Sentence examples for willful breach from inspiring English sources
Therefore, the Justice Department failed to "prove fraudulent intent at the time of contract execution; evidence of a subsequent, willful breach cannot sustain the claim".
Cerberus faces a $100 million penalty, 7 percent of the deal size, if it opts to walk away from the recently announced $1.5 billion purchase of DynCorp and $300 million more for a "willful breach" of the contract.
If the fraud is based on "promises made in a contract, a party claiming fraud must prove fraudulent intent at the time of contract execution; evidence of a subsequent, willful breach cannot sustain the claim".
Well, they're not the only ones capable of doing that, although in Barnes & Noble's case it's more of a technical snafu than a willful breach of user rights.
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon will today, once again, stand before the authors of Dodd-Frank and attempt to make the case for why a $2 billion trading loss was a stupid mistake, not a willful breach of at least the intent of the law.
To make matters worse, the agreement provides that a public statement like Mr. Peace's is a "willful and material breach" of the agreement, which permits the Justice Department to reinstate the charges and pursue a criminal prosecution.
Also, the discloser may want greater monetary compensation to punish the recipient for "willful" or "malicious" breach of the agreement.
"Tortious interference really requires a willful interest in breaching a contract," said Steven M. Davidoff, an assistant professor of law at the Wayne State School of Law.
Critically, the FBI said that other similar cases in which a prosecution had been sought involved evidence of "willful or intentional" breaches of the rules, "vast quantities" of data or "indications of disloyalty or efforts to obstruct justice".
The NDA will define "willful" often as a synonym for "intentional" in order to distinguish it from mere negligent breach.
The breaches, though willful, do not appear to be particularly egregious.
