Strict liability is a legal doctrine that applies to certain crimes, as well as in certain tort cases (claims made to recover compensation after an injury). When strict liability rules apply ...

Strict liability rules make it easier for you to hold a manufacturer accountable for a dangerous product, but they do not necessarily mean the manufacturer is going to be held r.

Pre-Bard, the strict liability cause of action coexisted with a cause of action founded in negligence (see, e.g., Benoit , Troy & LR Co., (154 NY 223 at 225-227), but it now stands alone as the ...

Once such knowledge is established, an owner faces strict liability for the harm the animal causes as a result of those propensities (citation omitted). This disposition does not entitle dog ...

The paper argued that the growth of federal law and lack of mens rea requirements have damaged public confidence in criminal law by “creat ... the multitude of “strict liability” crimes nowadays has ...

Gov. Greg Gianforte recently signed HB490 into law, requiring electric utilities to develop and follow wildfire prevention plans to reduce wildfire risk and to prevent the California strict liability ...

By imposing liability for conduct that no reasonable person would have thought to be a crime, strict liability also denies an average person notice of what the law requires.

The body of law is so vast and obscure that no one knows exactly how many offenses it includes. Trump is right in decrying the 'absurd' consequences of regulatory crimes - Chicago Sun-Times ...