Sentence examples for Known duty from inspiring English sources

Beyond that, "the rink has no known duty to protect the spectator in relation to risk in the sport," Leebron said.

Where directors fail to act in the face of a known duty to act, thereby demonstrating a conscious disregard for their responsibilities, they breach their duty of loyalty by failing to discharge that fiduciary obligation in good faith.

Thus, to establish oversight liability a plaintiff must show that the directors knew they were not discharging their fiduciary obligations or that the directors demonstrated a conscious disregard for their responsibilities such as by failing to act in the face of a known duty to act.

However, the medium access layer protocols rely on the well-known duty-cycling schemes, which require a trade-off between power consumption and latency for message transfer from the gateway to the nodes.

Among their lesser-known duties, Mr. Quinto and the firm review the show's script each year, managing the delicate balance between funny, inappropriate and illegal.

It is also a collection of all things "stewardess" from the highly visible and well-studied evolution of their uniforms (of course!) to the historic and little-known duties that were once part of the job, such as cleaning out on-board lavatories and fishing out the dentures passengers accidently upchucked into vomit cups.

Accordingly, I find that "willfully," when used in 17 U.S.C. § 506(a), means a "voluntary, intentional violation of a known legal duty". Cheek, ___ U.S. at ___, 111 S.Ct. at 610.

I am persuaded that under 17 U.S.C. § 506(a) "willfully" means that in order to be criminal the infringement must have been a "voluntary, intentional violation of a known legal duty". Cheek, ___ U.S. at ___, 111 S.Ct. at 610.

The Manual recognizes that in tax cases and odometer fraud cases "willfully" should be defined as, "An act is done 'willfully' if done voluntarily and intentionally with the purpose of violating a known legal duty". Id. (citations omitted).

The IRM defines the test "willfulness" in the FBAR context as a determination of whether there was "a voluntary, intentional violation of a known legal duty".[iii] The burden of establishing willfulness is on the IRS and may be demonstrated by the person's knowledge of the reporting requirements and the person's conscious choice not to comply with the requirements.

The framers imported the well-known fiduciary duty of loyalty from the common law precisely to constrain the exercise of the president's powers under the Constitution.