The three-judge appeals panel ruled that Delta was potentially liable for maintaining a hostile work environment because it had done nothing in response to previous complaints by two other flight attendants that Mr. Young had also raped them.
Mr. Giddens also suggested holding directors and officers liable for maintaining controls on customer money, and getting rid of loopholes that enabled MF Global to tap customer money by overestimating overseas customer funds.
"We question the constitutionality of holding a secured lender or a servicer as liable for maintaining that property," Linda Koch, president and CEO of the Illinois Bankers Association, told HuffPost in August, adding that banks can't be considered legal owners of the property until a foreclosure is complete.
During the 19th century, the common law principle that a landlord could not be liable for letting a poorly maintained house was established, while a long-running principle was that, in practice, builders could not be sued for constructing defective buildings.
The role of insurance companies in determining our healthcare choices will be harder to question, the labor protections that currently exist will be increasingly difficult to maintain, and struggles to hold corporations liable for their actions will become more challenging.
In response, state legislators made expunction notifications automatic and paperless and held anyone maintaining the data criminally liable for updating it.
Some people are liable for taxes in two states because they maintain two homes, Mr. Benson said.
In this manner, the officials said, Moscow felt it would no longer be liable for millions of dollars in costs required to maintain the incomplete installation.
News Group Newspapers, the News International subsidiary that published the now-defunct News of the World, maintains that it is not liable for his legal bills over the phone-hacking affair.
More serious crimes seem likelier to occur on sites that encourage users to engage in IRL interactions – Uber, for instance, has maintained that it's not liable for any actions committed by its drivers, which the company considers to be independent contractors, not full employees.
By Justinian's time, the scheme was simpler: instead of complementing actions for manifest and non-manifest theft, handling stolen goods, or concealing them made one instead liable for non-manifest theft, whose two-times penalty was maintained.
