Besides, he said, they typically try to dodge liability by saying the photographers were violating company policy if they misbehaved.
The less hard-wired into deal-documentation ratings are, the easier it may be for the industry to argue that its judgments are mere opinions, protected by free-speech laws, and to dodge liability for flawed ratings.It is one thing to identify the shortcomings of ratings, quite another to find alternative standards that are clearly better.
This highlights again how Monday's decision is, for the LAPD and other police departments making similar calls, a matter of dodging liability more than ensuring the fair treatment of undocumented immigrants.
Though health coverage for student athletes has generally improved, colleges have historically managed to dodge liability for on-field injuries, and some athletes have had to bear crushing medical bills as a result.
They even have a number of advantages over ordinary people - specifically, corporations can be in two or more places at once (so cannot be jailed) and can divide themselves to dodge liability for their crimes.
Their employer, M&R Marketing, went into liquidation before the final hearing and dodged its liability.
This is another attempt to stop unfairness in the tax system, with added penalties on accountants who help people to try to dodge their liabilities.
We need to prevent banks from avoiding settlements in order to dodge this personal liability.
The extraordinary prospect of senior figures dodging their alleged liability for abductions and torture by deploying the "foreign act of state doctrine" in criminal proceedings emerged during a civil claim brought by Libyan and Pakistani former detainees.
The archdiocese made a dreadful situation worse when it opted to act like a corporation dodging a product liability claim in handling suits filed by people who reported being assaulted by priests when they were young.
When Northern Rock was in trouble last autumn, tax researchers like Richard Murphy exposed the array of special investment vehicles, special purpose vehicles, offshore trusts and other exotic financial models that were used by all banks to dodge tax, hide liabilities and generally use every trick in the book to maximise profit in the short term.
