Remember, the principles of agency liability would still apply.

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While interpretations of liability law vary drastically from state to state, these cases basically boil down to two principles.

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They are irrelevant as to the issues under discussion, they violate basic and well established principles of law, they are arbitrary, capricious, biased and discriminatory and give rise to both civil and criminal liability, not only against the IOC as a sporting governing body, but also against certain individuals of the Movement.

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