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  2. Gross negligence - Wikipedia

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    Gross negligence is used as a standard for criminal law, for example, under manslaughter in English law. [4] Under common law, criminal negligence is defined as a gross deviation from a reasonable standard of care. This is a higher standard than ordinary negligence under tort law.

  3. Ultramares Corp. v. Touche - Wikipedia

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    The audit was found to be negligent, but not fraudulent. The judge set this finding aside based on the doctrine of privity, which protects auditors from third party suits. An intermediate appellate court reinstated the negligence verdict. The case then went to the New York Court of Appeals, Judge Benjamin Cardozo presiding.

  4. Legal liability of certified public accountants - Wikipedia

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    Ultramares sued the CPA for ordinary negligence. The New York Court of Appeals ruled that CPAs are held accountable for ordinary negligence to their clients and third parties who identify themselves as users of the CPAs reports. [10] The "near privity" approach was established in Credit Alliance Corp. v. Arthur Andersen & Company. [11]

  5. Tedla v. Ellman - Wikipedia

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    Tedla v. Ellman (280 N.Y. 124, 19 N.E. 2d 987) was a 1939 New York Court of Appeals case that was influential in establishing the bounds of the negligence per se doctrine. . Ordinarily, a statutory violation automatically constitutes neglige

  6. Martin v. Herzog - Wikipedia

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    Herzog, Ct. of App. of N.Y., 228 N Y. 164, 126 N.E. 814 (1920), was a New York Court ... wagon was as matter of law such negligence on his part as to defeat the cause ...

  7. U.S. Charges BP with Gross Negligence (BP, RIG) - AOL

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    The explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon in April 2010 killed 11 workers and spilled millions of barrels of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico. BP PLC (NYSE: BP) has spent billions of ...

  8. Former NYC yeshiva student claims he was sexually abused ...

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    Oholei Torah “enabled the sexual abuse” of the student, who was aged 11 and 12-years-old during the six month horror, “through its gross negligence, negligence, carelessness and recklessness ...

  9. Negligent homicide - Wikipedia

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    Negligent homicide is a criminal charge brought against a person who, through criminal negligence, allows another person to die.Other times, an intentional killing may be negotiated down to this lesser charge as a compromised resolution of a murder case, as might occur in the context of the intentional shooting of an unarmed man after a traffic altercation. [1]

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