Sentence examples for makers liable for from inspiring English sources

Louisiana, hardly a liberal redoubt, did not make the cut because Senator Mary Landrieu, a Democrat, voted for Senator Manchin's bill and because the city of New Orleans sued to hold gun makers liable for damages back in 1998.

The case would be pursued in the same court where a jury last year found nine gun makers liable for shootings with illegally obtained handguns because marketing practices fostered gun trafficking.

Two other provisions – a proposal that would have prohibited the concealed carrying of firearms on college campuses, and a bill to hold gun makers liable for the violent acts committed by those "negligently entrusted" with assault weapons – were dropped in Colorado after it became clear they lacked political backing.

The gun industry scoffed at this, pointing out that the verdict was a tortured compromise which failed to find gun makers broadly liable for the misuse of their products.The 11-strong jury deliberated for six days, repeatedly pleading with the judge that they were deadlocked.

She gained attention not just as a grieving parent, but also as a leading force and trial witness in a suit in which she and relatives of five other victims killed with illegally obtained handguns sought to hold gun makers collectively liable for the shootings.

So car-makers are liable for defects that enhance the likelihood of injury; and they are expected to add devices to reduce accidents.

In Britain, BSkyB, getting ready for the launch of its 200-channel digital satellite services, ordered 1m decoder boxes.American tobacco companies, under siege from anti-tobacco lawsuits, scored an unexpected victory in a Florida court when a jury found R.J. Reynolds, the country's second-biggest cigarette maker, not liable for the death of a life-long smoker from lung cancer.

Those would have banned concealed weapons from college campuses and would have made some gun makers and dealers liable for deaths and injuries involving their firearms.

Judges in Chicago, Miami and Bridgeport, Conn., have dismissed lawsuits seeking to hold gun makers and retailers liable for the costs of gun violence.

Still, even while some P2P software makers have been held liable for losses that the copyright owners have incurred, more-devious schemes for circumventing apprehension have been invented.

The petition to the Supreme Court comes as a bill called the Inducing Infringement of Copyrights Act of 2004, which would amend federal copyright law to hold makers of a technology liable for the illegal behavior of its users, stalls in the Senate.