But others believe that the media is voicing a real concern and that it has a duty to warn consumers and investors.
It was in that same professional capacity that I felt it my duty to warn the press of the novel's potential to provoke anger among some Muslims.
Hotchkiss argued that Munn's parents had the same opportunity to assess the risk as the school, but Hotchkiss was prevented from showing it met its duty to warn the parents about the risks.
Citing cases involving auto wrecks, tainted potatoes and improperly fumigated produce, the court said companies have a duty to warn not just consumers of their products, but just about anybody who comes in contact with them.
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The key claim made by all the former NFL players currently suing the league is that the NFL did in fact withhold such information and failed in their duty to warn the players of the damage they were inevitably causing to their future well-being.
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The lawsuits are mainly based on claims made by thousands of former professional football players that the NFL had a duty to warn players of the long-term consequences of suffering multiple concussions, failed in that duty, and actively sought to disprove independent studies highlighting the grave risks of head injuries (even going as far as to fraudulently misrepresent said findings to players).
The lawyer has an absolute duty to his client to warn of civil and criminal liability exposure when such exposure exists.
When he attended Xavier, Sergeant Daley was still on active duty and unavailable to warn young high school lads about shooting themselves in the foot.
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He said that after the BBC made its decision to air the programme "we then had a duty of care to staff and students to warn them of the consequences, and later that day we did through an internal email".
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