We didn’t mean vicarious that way

by Walter Olson on July 22, 2003

Deputy U.S. Attorney General Larry D. Thompson professes to believe, at one and the same time, that it is “bedrock” law that incorporated businesses be held to vicarious criminal liability for the acts of their employees and agents, and that the law both does and should set a single standard for individual and business criminality, rather than dealing more severely with business. (”‘Zero Tolerance’ For Corporate Fraud”, Wall Street Journal, Jul. 21). Which raises the question: will Mr. Thompson volunteer to serve jail time personally should one of his household employees commit vehicular manslaughter while on the way to buy him groceries? “Robert Musil” wonders, and so do we (Jun. 21).

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1 The Southern California Law Blog 07.23.03 at 2:17 am

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