Only when all the above conditions are met are physicians exempted from criminal liability.
Recently, it backed a bill that would change the penal law to exempt from criminal liability the possession of syringes with drug residue by people in needle exchange programs, who are sometimes arrested despite the fact that they are authorized to carry syringes, Mr. Bethos said.
ivi believes that by retransmitting freely-available, over-the-air broadcasts and offering basic DVR-like services, it is nothing more than a passive carrier and exempt from copyright liability.
That's why federal law exempts them from liability for nearly everything their users post independently – even fraud or defamation.
In addition, they said, the case should be dismissed because the defendants did not write the comments, but only published them, exempting them from liability under the Communications Decency Act.
Nevada, New York and at least a dozen other states have passed laws to exempt people from liability when they use a defibrillator to save someone.
The rules are unlikely to completely satisfy concerns of the U.S. government, which signed a landmark civilian nuclear agreement with India in 2006, and American vendors like General Electric, which have lobbied for India to exempt suppliers from liability.
Aaron McKown, a lawyer representing GoDaddy, which has filed an appeal contending that Section 230 of the federal Communications Decency Act exempts it from liability for posted material, said in an e-mail that the company does not comment on pending legislation.
The Xinhua news agency linked the episode to a perception of declining morals "as profit and materialism are perceived to be affecting society's values": A strong chorus of opinion on the Internet says laws should exempt Samaritans from liability, yet laws themselves cannot solve society's morality dilemma.
