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In Canada, good Samaritan acts fall under provincial jurisdiction. Each province has its own act, such as Ontario's [6] and British Columbia's [7] respective Good Samaritan Acts, Alberta's, Northwest Territories, Yukon's and Nunavut's Emergency Medical Aid Acts, [8] and Nova Scotia's Volunteer Services Act. [9]
The Good Samaritan Search and Recovery Act of 2013 is a United States bill that would make it easier for qualified volunteer groups to conduct searches for missing persons on federal land. [1] The federal government would be required to issue a permit within 48 hours.
A duty to rescue is a concept in tort law and criminal law that arises in a number of cases, describing a circumstance in which a party can be held liable for failing to come to the rescue of another party who could face potential injury or death without being rescued.
The Federal Food Donation Act of 2008 built on the Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Food Donation Act by encouraging federal agencies to donate excess food to nonprofit organizations, utilizing the exemption for civil and criminal liability provided for in the 1996 law. Federal contracts for the purchase of food valued at over $25,000 must make ...
Hawley introduced the "Limiting Section 230 Immunity to Good Samaritans Act" bill in the Senate on June 17, 2020, with co-sponsors Rubio, Mike Braun and Tom Cotton, which would allow providers with over 30 million monthly U.S. users and over US$1.5 billion in global revenues to be liable to lawsuits from users who believed that the provider was ...
Following the blizzard and ongoing rescue efforts in Buffalo, stories of heroic citizens are continuing to emerge.
Dec. 25—One of the country's largest faith-based medical cost-sharing groups has filed a lawsuit saying the state is violating its religious rights by attempting to prevent such entities from ...
It was "individual Good Samaritans" who "averted disaster," Sachs shows. Her book stops short of explicitly saying governments and large organizations are not the most effective relief providers.