Sentence examples for liable because from inspiring English sources

The Aruanno family has sued the Smithtown district over its open-lunch policy, contending that school officials are liable because, with a just one period for lunch, students were bound to race back to school.

Damrell found that the officials were not liable because they believed they were following the law.

Dr. Zweig said he was not liable because patients were not under his direct care.

Mr. Tyrie had also argued that Juliet should not be held liable because her mother was present; Justice Wooten disagreed.

Ms Ansbacher argues, however, that Generali remains liable because East European governments compensated it for the nationalisations.

The city is potentially liable because of the police department's involvement in bringing proceedings against the students.

Mr. Spitzer might also be liable legally because of how he paid for the club's services.

Legal tradition holds that makers of large cars, pickups and trailer trucks are not liable just because these vehicles inflict severe damage on small cars during crashes.

The company, Kerr-McGee Oil and Gas, was ordered to pay treble damages, or triple the $7.5 million that a jury said in 2007 the company was liable for, because of the false royalty claims it submitted to the federal government.

Governors "do worry that they are personally liable and because they're directors, they may conceivably, if something legally improper happened, get into trouble", says Nick Mackenzie, a partner in the education team at Browne Jacobson and governor at an academy school that converted in 2010.

That decision, issued in August by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco, upheld the notion that makers of a technology with legal uses cannot be held liable simply because some -- or even most -- of its users deploy it to violate a copyright.