An acquiescent Congress enacted the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act of 2005, which barred negligence lawsuits against gun makers and dealers for crimes committed with their products.
There is, she explains, "quite a high bar for negligence".
To top it all off, businesses rig the arbitration process against consumers and employees by barring them from going to court if there's any fraud or negligence before a dispute occurs, and only the company can choose the arbitrator.
In 2005, Congress passed a law barring victims of gun violence from suing firearms manufacturers and dealers for negligence, part of the NRA's shift toward representing the interests of gunmakers over gun owners.
It insisted the social workers responsible ("this disgusting lot") should be sacked, prosecuted for negligence and barred from working with children again.
There is also some risk that BP, because it has admitted a variety of felonies and negligence, may be barred from further contracting with the United States government.
It is a civil wrong to cause injury to another by negligence in driving a vehicle, but the claim is barred or reduced if the negligent conduct of the person injured is also a cause of the injury.
The Senate Republicans and the Bush administration want to bar victims of terrorism from bringing negligence lawsuits against businesses or the government.
After Connor's death, she was told that the trust could not be charged with this because the bar for gross negligence had not been met.
Not that I have issues or anything, but wouldn't two pages describing America's "scariest" fun-park rides — making them all sound so implacably safe and sturdy — pale beside rousing tales of derailment, decapitation, safety bar malfunction and negligence (riders flung into the beyond, or suspended upside down 125 feet above ground)?
