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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The incentives, if you know you are going to be sued, are to deny or hide the papers or obfuscate or delay and that doesn't help safety because we never learn from it.
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Servicers can now carry on with business as usual and wait to be sued rather than being forced to fess up to their faults.
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But it also got money from big tech companies, which got both an equity stake in the fund and a license for certain patents so they would be less likely to be sued by patent trolls.
To be sure, the 2005 law enacted by Congress makes it difficult for firearm companies to be sued over the misuse of their products.
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It also ruled that school districts could be sued for failing to stop sexual harassment of pupils by their classmates.
Last month the court decided by 5-4 that schools could be sued for failing to stop sexual harassment of one pupil by another.
Justices ruled in 2011 that makers of generic drugs cannot be sued for failing to warn consumers of the possible side effects of their products if they copy the exact warnings on the brand-name equivalents of the medicines as required by federal law.
Kiobel still permits individual corporate officers to be sued for international human rights violations.
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The company has yet to be sued for liability in the death of those seven patients.
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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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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Essex Police is to be sued over its investigation into the death of a man found with multiple injuries in a cement mixer.
He also opposes a "NOPEC" provision in both the Senate and House versions that would allow members of OPEC to be sued for violating U.S. anti-trust laws.
In fact, some analysts say that Johansen is going to have a tough time marketing this technology without potential clients worrying that they might be sued by Apple if they try to use it, so it may come down to who has the deeper pockets here.
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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It only mattered that Forbes might be sued by someone with the ability to make good on his threat.
No accounting firm wants to be investigated or sued because of a financial misstatement, and restatements and investigations frequently result in a change in auditors.
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But such individuals will be increasingly unwilling to accept directorships if they anticipate that they will be sued for damages every time the corporation runs afoul of a regulatory requirement.
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Once again, it's sending out hundreds of letters telling students they may be sued, part of a new attempt to stop them from illegally sharing music on university computer networks.
Companies have been sucessfully sued for allowing offensive jokes to be told, posters to be displayed, even for books or magazines to be brought into the office.
In a statement, AAJ President Gibson Vance advocated passage of a bill pending in Congress that would require foreign manufacturers to designate a U.S. agent to accept service should they be sued here.
One Scottish university has written to staff warning that they could be sued or dismissed and others are docking lecturers' pay.
As a result, the Obama campaign sued Ohio, saying all residents should be able to vote early, not just those in the military.
The letters warned individuals they will be sued for copywriting infringement but offers them a chance to resolve the matter in advance for a discounted penalty.
The Court held that while all "primary actors"--those who were directly part of a scheme (the emphasis is mine) to defraud investors--can be sued for federal securities fraud, the "secondary actors" who aided and abetted the fraud cannot be sued.
Gittins realized that if there was a chance that Blurb might be sued for copyright infringement the company would never be able to raise venture capital.
Corporate directors and executives can be sued and even face criminal liability if the company fails to properly disclose business risks--including, many now worry, the cost of emissions.
In 1997, Casey Martin, a professional golfer with a circulatory disorder, sued under the American with Disabilities Act to be allowed to use a golf cart to play in the U.S. Open.
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