Sentence examples for common law duties from inspiring English sources
Whether relating to the labeling of cigarettes or the manufacture of medical devices, state common law damages actions operate to require manufacturers to comply with common law duties.
The HSBC case seeks $10 billion based on the bank's alleged breach of common law duties for failing to monitor Mr. Madoff or make any effort to protect investors.
The trustee's claims against the owners of the New York Mets, Fred Wilpon and Irving Katz, would not be directly affected by Judge Rakoff's ruling because that case involves claims for fraudulent conveyances and not breach of any common law duties.
He adds: "If employers permit an intimidating, hostile or offensive environment to persist in their workplace, they could be in breach of common law duties of care to their employees, or of their responsibilities under the health and safety legislation to provide a safe environment and other express or implied contractual duties".
Counsel for the government, James Eadie, told the court that Grayling was "under no statutory or common law duty to consult".
And I am not prepared to declare a common law duty to wear seat belts while traveling in motor vehicles.
In addition, the common law duty of loyalty or fiduciary duty might restrict the use of the information to the disadvantage of the former client.
These low-level bits may not be covered by the common law duty to preserve documents, but their preservation can be enforced by a specific order.
Mr. Ridder violated both a state law against misappropriation of trade secrets, and "his common law duty of loyalty to The Pioneer Press," the judge wrote, adding, "plaintiffs have suffered irreparable harm".
The court held that, since there is no statutory or common law duty to wear seat belts in routine travel, the defendant had alleged no facts which would constitute contributory negligence or breach of the duty to minimize damages.
To conclude that tort liability exists solely because the defendant did not perform a contractual duty to remove snow and ice would give rise to a common law duty which we repeatedly have declined to impose on landowners.
