1. You need to read case 4 on page 172 in our book Thinking Critically about Ethical Issues.
CASE 4. A California Superior Court judge ordered a Sacramento woman to stop smoking around her 5-year-old son. The decision came during a custody dispute. The boy’s father claimed that breathing secondhand smoke could harm the boy’s health. Do moral considerations support the judge’s ruling?
2. Your Written Case Analysis on this case needs to be at least 200 words. One thing you need to do is identify the parties at stake and the moral issues at stake.
3. In addition to talking about the parties at stake and the moral issues at stake in this case, you need to do one more thing. You need to think about the rights involved in this case. To do that, do two things. First, think about the woman in this case, the boy involved, and the boy’s father. What rights do these people have that are relevant to this case? Moreover, are the rights that these people have able to be exercised freely, or are any of them being violated or broken? Second, from the point of view of the rights of the different parties involved, discuss whether you think the judge’s decision was justified or not.
4. Your essay needs to use proper MLA documentation.
