Thus, as the Court announced the dawn of corporate criminal liability in Americawith an embrace oftort law, it simultaneously signaled to generations of prosecutors that arguments of necessity and public policy would, in the realm of corporate crime at least, carry great sway.
Mazda presents one of the most contentious issues in tort law today: Whether jurors applying state-law concepts ofliability can essentially write their own safety regulations for manufacturers.
Under the deep-pocket theory, which says, to put it somewhat cynically, that tortliability automatically expands to the nearest available pot of money.