Sentences with phrase «with reckless disregard»

Still, the courts are certainly not handing out support payments with reckless disregard for each individual's situation.

Too often, law firms treat their intake with reckless disregard and significant delay.

The District Court stated that Dr. Gentile was required to prove Ms. Turkoly «knew [the statements] were false or acted with reckless disregard of whether they were true or false.»

The defendant intended to cause harm or acted with reckless disregard of the likelihood of causing distress, and

She further concluded that, despite the «slight» evidence of actual malice «at this stage» of the litigation, «[t] here is however sufficient evidence to demonstrate some malice or the knowledge that the statements were false or made with reckless disregard as to whether the statements were false.»

«The advertisement targets Senator Larkin and does so by the use of false and and defamatory statements and claims, made with reckless disregard for the truth,» the letter charges.

It's a metaphor designed to explain that while free speech is protected in our country, speaking with reckless disregard for the truth and inciting panic is, at best, irresponsibly dangerous, and, at worst, beyond the covering of the First Amendment.

Involuntary Manslaughter — Either (1) the unintentional killing of another without malice but while engaged in an unlawful activity not naturally tending to cause death or great bodily harm; or (2) the unintentional killing of another without malice but while engaged in a lawful activity with reckless disregard for the safety of others.

The Criminal Code of Canada makes it an offense to distribute intimate images of another person with reckless disregard for whether that person consented, yet such behaviour is not captured by the Act's definition of sexual misconduct.

«The jury also found that the Board of Education acted with reckless disregard for (the) children entrusted to their care,» Thompson's lawyers added.

In the U.S., in a lawsuit against a media defendant, to prevail in a defamation lawsuit it is generally necessary to show not just that the statement was false, but that it was made with «actual malice» (i.e. knowing that it was false or with reckless disregard as to its truth or falsity).

In turn, «actual malice» means a statement was made «with knowledge that it was false or with reckless disregard of whether it was false.»

He did not decide whether Michael Mann had any evidence to support his claim that Steyn acted with reckless disregard for the truth.

Penalties can also be imposed on a person who «promotes or facilitates» prostitution of five or more people, or «acts with reckless disregard that such conduct contributes to sex trafficking.»

The jokes sizzle and fly, with reckless disregard for propriety or for what the audience will «get.»

Here's the pitch: set in the»90s, a young, 20 - something actor (let's say Ansel Elgort) spends his summer vacation driving a taxicab as fast as he can with reckless disregard.

Punitive damages may be awarded with compensatory damages when the behavior of the person that injured the victim was malicious, intentional, willful, or with reckless disregard to the rights of others.

In their decision of Schneider v. St. Clair Region Conservation Authority, the Ontario Court of Appeal was tasked with determining whether another large landowner, a municipality, had acted with reckless disregard.20 The plaintiff was cross-country skiing on a frozen lake in a conservation park that was owned by the St. Clair Conservation Authority but managed by the Township of Middlesex Centre.

Following New York Times Co v Sullivan, the plaintiff must prove actual malice: that the defendant knew the information was untrue or acted with reckless disregard for its truth.

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.

Reckless Homicide — operating a motor vehicle, with reckless disregard for the safety of others, and causing the death of another person.

Punitive damages may be awarded when the behavior of the person that injured the victim was fraudulent, malicious, oppressive, or with reckless disregard of the high likelihood of harm.

Intentional infliction of emotional distress requires that a defendant act (a) intentionally or (b) with reckless disregard.

• The business of the bank was carried on with reckless disregard of the insufficiency of the Bank's assets to satisfy its debts and liabilities, specifically to its depositors

But, if the statement were made knowing it was false or with reckless disregard as to truth or falsity, and if the term «fake news» in the context in which it was used could be legitimately construed the imply a statement of fact which is not true, it wouldn't be impossible for the lawsuit to succeed, and depending upon the context of the statement, it could have such an implication.

Category I punitive damages may be awarded when the behavior of the person that injured the victim was with reckless disregard to the likelihood of harm.

Punitive damages may be awarded when the behavior of the person that injured the victim was fraudulent, malicious, or with reckless disregard of the high likelihood of harm.

[1] The Act also provides that this duty does not apply with regard to the «risks willingly assumed» by those entering the premises, and that in such cases, there is only a duty to not create a deliberately harmful danger and to not act with reckless disregard.

The jury had decided the case in favor of plaintiff, who alleged negligence, negligence per se and intentional infliction of emotional distress, concluding also that defendant nursing home had acted with reckless disregard for the rights of others, resulting in a $ 10,000 punitive damage award tacked onto the $ 1.2 million in compensatory damages.

The high court held in its 1988 decision that public figures and public officials could not recover damages for the tort of intentional infliction of emotional distress without an additional showing that «the publication contains a false statement of fact which was made with «actual malice,» i.e., with knowledge that the statement was false or with reckless disregard as to whether or not it was true.»

Additionally, 18 USC 922 (q)(3) makes it a separate federal crime to «knowingly or with reckless disregard for the safety of another... discharge a firearm» in a primary or secondary school zone, also with a few relatively narrow listed exceptions.

(a) A lawyer shall not make a statement that the lawyer knows to be false, (Amendment # 1 - DELETE: «or with reckless disregard as to its truth or falsity».)

A State can not, under the First and Fourteenth Amendments, award damages to a public official for defamatory falsehood relating to his official conduct unless he proves «actual malice» — that the statement was made with knowledge of its falsity or with reckless disregard of whether it was true or false.

Defamation of public figures is governed by the «actual malice» standard: the person making the statement must either have known that it was false at the time they said it, or must have been acting with reckless disregard for the truth (meaning they had serious doubts that the statement was true at the time they said it).

The facts in the Denison case are complicated, and it's difficult to tell whether the attorney's complaints about judicial corruption really meet the test for «public figure» defamation (meaning they must be made maliciously or with reckless disregard for the truth).

This privilege can be lost, however, if your former employer acted maliciously or with reckless disregard.