its hate propaganda,

Lucien bouchard leg disease, cartoon making fun of it, it is legal it doesn’t portray
hate

Trump no longer targeting 1 group of muslims, now iran, north Korea, Venezuela

Supreme court about 80 cases a year, you have to petition in front of 3 judges first,
language and aboriginal rights usually supreme court, need to identify importance
of the matter to go to the supreme court

Federal court of appeal highest level of the trial division hears from the lower court,
18 cities, Federal court of appeal,

Canadian military court of Canada

Military law, court marshal appeal court of Canada, all severe infractions by armed
forces, discipline makes an army, once it goes to this court it goes on the criminal
record, when you join the army everyone who joins is in the army they must be self
sufficient, everyone who enlists is a soldier, soldiers in Afghanistan have to shoot in
the barrel to disarm last bullet, an commander didn’t discharge the weapon
properly, is this commander fit to lead,

Captain officer, fighting Taliban, there is a call from Americans to bomb the area,
Taliban is injured and it is 50 degrees outside, would you mercy kill a Taliban
begging to ask to be killed, you have to remove their weapon find their religious
item, never speed up someone last moments, not allowed killing them, must make
their final moments easier, he was dismissed,

No fraternizing in the army, what is the definition of fraternizing, if you are

dismissed from the army you cannot get a job in any public service organization

Court of appeal of Ontario, highest court in Ontario, about 1000 hearings a year,
deals with provincial matters, panel of 3 judges,

Court of Ontario, business court in Ontario, in over 200 locations, over 500000
cases,

Superior court of justice, all civil cases,

Small claims court, don’t need a lawyer

Lori Douglas scandal, because she did not declare the pictures, so they forced her to
retired,