Sentences with phrase «cause economic harm»

(And how can there possibly be a scientific consensus that we can not adapt to any changes that might occur, or that controlling greenhouse gas emissions would not cause economic harm?)

We continue to challenge parties responsible for wrongful conduct that causes economic harm.

A.I. Enterprises Ltd. v. Bram Enterprises Ltd., 2014 SCC 12 (34863) The tort should be kept within narrow bounds, and be available in three party situations where the defendant commits an unlawful act against a third party that intentionally causes economic harm to the plaintiff.

Not exact matches

«Daily fantasy sports companies are engaged in illegal gambling under New York law, causing the same kinds of social and economic harms as other forms of illegal gambling, and misleading New York consumers... Daily fantasy sports is neither victimless nor harmless, and it is clear that DraftKings and FanDuel are the leaders of a massive, multi-billion-dollar scheme intended to evade the law and fleece sports fans across the country.

would cause major uncertainty and serious economic harm to Canada and Mexico.

«The associations urge President Trump to avoid any decision which would do harm to so many downstream steel manufacturing companies and other steel consumers, our employees, and our customers, with little or no additional protection to the basic steel industry, while at the same time causing great economic harm to numerous other sectors of the US economy.»

Worse, in allying themselves with conservative interests, people at and near the bottom wind up supporting economic causes» privatization, low taxes, deregulation» that objectively do them harm.

He questioned the view that we need not be concerned with heavy concentration, instead preferring «standard economic wisdom» that «mergers resulting in high levels of concentration in markets with substantial barriers to entry will usually reduce competition and cause harm to consumers and our economy.»

There are a few exceptions: If you're in the highest paid 10 percent of wage earners at your company and your manager can show that your absence would cause substantial economic harm to the organization, you can be denied «restoration,» which is the guarantee that you can return to the same or an equivalent job.

Most Americans had no idea that «pink slime» was in 70 % of our nation's ground beef supply until widespread news reports exposed that fact last spring, and it was evidently such an unwelcome surprise that stores began dropping the product in response, causing serious economic harm to its manufacturers.

There are a few exceptions: Your employer isn't required to keep your job open for you if you're in the highest - paid 10 percent of wage earners at your company and your employer can show that your absence would cause substantial economic harm to the organization.

«The Governor is evaluating all options, including legislation, the state's authority to review coastal consistency, and other legal challenges to prevent the egregious environmental and economic harm the federal government's proposal would cause.»

The result was a series of catastrophic policies (like the cultural revolution) that caused great harm (from purges of opponents, economic dislocation and famine).

Cuomo's inaction on hydrofracking has angered both supporters of the technique — who say it could inject economic life into the state's long - struggling Southern Tier — and opponents, who say it could cause irreparable harm to the state's water, air and human health.

The researchers point out that their calculations did not include the health and economic harms caused by second hand smoke or smokeless forms of tobacco, and that their estimates of lost productivity applied only to those who were economically active.

But others feared a listing would cause massive economic harm in the 11 western states where the bird lives, and fuel political efforts to gut the law.

Unlike some other social media experiments, a flawed public health monitoring program can cause serious physical and economic harm to large numbers of people.

«Beyond the terrible economic harm to citizens around the world, sellers of binary options are causing increasing, accelerating ruinous damage to Israel and are inflaming anti-Semitism and anti-Israel feeling,» commented Israel Securities Authority Chairman Shmuel Hauser after the bill was advanced.

EHV - 1 and EHV - 4 can cause significant economic harm to the U.S. equine industry.2 An outbreak of EHV - 1 at the Hawthorne Race Course in suburban Chicago in October 2012 resulted in four confirmed cases, two horse deaths and numerous quarantines, prompting officials to cancel a day of racing.

If a city that is the economic engine of a state can not find support for its chosen path to clearing its streets of traffic estimated to cause billions of dollars in lost productivity, that doesn't bode well for a world with astonishingly variegated nations trying to find a common path to limit climate risks without harming economies.

Adam Smith also had some choice things to say about what we now call perverse economic subsidies and the ecological harm they cause.

In addition to the harm caused to individuals and communities, these impacts carry significant economic consequences.

This would force leaders to abandon policies already causing serious social and economic harm and develop policies based on proper science.

Since we began in December 2012, we have added to our concerns the economic and social harm caused by rocketing power prices and unreliable power supplies, the product of heavily subsidised and intermittent wind power: the results that have played out in Australia's wind power capital, South Australia, will cripple that State at an economic and social level for decades to come.

I agree with you, Donn, that the CO2 and global warming issues have been politicized, and I think you win the day on your assertions that present policies will cause great economic harm to the U.S.

