Sentence examples for establishing liability from inspiring English sources

He said an indictment or trial could help the state's lawsuit by revealing new information or establishing liability.

The company insists that three months is a perfectly usual timescale for establishing liability, but admits "we have delayed matters unnecessarily".

In Vivendi a class that consisted primarily of foreign investors was successful in establishing liability, creating a potential $9 billion judgment against Vivendi.

Second, establishing liability may be hard, because market timing is not always illegal and because some investors who traded in and out of funds quickly did not intend to engage in market timing.

By contrast, the court has long accepted disparate impact as a basis for establishing liability under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the basic federal law prohibiting race and sex discrimination in employment.

THE STATE LAW CLAIMS In their amended complaint, the plaintiff states assert that the same facts establishing liability under Section Section 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act mandate a finding of liability under analogous provisions in their own laws.

Autopsy reports often are presented as evidence in civil suits seeking to establish liability.

The court ruled several years ago that mere exposure to asbestos was not sufficient to establish liability under federal law.

To establish liability of the defendants under RICO, the government had to prove that the companies engaged in a pattern of racketeering acts in a scheme to defraud.

A recent controversial ruling at the ICTY required 'specific direction', making it harder to establish liability on aiding and abetting by high-level perpetrators".

Hundreds of millions of dollars are at stake, since those readings will be used by the federal government and courts to establish liability claims against BP.