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This decision exposes several stakeholders of PRC to legal liability since dumping the waste into a river is tantamount to non-compliance with environmental laws and regulations.
One of the parties that is liable for non-compliance with environmental regulations is the company i.e. PRC. The company is exposed to legal liability because of failure to ensure that its environmental activities and overall operations relating to handling wastes are not in line with environmental laws. While the company may argue that the CEO should be held responsible, it's exposed to legal liability because of negligence. In this case, the company failed to establish strict processes and regulations that could prevent its management and employees from engaging in activities that cause environmental harm or damage. The company should be increasingly concerned with the legal liability because the decision of its CEO and actions of employees point to negligence and the lack of suitable controls to prevent involvement in environmentally-harmful activities and practices.
The second party that could be legally liable for violation of environmental laws and regulations is the company's Chief Executive Officer i.e. Gina. She could be held liable because of her direct…
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Fixtures are considered part of personal property, but in cases where they become a part of real property and cannot be removed, they are considered part of real property. Building on a plot of land is a fixture that is considered part of real property, similarly things that are fixed with the real property and can not be removed without damage can be considered part of real property. In case
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Literature Review, Analysis and Discussion 7,500 words This section presents a review of the recent relevant peer-reviewed and scholarly literature concerning environmental sustainability in general and how environmental sustainability initiatives can help multinational corporations of different sizes and types achieve a competitive advantage in particular. Literature Review. According to Michalisin and Stinchfield (2010), "There is widespread consensus that human activity has had a significant impact on global climatic patterns which will have
However, Erin Brockovich the movie has a very different ending than the actual civil action under tort law brought against California's Pacific Gas and Electric Co. The Hollywood ending would have been preferable, however life is just not that simple and a tort law case against such a company is really a long, tiring legal battle. The 1993 legal dispute from Hinkley was resolved by arbitrage and at first