Lyft Owes No Duty To Its Drivers To Do Background Checks On Riders
Al Shikha v. Lyft, Inc., 102 Cal. App. 5th 14 (2024)
While working as a Lyft driver, Abdu Lkader Al Shikra was stabbed by a passenger in a “sudden and unprovoked attack.” Al Shikra sued Lyft for negligence based on its failure to conduct criminal background checks on all passengers. The trial court granted Lyft’s motion for judgment on the pleadings, and the Court of Appeal affirmed dismissal of…
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"Month-Term Given Emile Duquette On Charge of Assault," Ottawa Citizen. March 3, 1943. Page 12.
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Convicted on Monday of striking Alfred Whitehead, veteran Chateau Laurier employe, and causing him bodily harm, Emile Duquette, 33-year-old mechanic, of 151 St. Jacques street, Hull, was today sentenced to one month in jail.
Evidence was that, following a remark made by Whitehead to Duquette and a girl companion, Duquette struck Whitehead, knocking him down a stairway leading to the employes' entrance of the Chateau. Whitehead's wrist was broken.
Lionel Choquette, defence counsel, stated that Duquette was excitable and possibly had misunderstood Whitehead's remark.
"He probably wanted to be a hero in the eyes of his girl friend." Mr. Choquette said, pointing out that Whitehead's injuries had been caused mostly by the fall, rather than by the blow on the jaw.
Sees No Provocation.
Magistrate Strike held that there had been no provocation for Duquette's action.
"The accused became angry not from anything the complainant (Whitehead) said or did to his companion, but because he was just in the frame of mind that he wasn't going to be ordered around by anyone," said Magistrate Strike. "As a result of a blow struck by the accused, the complainant suffered considerable injury, but I am not going to hold that Whitehead's fall was the natural result of Duquette's illegal act."
Last Saturday morning, Mr. Choquette charged in court that his client had been whipped while on remand. On Monday, Crown Attorney Raoul Mercier told the court that Duquette had defied jail authorities by refusing to clean his cell and that punishment permitted by law had been properly administered.
the people who say Magneto was wrong for sending the EMP around the world somehow never provide any alternative solutions? Personally, I would find an obvious alternative solution a lot more convincing than "Magneto was wrong because this is going to kill people" - when he's responding to a situation where a lot of people had already been killed and were being actively killed.
You just witnessed the massacre on Genosha. You've been held prisoner by these butchers for who knows how long now and witnessed the progress their plans are making and know that powerful people around the world are part of it, including humans that you assumed were your allies. You know that droves of humans are being turned into cyborgs that go after your people, your species - which happens to be a pretty disenfranchised minority group.
And then you manage to escape.
What's your alternative plan from here? Fly around the entire planet yourself and try to catch all the Sentinels by hand and stop them, risking your own life every time which means that you will likely never finish this mission? Assuming you can ever find them all? Go back to the mansion and hold a meeting about it (except if you try that, you will find that the place is on fire and your friends are also fighting for their lives)
Lean back and sit it out? Rationalising to yourself that while you have the means to stop this catastrophe, your means are too drastic - so it would be more ethical to sit back and wait while your people are being targetted (which would be so extremely out of character for Magneto that it would be downright laughable to expect this of him). He also doesn't know Charles is coming back or anything.
Remember, Bastion's first literal reaction to hearing about Magneto's escape was: "Too little, too late." In-universe, Bastion considered the most obvious option Magneto has now and he himself confirmed that they would be inefficient to stop him.
I just think that in the wake of extreme trauma, extremely limited time and resources, a foe that outnumbers and overpowers you, no executive or legal authority to appeal to (in fact, governments are in on it) - yeah, turning off the electricity to take down the zombie murder cyborgs is pretty understandable from my point of view. And it definitely is a choice I wouldn't want to make - a choice no one would want to make. And one that Magneto will likely be vilified for - but he still did it. Because that's what he always does and because he's used to people hating him for actual doing something.
I had a dream that Hawkheart was my elderly cat and everytime he walked into the room people would start booing him for that time he killed Moonflower so I'd pick him up and defend him
"So, @hydrasspider , welcome back." Artemia looked as calm as ever. Though there was a bandage around shoulder this time and she moved that arm gingerly. "How are you feeling today."
ah yes, she's concerned about the aggressor and attacker who was invading them six months ago. something is wrong with the empire right now, poor edelgard; whatever could've happened to her? :(
like... what. why do you care about what's going on with her specifically when she's the person who made the decision to invade leicester? does the whole war just mean nothing to marianne? it's just totally fine that all those people died in a war edelgard started? poor edelgard, something happened to her after she started her attack? you're concerned about the leader who gave the order to attack your home?
hopes has stupid lines but this one is top tier of the top tier and just an excuse for more edelgardjerking from the writers.