People should retain responsibility for their vehicles to ensure safety, but as cars become ever more automated, the current rules of liability would suppress innovation.

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Clive Garner says there are rules of strict liability in environmental cases like this.

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The right is generally happy to devolve decisions about education or health care to the states, notes Charles Fried, a professor of law at Harvard and former solicitor-general, but not product-liability rules and other forms of business regulation.

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These rules will affect the tax liability of many people who go to work overseas for a time, or those who come to the UK for the first time.

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Yet state ethics rules prohibit lawyers from using the threat of criminal liability to obtain advantage in a civil settlement.

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