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This book is focused on a broader approach for all assurance providers (including both internal and external auditors) and addresses various advanced concepts that assurance providers need an understanding of.
George W. Jarecke and Nancy K. Plant present a selection of cases
across a broad spectrum of American law to demonstrate that our
society relies inappropriately on the legal system to cure ills the
system was not designed to address.
Jarecke and Plant note that while we in the United States worry
considerably about the problem of individual assumption of
responsibility--whether for personal mistakes, financial setbacks,
or pure bad luck--we appear uneasy about the concept and unclear
about what it means on a daily basis. Not only are we incapable of
accepting personal responsibility; we barely know what it means to
do so.
Mistakenly, we turn to the legal system to solve this dilemma. Yet
our laws as our legislators write them, as judges interpret them,
as lawyers argue them, and as juries apply them send mixed messages
about whether and how we should exercise personal
responsibility.
Each chapter of "Confounded Expectations" features one main case to
explain one legal theory, with other cases noted as examples of
facets of each theory. To demonstrate the law that requires
merchants to guarantee the quality of their products, for example,
Jarecke and Plant discuss the case of the band mothers whose
fund-raising luncheon menu included turkey salad contaminated by
salmonella. Peripheral cases include a horse falsely sold as a
gelding, a riding mower that tipped over when used as instructed,
makeup that was guaranteed to be safe but caused a rash, and pigs
sick with hog cholera.
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