BMGT 380 Lecture 1: BMGT380 January 31st

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Business and Management
• Course: BMGT 380
• Professor: Gideon Mark

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Bmgt380 january 31st, 2017 notes (lecture 1)-chapter 1. Each state has its own state constitution. Total of 52 and all based on federal constitution. At the federal level it starts off as a bill and if it is passed and signed by president it becomes a law. For state, signed by governor to be law. Model statutes/uniform codes-proposals/suggestions about what laws ought to be. Now there is a ucc in each of the 50 states: 3. Happens if a judge gets a case and there"s no constitutional provision telling the judge what to do, he or she is free to create law. If a judge needs to figure out what to do for a case, and there was a prior case that was similar, he or she should use the prior case to judge this one. Not required to follow precedent if they don"t agree with it and explain why the precedent was poorly decided.