By not putting the technology in place, Apple has "failed in their social responsibility," said Christopher Kutz, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, who specializes in the moral and legal principles of liability.
Thus if the criminal law should aim to define, to condemn, and to call perpetrators to public account for wrongs whose character and implications are such that they properly count as 'public', its definitions of crimes and its principles of liability must be apt to identify such wrongs and the conditions under which agents can be justly condemned for them.
Under the legal principle of accomplice liability, a defendant can be convicted of murder without being the killer.
The British Joint Stock Companies Act of 1856 established the principle of limited liability for corporations, and indentured servitude and debtors' prisons have been illegal since the 19th century.
There is equally no doubt that the principle of strict liability under the Code; as well as, the well established process for results management and adjudication prevail.
Last year a jury awarded Amber $1 million in damages and, on the principle of vicarious liability, decided that most of that sum had to be paid by the company that had leased Mr. Chilberg his car, the Ford Motor Credit Corporation.
While the principle of strict liability in anti-doping has a long history in sports law -- if it's in your body, you're guilty -- new waters are being charted with the specter of nonanalytic doping code violations.
Anxious to avoid the fate of Arthur Andersen, destroyed by the Enron scandal, Grant Thornton is trying to argue the principle of "local liability" in order to distance itself from its Italian operation.
The main legal hurdle to any common bond issuance or mutual credit guarantee is the principle of national liability for public debt, enshrined in the E.U. treaty's "no bailout" clause.
It accepts the principle of absolute liability, subject to the exception of contributory negligence, providing however that there shall be no right to compensation... if the damage results from the mere fact of passage of the aircraft through the airspace in conformity with existing air traffic regulations.
