"Should Mrs Murphy, or any other publican, use European Economic Area foreign satellite systems to show Premier League football on their premises without our authority and outside the scope of our authorisation, they make themselves liable for us to take action against them in both the civil and criminal courts," the Premier League spokesman.
The government is liable if the employee is acting within the scope of his employment and if the employee would be liable if sued as a private individual under the same circumstances.
This Court has regularly applied a contract-law analogy in defining the scope of conduct for which funding recipients may be held liable in money damages, and in finding a damages remedy available, in private suits under Spending Clause legislation.
Such cases can depend on whether a judge or jury determines that the illegal actions were done within the "scope of employment" and that the employer should be held liable for an employee's actions, Slutkin said.
"Employers are liable for employees' torts committed within the scope of employment.
Law enforcement officers are liable for wrongs done "while acting within the scope of their employment," the solicitor general wrote in his brief, "whether or not they occur during a search, a seizure of evidence, or an arrest".
"Even if an act is willful, reckless or criminal, so long as a person acts within the scope of their employer or in furtherance of business, the employer is liable," Slutkin said.
However, these was sufficient evidence for the jury to find that Eszterhas' writing of the feature was within the scope of his employment at the Plain Dealer and that Forest City Publishing Co. was therefore liable under traditional doctrines of respondeat superior.
Whether they buy instead of building their own would go beyond the scope of this post, but TripHub at launch looks to me like a startup liable to struggle as a stand alone company.
A corporation is liable for any crimes committed by its employees acting within the scope of their employment.
