NHTSA Authorization and Oversight: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Telecomminications, Consumer Protection, and Finance of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 2248, a Bill to Authorize Appropriations for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, and for Other Purposes, April 30, 1985, Volume 4 |
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Page 395 - And a statute which either forbids or requires the doing of an act in terms so vague that men of common intelligence must necessarily guess at its meaning and differ as to its application violates the first essential of due process of law.
Page 275 - Any individual director, officer, or agent of a corporation who knowingly and willfully authorizes, orders, or performs any of the acts...
Page 280 - It leaves open, therefore, the widest conceivable inquiry, the scope of which no one can foresee and the result of which no one can foreshadow or adequately guard against.
Page 179 - Such term does not include products regulated under the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1966 (15 USC 1381 et seq.), the...
Page 280 - ... to make any unjust or unreasonable rate or charge, in handling or dealing in or with any necessaries...
Page 280 - ... the exact equivalent of an effort to carry out a statute which In terms merely penalized and punished all acts detrimental to the public interest when unjust and unreasonable in the estimation of the court and jury.
Page 61 - The requirements of foresight and vigilance imposed on responsible corporate agents are beyond question demanding, and perhaps onerous, but they are no more stringent than the public has a right to expect of those who voluntarily assume positions of authority in business enterprises whose services and products affect the health and well-being of the public that supports them.
Page 283 - It would certainly be dangerous if the legislature could set a net large enough to catch all possible offenders, and leave it to the courts to step inside and say who could be rightully detained, and who should be set at large.
Page 276 - Each standard, regulation, or amendment thereto promulgated pursuant to this section shall be based on findings that such standard, regulation, or amendment thereto is needed to adequately protect the public against unreasonable risk of the occurrence of fire leading to death, injury, or significant property damage...
Page 108 - Director of the Center for Auto Safety, a non-profit organization founded by Consumers Union and Ralph Nader in 1970.