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"was found liable" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when describing a situation in which someone or something has been held legally responsible for a wrongdoing or debt. Example: The company was found liable for misrepresenting their products and was subsequently fined for its deceitful actions.
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Rutan's company was found liable and fined $25,870.
*An earlier version of this article stated that Tourre was found guilty; he was found liable.
He was found liable on six counts of civil securities fraud.
He has been arrested once, and was found liable by a civil jury for shooting a man to death.
Thomas was found liable on Browne Sanders's hostile-environment claim, but the jury did not award punitive damages against him.
She said that may be because the killings he was found liable for in civil court were crimes of passion.
The company was found liable, but not its executives, according to the verdict in United States District Court in Manhattan.
Mr. Zeltser disputed all the accusations against him in that case, but was found liable and eventually assessed about $2 million in damages -- damages that remain unpaid.
To be clear – Lutfur Rahman was found liable for other transgressions of the law and on those I have no particular comment.
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In August, Tourre was found liable*.
Corby Borough Council, responsible for the reclamation of a former steelworks blamed for the defects, was found liable today at London's High Court.
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