This week, this assignment will cover Chapters $1.$ On Wednesday, we will also begin to talk about Chapter $2,$ and the American court system, and great concepts like jurisdiction and standing will be covered. The primary assignment won't occur until next Monday, but there are two quick Cengage exercises to do before Wednesday's class. So$,$ we begin:

$1.$ Tell me $5$ purposes of business laws.

$2.$ Tell me the $6$ primary sources of business laws.

$3.$ Tell me what the principle of stare decisis means and if the Supreme Court is following precedent these days.

$4.$ Tell me what the common law is and what that means.

$5.$ In this assignment, I want you to first read the Appendix to Chapter $1,$ which is about "finding" the law, and then answer the following about these "citations" to the law. Tell me what these mean $($just say "this is a publication of a City of Irvine law, or a case of the Superior Court" $($name the court, please$)$ or something like that$)$:

$.$ a$.18$ USC Section $2383($what is this, what law is this, and what is it about?$)$