Sentences with phrase «harmful conduct»

This duty requires them to use reasonable care to protect their patrons, guests, and / or tenants from another person's harmful conduct if that conduct can be reasonably anticipated.

Justice Antonin Scalia, writing for a five - judge majority, stated that the Free Exercise Clause does not apply to «generally applicable prohibitions of socially harmful conduct.»

Sprigg, from the Family Research Council, says his condemnation of homosexual conduct does not spring from intolerance but a desire to protect gays from harmful conduct, he says.

Although parents are lawfully entitled to restrict the liberty of their children in accordance with the best interests of the child, if a parent engages in abusive or harmful conduct toward his or her child that surpasses any acceptable form of parenting, the lawfulness of his or her authority to confine the child ceases.»

We must develop a jurisprudence that will contain both substantive and procedural rules for all actions taken by government officials in order to prevent harmful conduct - including terrorism.

«We're arguing that the polygamy provision of the Criminal Code is there to prevent the practice of polygamy where such practice is exploitative or abusive of women and children, and so should be interpreted to prohibit harmful conduct,» said West Coast LEAF Legal Director Kasari Govender.

We are tremendously proud of our clients and honored to give them a strong and meaningful voice in court by fighting to hold careless and negligent parties accountable by pursuing justice in personal injury and wrongful death cases relating to motor vehicle collisions, medical malpractice, defective products / devices, dangerous drugs, and other harmful conduct.

When an employer seeks a temporary injunction to enforce a noncompete provision of an employment agreement, it is asking the court to force its former employee stop engaging in the alleged harmful conduct for a specified period.

If you or a loved one have suffered a traumatic injury as the result of someone else's negligent, reckless, or intentionally harmful conduct, a Bardstown traumatic injury lawyer can help you seek the recovery you may need to pay your bills and move forward with your life as best you can.

«More than any one issue, I'm interested in Mark Zuckerberg's vision for the responsibility Facebook plans to take for what happens on its platform, how it will protect users» data, and how it intends to proactively stop harmful conduct instead of being forced to respond to it months or years later,» said Republican Sen. John Thune (S.D.), the leader of the Senate Commerce Committee, in a statement.

In Smith, the socially harmful conduct was the use of peyote; in our example, it is the use of wine.

Under the Smith decision, churches are not protected by the Free Exercise Clause against these laws, because the laws are of «general application» and are aimed at restricting «socially harmful conduct.»

While no monetary award may make up for the devastating injuries you have incurred as a result of medical malpractice, one of our experienced medical malpractice lawyers in Bardstown can help you hold the physician, hospital, or medical device manufacturer accountable for their dangerous and harmful conduct.

These three types of proceedings have different objectives: the objective of a protective services investigation is to provide immediate help and relief to the victim and prevent further harm; the civil action is to seek compensation for damages; and the criminal prosecution is when the state seeks to punish the harmful conduct.

We are passionate about fighting for justice for our clients and dedicated to making our communities safer by holding negligent individuals and entities accountable for their harmful conduct.

The goals of these dockets include keeping communities safe, supporting treatment for participants, and ending defendants» criminal or harmful conduct.

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.

A property owner is required to take affirmative and proactive steps to install security measures when criminal and / or harmful conduct can be reasonably anticipated.

Second, the party must allege that the harmful conduct is «independently actionable».