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The Tiktok Algorithm Is Good, But Is It Too Good? Exploring The Responsibility Of Artificial Intelligence Systems Reinforcing Harmful Ideas On Users, Julianne Gabor
Catholic University Journal of Law and Technology
No abstract provided.
Taking Note Of Notary Employees: Employer Liability For Notary Employee Misconduct, Nancy Perkins Spyke
Taking Note Of Notary Employees: Employer Liability For Notary Employee Misconduct, Nancy Perkins Spyke
Maine Law Review
The law of agency governs the relations between principals, agents, and third persons. A portion of that body of law deals with the liabilities that arise when an agent causes harm to a third party. Situations in which negligent employees cause harm to their employers' customers are ripe for the application of standard agency principles. Those principles dictate that the employer will be liable for the tort of an employee if the tort is committed in the scope of employment. The Restatement (Second) of Agency and case law provide many illustrations. If an employer directs an employee to perform a …
Church Liability For Clergy Sexual Abuse: Have Time And Events Overthrown Swanson V. Roman Catholic Bishop Of Portland?, Sonia J. Buck
Church Liability For Clergy Sexual Abuse: Have Time And Events Overthrown Swanson V. Roman Catholic Bishop Of Portland?, Sonia J. Buck
Maine Law Review
In Swanson v. Roman Catholic Bishop of Portland, Albert and Ruth Swanson sued their former pastor, Father Maurice Morin, after the couple's marriage counseling sessions with Father Morin led to a sexual relationship between Father Morin and Mrs. Swanson. The Swansons brought claims against Father Morin for negligent and intentional infliction of emotional distress and negligent pastoral counseling. They also sued the Roman Catholic Bishop of Portland, a corporation, and Bishop Joseph Gerry in his personal capacity (collectively referred to as the “Church”) for negligence in selecting, training, and supervising Father Morin. The Maine Superior Court dismissed the claims against …
Lewis V. Clarke, Summer L. Carmack
Lewis V. Clarke, Summer L. Carmack
Public Land & Resources Law Review
One manner in which Indian tribes exercise their inherent sovereignty is by asserting sovereign immunity. In Lewis v. Clarke, the Court decided that the sovereign immunity extended to instrumentalities of tribes did not further extend to tribal employees acting within the scope of their employment. The Court acknowledged the concerns of the lower court, namely, the possibility of setting a precedent allowing future plaintiffs to sidestep a tribe’s sovereign immunity by suing a tribal employee in his individual capacity. However, the Supreme Court ultimately felt that the immunity of tribal employees should not exceed the immunity extended to state …
Further Perspectives On Corporate Wrongdoing, In Pari Delicto, And Auditor Malpractice, Deborah A. Demott
Further Perspectives On Corporate Wrongdoing, In Pari Delicto, And Auditor Malpractice, Deborah A. Demott
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Self-Handicapping And Managers’ Duty Of Care, David A. Hoffman
Self-Handicapping And Managers’ Duty Of Care, David A. Hoffman
All Faculty Scholarship
This symposium essay focuses on the relationship between managers' duty of care and self-handicapping, or constructing obstacles to performance with the goal of influencing subsequent explanations about outcomes. Conventional explanations for failures of caretaking by managers have focused on motives (greed) and incentives (agency costs). This account of manager behavior has led some modern jurists, concerned about recent corporate scandals, to advocate for stronger deterrent measures to realign manager and shareholder incentives. * Self-handicapping theory, by contrast, teaches that bad manager behavior may occur even when incentives are well-aligned. Highly successful individuals in particular come to fear the pressure of …
Labor And Employment Law, Thomas M. Winn Iii
Labor And Employment Law, Thomas M. Winn Iii
University of Richmond Law Review
No abstract provided.
Chaos And The Law Of Borrowed Servant: An Argument For Consistency, J. Dennis Hynes
Chaos And The Law Of Borrowed Servant: An Argument For Consistency, J. Dennis Hynes
Publications
No abstract provided.
Hospital Liability Related To Understaffing Of Nursing Services: Walking The Fine Line Between Respondeat Superior And Corporate Negligence, Carmen D. Rasmussen
Hospital Liability Related To Understaffing Of Nursing Services: Walking The Fine Line Between Respondeat Superior And Corporate Negligence, Carmen D. Rasmussen
West Virginia Law Review
No abstract provided.
Banks And Banking-Bank's Liability For Breach Of Its Duty To Corporate Depositor-Maley V. East Side Bank Of Chicago, Michigan Law Review
Banks And Banking-Bank's Liability For Breach Of Its Duty To Corporate Depositor-Maley V. East Side Bank Of Chicago, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
The three stockholders of a close corporation contracted to sell all of the corporate stock to Shulman for $5,000 down and a balance of $17,000 in two notes payable in thirty days. A resolution filed with the defendant depositary bank provided that Paul, the former president, was to act as the interim treasurer for the corporation and was to cosign, with Shulman, all checks drawn on the corporate account until the balance of the purchase price was tendered. Approximately one week after the agreement was made, the bank received an inordinate number of inquiries regarding the credit of the corporation, …
Agency -- 1964 Tennessee Survey, John S. Beasley
Agency -- 1964 Tennessee Survey, John S. Beasley
Vanderbilt Law Review
During the period covered by this Survey several cases have raised rather interesting points for consideration under the law of agency. On one occasion the Tennessee Supreme Court declined the opportunity of joining the ranks of the majority of states in moving toward a more modern rule on employer's liability with respect to an employee's child injured negligently by the employee. In this and other decisions, the courts have followed Tennessee precedent rather closely, with the result that there are few changes in the law of agency.
