If the FDIC investigation finds that the bank executives engaged in fraud in a misguided attempt to sustain the bank as a going concern, their activities, albeit wrongful, might still be judged within the scope of their employment because they did, at least for a time, confer a benefit on the bank.

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At a large company, your assignments or projects are likely to be contained within the scope of the team of which you are a member, and likely to some subsection of that scope that has been chosen for you.

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It would be for the courts to decide case by case whether alleged offences fell within the scope of the bill, he said.

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It also means that university officials whose positions and salaries correspond to governing academic institutions will also be tasked with overseeing operations that only nominally fall within the scope of their other duties.

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In fairness, the new written notice would only be required to be handed to independent contractors whom you hire on a regular and ongoing basis, and only within the scope of your trade or business.

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The individual mandate, by contrast, vests Congress with the extraordinary ability to create the necessary predicate to the exercise of an enumerated power and draw within its regulatory scope those who would otherwise be outside of it.

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We also sought nominations of rules that needed to be extended or expanded and, in an important innovation, included guidance documents and paperwork requirements as well as rules within the scope of the solicitation.

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