Second climate policies should be opposed because of the adverse economic harms that the policies will cause.

Nations or sub-national governments may not look to their domestic economic interests alone to justify their response to climate change because they must also comply with their duties, responsibilities, and obligations to others to prevent climate - change caused harms.

For instance, if the the US not only has economic interests in the climate change policies in political debate but also obligations and duties to poor vulnerable nations to not cause them great harm from US ghg emissions, the United States may not justify failure to act to reduce its ghg emissions on the basis of economic cost to the US.

For instance, most cultures and religions support variations of the golden rule that holds that individuals should not be able to severely harm others because of economic self - interest, polluters should pay for harm that they caused, and nations should prevent their citizens from harming others beyond their boarders.

Former President George W. Bush held that there was insufficient information to conclude global warming was caused by human activity, but that the economic harm of regulating heat - trapping gases was certain.

An ethanol mandate that causes little economic harm when unemployment rates are low, corn production is high, and China's demand for U.S. corn imports is low could inflict severe harm when the opposite conditions obtain — as they do today.

«Severe» economic harm typically results from a combination of factors, not one single cause.

It's pretty easy to imagine agricultural and economic challenges consequent to climate change causing comparable harm in the not - too - distant future.

The US government's official definition is an alien species «whose introduction causes or is likely to cause economic or environmental harm or harm to human health.»

Developing technologies that will allow economic growth to continue without causing environmental harm will be necessary as long as this «iron law» holds true.

One party may be guilty of tortious conduct when they interfere with another party's contracts, business relationships, or other economic prospects, with the intent of causing financial harm.

Causes of action: Defamation, intentional interference with economic interests, intentional infliction of emotional harm, invasion of privacy

Proving harm to an economic interest would not be required for this cause of action, but the court noted that because of the intangible interest being protected here that any damages would be modest.

The court will often award special damages for loss of earnings, medical expenses, property damage, and other measureable economic harms caused by the defendant's actions.

A person can always sue the individual who actually caused the physical or economic harm to them in an elder abuse situation.

We can all doubtless agree that government action that causes harm to individuals should result in liability, save where officials have had to make difficult decisions in balancing complex economic, social, cultural and political considerations.

It will hurt small and large businesses, cause significant economic harm and stifle innovation in the use of electronic messaging systems.

Economic crimes differ from ordinary financial misconduct, as economic crimes are initially directed towards the economic policy of the state and cause harm to its financial interests, whereas financial crimes have an impact on the victim, such as stealing money from individuals, so neither does it achieve economic progress and growth for himself, or for the benefit of the national Economic crimes differ from ordinary financial misconduct, as economic crimes are initially directed towards the economic policy of the state and cause harm to its financial interests, whereas financial crimes have an impact on the victim, such as stealing money from individuals, so neither does it achieve economic progress and growth for himself, or for the benefit of the national economic crimes are initially directed towards the economic policy of the state and cause harm to its financial interests, whereas financial crimes have an impact on the victim, such as stealing money from individuals, so neither does it achieve economic progress and growth for himself, or for the benefit of the national economic policy of the state and cause harm to its financial interests, whereas financial crimes have an impact on the victim, such as stealing money from individuals, so neither does it achieve economic progress and growth for himself, or for the benefit of the national economic progress and growth for himself, or for the benefit of the national economy.

The commercial trucking system is an essential component of America's economic stability, but because of the weight and size of trucks, they can potentially cause great harm to others sharing the roadway when speeding.

As to the first guideline, the court also relied upon Campbell to note the relevance of such factors as whether the defendant caused physical or economic harm, evinced a reckless disregard for the plaintiff's health and safety, preyed upon the vulnerable, engaged repeatedly in the harmful conduct, and caused harm through intentional, malicious or mere accidental means.

They alleged that the Commissioner's decision had caused them reputational, economic and psychiatric harm suffered as a result of errors made by both the Metropolitan Police Service and the Director of Legal Services at the Met, in the preparation and conduct of the defence to Mr Ahmad's claim.

Wrongful intentional acts causing harm, loss or damage to businesses or their stakeholders may give rise to a cause of action in common law business torts (economic torts).

In all three cases, regulators have failed to understand the technical and economic underpinnings of cryptocurrency and have drafted regulations that could well cause more harm than good.

There are a few exceptions: If you're in the highest paid 10 percent of wage earners at your company and your manager can show that your absence would cause substantial economic harm to the organization, you can be denied «restoration,» which is the guarantee that you can return to the same or an equivalent job.

The conference also heard about moves to create a more smoke - free environment at the Illawarra Koori Men's Support Group, where Elders recognised smoking was causing both economic and health harms, but no - one wanted to discourage smokers from being involved in the group.