BUSI 2601 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Mike Duffy, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Taxco
25 Aug 2015
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The professor will file backrubs so he does not have to pay the courts now. In short, social media is a killer so do not write and have a blog because we make stupidities in moments of furry and anger and it will catch up to us. The following case could be classified as having aggravated damages because the following comment contains humiliation and extreme racial conduct. Yet, in canada we see aggravated damages very rarely. Although, court case in quebec got tobacco companies for 15 million dollars for inproper disclosure of materials in cigarettes while company is fully aware. Specific torts: products liability: we are designing a product, we need to look at reasonable consequences. When we are dealing with the manufacturing of a product (especially a consumption product), we need to foresee every possibilities. People expect companies to do their due diligence and make the product safe and satisfying.
