That strategy, the complaint says, would let BET "evade liability for withholding of taxes from wages of these employees".
"The Paycheck Fairness Act closes numerous loopholes that have enabled employers to evade liability," said Ms. DeLauro, the chief sponsor of that bill.
I asked Representative Barney Frank, the Massachusetts Democrat whose name is on the 2010 financial reform legislation, if he was concerned that the S.E.C.'s inaction was enabling ratings agencies to evade liability.
Gerald H. Silk, who also represents the plaintiffs, said: "Corporate fiduciaries cannot expect to evade liability by blaming a general market downturn when there is specific and systematic misconduct taking place right beneath their noses".
Meanwhile, the fierce determination of not only the U.S., but also France and Russia to evade liability for their nuclear suppliers (India is buying reactors from all three countries as payoff for entry into the nuclear club) has convinced many Indians that the plants must be unsafe.
To evade potential liability, they threatened to freeze the markets for asset-backed securities by refusing to allow their ratings to be quoted in S.E.C. filings.
has made such a concerted effort to evade its liability for the pollution, and the public is aware of that, and the public is skeptical".
It's worth considering that just as Big Tobacco did before it, these chemical companies just might possibly be relying upon concealment of its documents from the public under intellectual property law to avoid liabilities and to evade regulation.
A6 A List of Tax Shelters The 29-member Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development issued a list of 35 places, mostly exotic island getaways, that have tax laws intended to attract assets from companies and people who want to evade tax payments or potential tax liabilities in their home countries.
