Kiobel still permits individual corporate officers to be sued for international human rights violations.
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The loan was non-recourse meaning that Landow could not be sued personally if he defaulted.
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The company has yet to be sued for liability in the death of those seven patients.
Justices could be sued for discrimination if they conducted traditional marriages and refused to sanction homosexual unions.
Federal circuits are wrestling now with whether private companies can be sued over global warming, for example.
It only mattered that Forbes might be sued by someone with the ability to make good on his threat.
After all, they would not be sued for beating an estimate, but they could be sued for missing one.
The suit against the federal prosecutors was dropped in 2004 after a judge ruled they could not be sued.
That means brokers must put your interests ahead of their firms and can be sued if they wrong investors.
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It also ruled that school districts could be sued for failing to stop sexual harassment of pupils by their classmates.
Once adopted as a standard, such devices become virtually mandatory because doctors can also be sued for not using them.
Ivi founder Todd Weaver pretty much knew he was going to be sued when he started working on Ivi in 2007.
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The law concerning Twitter is clear - if you make a defamatory allegation about someone you can be sued for libel.
The third party (a new phrase, much bandied about in China these days) in a divorce could be sued for damages.
One Scottish university has written to staff warning that they could be sued or dismissed and others are docking lecturers' pay.
The US Supreme Court decision means generic drugmakers cannot be sued for not alerting patients to such risks ( read more here).
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If it guesses too low, it could be sued for misleading investors.
Under EU law, a European firm can already be sued at home for complicity in human-rights violations committed anywhere in the world.
After all, if I do, I might be sued for copyright infringement.
Last month the court decided by 5-4 that schools could be sued for failing to stop sexual harassment of one pupil by another.
Bamboom has yet to be sued but Ivi was sued right out of the gate when it launched its television-over-the-Internet service last year.
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If all of the trust funds are spent, you could be sued by the beneficiaries for what they think they should have received.
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Because, to continue being painfully and boringly obvious, this is the definition of who can be sued: a person, whether legal or natural.
Essex Police is to be sued over its investigation into the death of a man found with multiple injuries in a cement mixer.
Some reports suggested health trusts that failed to involve patients and families in decisions could be sued, while doctors could face being struck off.
No. 2: Even if Sinovel is a Chinese enterprise, it can be sued within the United States if it has offices within our borders.
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The Chamber says companies need to know where they can be sued to predict what sort of liability they will incur by selling products.
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Similarly, the (plaintiffs) argue that the (plaintiffs) are poor, indigenous people of the rain forest who cannot properly be sued in New York.
In actual practice, it is extremely rare that a small developer would ever be sued for infringement by any entity other than a direct competitor.
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