11.   She said the language and legislative history of the statute indicated that Congress intended to make companies liable for their past conduct.

12.   Since then, criminal codes have been expanded to make parents liable for a broader array of offenses by children.

13.   The bill would make companies liable only if they knew the information was false or had reckless disregard for its accuracy.

14.   The companies said the provision could make them liable any time they deliver communications that violate copyright laws.

15.   The court has also struck down part of the Brady gun control law and laws making states liable in federal court for patent and trademark violations.

16.   The companies should be made liable for their failure to prevent a large percentage of their products from entering the illegal pipeline.

17.   The laws under consideration would not actually make insurers liable for malpractice.

18.   The new legislation would deter businesses from refusing service if a person declines to provide their Social Security number by making them liable under the Unfair Trade Practice Law.

19.   They fear they may be made liable for wholesale theft each time a subscriber downloads, e-mails, or even logs onto copyrighted material.

20.   True, the uncertain nature of technological change makes society liable to the ravages of millennium bugs and the irritations of QWERTY keyboards.