[TML] xBoat List Etiquette

[Richard Aiken]

On Dec 29, 2007 5:59 AM,  <shadow at shadowgard.com> wrote:
> On 29 Dec 2007 at 3:23, Richard Aiken wrote:
> Alas, that's mostly covered. The laws often say you *can't* sue some
> sorts of government functionary for the results of their "performing
> their duty".
> Which means you have to prove that what they did was not "doing their
> duty". If it was "merely a bad decision" you are apt to lose... :-(

Ah.

But what if their duty was to "assist" (I'm pretty sure it says
something like in the job description they put on their resumes), yet
they did nothing?  Wouldn't they then have to prove that doing nothing
somehow fulfilled some definition of "assist?"  Sounds to me like that
would be rather hard to do.

-- 
Richard Aiken

"Never insult anyone by accident."  Robert A. Heinlein