I don't doubt McAlary's fortitude, but he did not have the courage to recant his false allegations, much less apologize to the young woman whose life he knowingly damaged at the altar of professional hubris and ambition.
Of course, the exercise of First Amendment rights is subject to some limitations, largely focused on whether their exercise incites "imminent lawless action" or knowingly commits damaging falsehoods.
It found that Vivendi acted recklessly rather than knowingly in causing the damages.
The court ruled that schools are liable for damages when they knowingly fail to respond to severe student-on-student sexual harassment.
A writer or publication can only be found guilty of libel if they knowingly publish false information that damages someone's reputation.
Existing law also makes it a crime to knowingly access and, without permission, alter, damage, delete, destroy, or otherwise use any data, computer, computer system, or computer network in order to devise or execute any scheme or artifice to defraud, deceive, or extort, or wrongfully control or obtain money, property, or data.
Unbelievably, the letters also warned Mr. Pozner that it could collect damages from him for knowingly materially misrepresenting copyrights.
In a series of decisions, Chemerinsky reveals, the Court has decided that prosecutors, police, and prosecutors' investigators cannot be sued for money damages, even if they knowingly and intentionally lie under oath.
Many know they can seek jobs with other departments that will knowingly hire them despite the risk of a possible damage suit for wrongful hiring.
Mr. Smith was sentenced in Federal District Court in Newark on Wednesday to 20 months in prison after his December 1999 guilty plea to a federal charge of knowingly spreading a computer virus with intent to cause damage.
