Sentence examples for imposing liability in from inspiring English sources

This Article considers the possibility of imposing liability in torts for a wrongfully created risk of future harm.

The majority acknowledged that imposing liability in an in-home setting would encourage the institutionalization of patients with violent tendencies.

Imposing liability in this case, Justice Stevens said, "implicates the core purposes of the First Amendment because it imposes sanctions on the publication of truthful information of public concern".

But the Government contends that the language of § 2674 (and the implications of § 2680) imposing liability 'in the same manner and to the same extent as a private individual under like circumstances * * *' must be read as excluding liability in the performance of activities which private persons do not perform.

The "Superfund" law imposed liability in such a way that property owners and even their banks could be held responsible for contamination caused decades earlier by somebody else.

In addition, many courts, concluding that § 20(a)'s "controlling person" provisions, 15 U.S.C. 78t, are not the exclusive source of secondary liability under the Exchange Act, have imposed liability in § 10(b) actions based upon respondeat superior and other common-law agency principles.

The Anslinger court also discussed, in dictum, the policy against imposing liability on hosts in social or quasi-business settings.

Some legal experts expressed concern about the Fifth Circuit opinion, saying there was a danger in imposing liability on law enforcement agents.

Regarding intention or carelessness, the common-law systems have for various reasons been slower than the civil-law systems in imposing liability for inaction.

As a practical matter, legal responsibility must be limited to those causes which are so closely connected with the result and of such significance that the law is justified in imposing liability" (footnote omitted)).

"As a practical matter, legal responsibility must be limited to those causes which are so closely connected with the result and of such significance that the law is justified in imposing liability.