All the things complained of are already against the law – hacking phones and bribing police officers are criminal offences; monstering people accused of crimes is contempt of court; libel and invasion of privacy are actionable in civil law.
"It is likely that certain passages of the Report will be actionable in that they are defamatory of a number of individuals concerned in this matter, including, I understand, Miss Keeler (a person who seems more prone than most to issue writs in order to seek further publicity)." At the last minute, however, he thought better of this particular aside, and struck it out.
The Countrywide complaint, she wrote, presents "the extraordinary case where a company's essential operations are so at odds with the company's public statements that many statements that would not be actionable in the vast majority of cases" can form the basis of a complaint.
Research is acutely needed to generate, collect, and make widely available the evidence needed for determining which variants are actionable, in whom, and in what clinical situations.
However, most recommendations to adapt conservation to climate change have come in the form of general principles and lack the specificity needed to be "actionable" in practice (Heller and Zavaleta 2009).
Employment lawyer Julie Elgar started a blog analyzing each episode for plot developments likely to be actionable if they occurred in real life and estimating the legal bill and/or possible verdict the company would incur should a suit be filed as Michael's former supervisor, Jan Levenson (Melora Hardin) did in one episode, alleging wrongful termination.
You'd say to them, 'Hello, in the real world this is actionable.' In a private company, the owners dictate the culture.
Practicality is clearly a priority for the authors, from their advice to engage in research that is "actionable" (i.e., directly leading to creative changes in practice for instructors) to their inclusion of immediately usable information.
But the key word is actionable -- I'm interested in questions you can act on, to possibly bring about change.
