Law 310 Week 1 Assignment DeVry University Professor Crowder (2 Pages 728 Words)

1. Resolve this ethical dilemma posed by Carl Kaufmann of Du Pont: Assume that federal health investigators are pursuing a report that one of your manufacturing plants has a higher-than-average incidence of cancer among its employees. The plant happens to keep excellent medical records on all its employees, stretching back for decades, which might help identify the source of the problem. The government demands the files. But if the company turns them over, it might be accused of violating the privacy of all those workers who had submitted to private medical exams. The company offers an abstract of the records, but the government insists on the complete files, with employee names. Then the company tries...