Why are trustees who are already saddled with liability more likely to evade tax than an individual?
While Thingiverse cannot be saddled with liability as long as there are sufficient non-infringing uses for its platform, "this Supreme Court has not defined sufficient non-infringing use," warns Ginsburg, whose mother, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, serves on the Court.
America's PBGC, already saddled with liabilities from the likes of Bethlehem Steel and US Airways, has a deficit of $9.7 billion which it thinks could exceed $18 billion by 2013.
To saddle the defendant with liability where the loss of profit is due to special circumstances the court must be able to draw the inference that those circumstances have been brought to the notice of the defendant.
He argues that being saddled with greater liability would give manufacturers greater incentive to monitor the behavior of their retailers.
"For minorities still holding the stock, they need to know Yukos will be saddled with tax liabilities, and the new majority owner could be the state".
The Spanish firm Abengoa has narrowly escaped bankruptcy for now, but like SunEdison it's saddled with heavy liabilities and dubious paths for paying them off. .
At various points during talks, the Lebedev camp has played hardball, threatening to walk away from the negotiating table, leaving INM saddled with a huge liability.
The charity should ensure it can be terminated should the venture not work out to avoid being saddled with a potential liability in years to come.
GC filed for bankruptcy protection last month, and Harcourt General was saddled with a $100 million liability because it guaranteed some of the movie theater leases, further lowering the company's price.
What they haven't talked much about is that the merged company could be saddled with a huge liability.