Charitable Liability For Tort, Edith L. Fisch
Charitable Liability For Tort, Edith L. Fisch
Villanova Law Review
No abstract provided.
Agency -- 1960 Tennessee Survey, Warren A. Seavey
Agency -- 1960 Tennessee Survey, Warren A. Seavey
Vanderbilt Law Review
In Richardson v. Snipes' both parties to an exchange of land employed the plaintiff, the contract providing that the defendant would pay no commission unless the transfer was completed. The other party satisfied the conditions imposed by the defendant, who, however, refused to go through with the exchange. The court properly reversed judgment for the defendant; but the result should not have turned upon the finding of bad faith of the defendant, as the court held. The plaintiff had performed his undertaking which was to provide one who would exchange titles and who would have gone through with the transaction …
Agency To Make Representations, Merton Ferson
Agency To Make Representations, Merton Ferson
Vanderbilt Law Review
Representations, commands, threats and other utterances are a species of acts and may have legal consequences. An utterance may, for example, constitute fraud, negligence, slander or intimidation. The person who speaks is responsible and it may be that another person, in whose behalf the utterance was made, also is responsible. This discussion has to do with the question of what must be shown to establish the ability' of one person to speak in behalf of another, and thus to make the other liable for the legal consequences.
Master And Servant - Independent Contractor - Salesman As Servant Or Independent Contractor, Milton M. Howard
Master And Servant - Independent Contractor - Salesman As Servant Or Independent Contractor, Milton M. Howard
Michigan Law Review
Plaintiff was injured as a result of a collision between his automobile and one being driven by N. N was a traveling salesman for defendant company and plaintiff sued both N and the company. It was held that, under the facts of the case, while N had been negligent, and was therefore liable, defendant company was not liable, for N was an independent contractor. Holloway v. Nassar, 276 Mich. 212, 267 N. W. 619 (1936).
Corporations-Liability Of Officers Of Corporate Trustee For Breach Of Trust
Corporations-Liability Of Officers Of Corporate Trustee For Breach Of Trust
Michigan Law Review
Defendants were officers and directors of the Lincoln Trust Company, which was acting as trustee for the holders of certain bonds secured by a mortgage. Among other things, the trust instrument provided that the Trust Company should foreclose whenever a breach of the conditions of the mortgage should occur. The mortgagors defaulted on interest payments, but the Trust Company nevertheless advanced the amount of the interest to the bondholders without notifying them that the mortgagors had defaulted, the concealment being apparently for the purpose of maintaining the market value of the bonds. In an action brought by the successor trustee …
Torts- Master And Servant- Duty Not To Expose Thinly-Clad Servant To The Elements
Torts- Master And Servant- Duty Not To Expose Thinly-Clad Servant To The Elements
Michigan Law Review
The plaintiff, a 15-year-old boy, was employed by the manager of the defendant's store in delivering merchandise and in peddling bills. One cold day the manager asked the plaintiff to accompany him in the truck and deliver orders. Despite the boy's objection that it was "too stormy," the manager told him that he must go, that he would not have time to go home after warmer clothing, that he would be gone but a short time, and that "he would be all right." As a result of this trip, the plaintiff became seriously ill and now sues for damages on …
Banks And Banking-Payment By Savings Bank To Other Than Depositor
Banks And Banking-Payment By Savings Bank To Other Than Depositor
Michigan Law Review
The plaintiff, depositor in a savings bank, sued the bank to recover for a payment made, upon presentation of the passbook together with a forged receipt, to one known to have previously acted as the depositor's agent. In order to protect itself in such a case the bank had provided the following bylaw: "The passbook shall be the voucher of the depositor, and the possession of the passbook shall be sufficient authority to the bank to warrant any deposit or payment made or entered therein." Held, the bank was liable to the depositor, despite the by-law, as it was …
Parties- Joinder Of Master And Servant As Defendants
Parties- Joinder Of Master And Servant As Defendants
Michigan Law Review
This was an action against the owner of a taxicab and his driver for damages caused by the negligence of the driver in the course of his employment. A motion for a directed verdict on the ground of misjoinder was overruled. Held, error. Knox v. Redwine, (App. D. C. 1932) 59 F. (2d) 304.
Master And Servant-Parent And Child-Liability Of Master When Servant Negligently Injures His Own Son
Master And Servant-Parent And Child-Liability Of Master When Servant Negligently Injures His Own Son
Michigan Law Review
Plaintiff was injured through the negligence of his father who was employed by the defendant. The parent was acting within the scope of his employment at the time of the injury. Held, plaintiff could recover from his father's employer, even though the child could not have sued his father. Chase v. New Haven Waste Material Corporation (Conn. 1930) 150 Atl. 107.
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
No abstract provided.
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
Assignments- Assignment of an Expectancy - Joseph and James were two of six children. A contract witnessed "that Joseph Snyder has sold to James Snyder one undivided sixth of the real estate owned by the mother, Susan Snyder; to secure said interest to James after her death, the mother unites in the conveyance of said interest The said Joseph warrants and defends the interest from all claims." The contract was signed by Joseph and by the mother. Held, Joseph had no estate which he could convey, and the contract, though made with the consent of the mother, was unenforceable either …
Liability Of An Agent In Tort, Warren A. Seavey
Liability Of An Agent In Tort, Warren A. Seavey
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.