"The alleged misrepresentation here — that 'light' and 'low tar' cigarettes are not as healthy as advertised — is actionable only because of the effect that smoking light and low-tar cigarettes had" on the plaintiffs' health, Justice Thomas wrote.
While a public nuisance, as such, is actionable only by the state, through criminal proceedings, injunction, or physical abatement, the same activity or conduct may also create a private nuisance to neighbouring landowners and thus result in a civil suit.
"None of what the investigation found was actionable as far as we were concerned," said this board member, describing what he said were his views and those of a number of others among the 41-member board.
To do so effectively and to make any needed adjustments to intervention strategies, health equity assessment tools must provide adequate details about an intervention, including the nuances of which SES segments are reached by program messages as well as when equity results are actionable.
And don't think for a second that the heterosexual community is off the hook since knowing someone who is involved in a GLBT relationship and not turning them in would be actionable as well.
Whenever we could, we tried to ensure that the warnings we issued were actionable and as specific as possible.
The conduct of a business in violation of a zoning ordinance creates a public nuisance, but it also may be actionable as a private nuisance by neighbours who can prove a decrease in the market value of their homes as a result.
The written/spoken words accompanying images will delineate and frame a message but must engage enough so as to create a following who is actionable toward something.
As a result, it is challenging for implementers to determine when concentration indices are actionable and when better targeting of the poor may be needed.
Nowadays, of course, that would be actionable or something".
