Sentences with phrase «willful disregard of»

Punitive damages may be awarded when the behavior of the person that injured the victim was fraudulent, malicious, or in willful disregard of the potential of harm to another.

You're just gonna have to find some other justification for your willful disregard of the conclusions climate science.

To believe in it takes willful disregard of empirical evidence and plain old common sense.

¹ However, as the IWC celebrates its 70th anniversary, willful disregard of the ban by Japan, Iceland and Norway has sentenced some 40,000 whales to death since the moratorium took effect.

Under the new law, taxpayers are also subject to penalties of up to $ 1,000 for underreporting capital gains taxes, and up to $ 5,000 for willful disregard of the law or reckless conduct in reporting capital gains taxes.

As a veteran educator and teacher leader, I am angry about the seemingly willful disregard of our situation by policy makers.

However, any attorney's fees paid from public funds for any officer, employee, or agent who is found to be personally liable by virtue of acting outside the scope of his or her employment or acting in bad faith, with malicious purpose, or in a manner exhibiting wanton and willful disregard of human rights, safety, or property may be recovered by the state, county, municipality, or political subdivision in a civil action against such officer, employee, or agent.

For those for whom these considerations might not be quite enough, there is little that can enforce the code other than concern with the cumulative harm to ones reputation and standing that comes from ones colleagues awareness of a pattern of infractions, or fear of the public denunciation by colleagues that may follow in the rarer instances of someones descending into more massive and willful disregard of accepted standards.

If any sin or immorality is rampant in the realm of substance use and abuse, it is the willful disregard of those who need care by those who are committed to caring.

@Bystander, I think dishonesty implies a willful disregard of truth, so that believed out of genuine, rather than willful ignorance isn't dishonest.

Not exact matches

Saying this could qualify as «willful» disregard of the law, lawyer Robert Barnes wrote for the site LawNewz, and a court would take that into account when assessing the newspaper's right to do so.

It shows me either a willful disregard for the flow of the biblical narrative or simply lack of familiarity.

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As a Christian, I understand that life begins at conception, (I don't care how wicked men define when life begins) and such a flippant disregard for human life to the point of willful and guiltless murder is demonic.

«I would offer that there is either a willful disregard for what goes into local government budgeting or there is a degree of ignorance as to what goes into local budgeting,» said Molinaro, who has been mentioned as a possible GOP candidate for governor in 2018.

Because of its conveniently contained setting (Columbia, Missouri, home to the state's largest university) and its independent ethic (a willful disregard for awards, promotional parties, industry dealing, and the atmosphere of corporatized networking that comes with all of this), the True / False Film Fest is regarded as a haven for both fans and creators of documentaries.

In no event shall anything contained herein be so construed as to protect the Foreside against any liability to the Registrant or its shareholders to which the Foreside would otherwise be subject by reason of willful misfeasance, bad faith, or gross negligence in the performance of its duties under this Agreement or by reason of its reckless disregard of its obligations under this Agreement.

What observations do you offer that would encourage this other than claiming the last 3 years (2005 hottest) or last twelve (’98 hottest) equal global cooling when they are all among the hottest years in the last 2 million (a fundamentally flawed assertion that shows 100 % ignorance, or willful disregard, of basic scientific principles, namely that a three — twelve year period is not a long - term trend, but is variability until proven otherwise.)

The USNA's continued use of those models and that approach is a willful choice to disregard the most fundamental of scientific rules.

Reckless driving is defined as operating a motor vehicle with a willful disregard for the safety of other people or property.

Common law punitive damages does require that a defendant act with «actual malice» toward a plaintiff or that he acted under circumstances that amount to «a willful and wanton disregard» of a plaintiff's rights.

Reckless driving is defined as driving on a freeway, road or in an off - street parking lot in willful or wanton disregard for the safety of persons or property.

Punitive damages may be awarded when the behavior of the person that injured the victim was willful or with a reckless disregard for the high likelihood of harm.

Elsewhere, Scott Nelson at Consumer Law & Policy Blog discusses two Fair Credit Reporting Act cases the Court accepted yesterday that raise the question of whether a willful violation is established by proof of reckless disregard of the law.

Depending on the circumstances, speeding can also lead to a charge of reckless driving if the vehicle was being operated in willful or wanton disregard for the safety of persons or property.

According to the Texas Transportation Code, reckless driving consists of operating a vehicle with willful or wanton disregard for the safety of others or personal property.

Reckless driving is showing willful or wanton disregard for the safety of others, or driving in a careless, reckless or negligent manner.

Also last week, State Rep. Lon Burnam submitted a resolution to impeach Keller, citing «gross neglect of duty» and «willful disregard for human life.»

Provides the following punitive damage reforms a) raises the standard of conduct for punitive damages from the current «willful indifference» to a standard of «deliberate disregard»; b) establishes the party's right to insist on a bifurcated trial when a claim includes punitive damages; a separate proceeding is held to consider financial condition of the defendant and other evidence relevant only to punitive damages; c) provides trial and appellate judges the power to review all punitive damage awards.

Also in 2015, the SCC issued Guindon v. Canada, which upheld a penalty imposed on Julie Guindon pursuant to s. 163.2 of the Income Tax Act for providing «flawed and misleading» advice to her clients, advice which was «indicative either of complete disregard of the law and whether it was complied with or not or of willful blindness.»

Reckless driving is defined as «any person who drives any vehicle in willful or wanton disregard for the safety of persons or property» (Florida Statute 316.192).

Technically, there is no such thing as wreckless driving in Florida, that's because there's no «w» in what essentially is «reckless driving» or driving with a willful and wanton disregard for the safety of another person or property.

Florida law defines reckless driving as anyone who «drives any vehicle in a willful or wanton disregard for the safety of persons or property.»

It denotes behavior that is more than just negligence or a lack of attention; it is the wanton or willful disregard for the safety of others.

Careless driving is any sort of driving which stops short of «willful or wanton disregard».

A driver that is driving «recklessly» must be proven to have been driving with «willful or wanton disregard» for the safety or live of other road users or pedestrians or property.

The lawsuit, filed in Cuyahoga County Clerk of Courts on January 19, says Facebook acted with «intentional, willful, malicious, in bad faith and in reckless disregard for the rights of Mr. Godwin.»

Co. v. Burr, substantially increased the risk of punitive damages under the FCRA by ruling that a reckless disregard of the FCRA could be sufficient to show «willful» non-compliance.

«Whether through willful ignorance or an utter disregard for the lives of the world's most vulnerable women, the Trump administration continues to trample on progress without even the semblance of strategy.