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Contractors, especially licensed ones are usually liable for their work. So too is Marriot, for asking them in the first place, but they settled: > Marriott ag

Contractors, especially licensed ones are usually liable for their work. So too is Marriot, for asking them in the first place, but they settled: > Marriott agreed to settle the investigation by paying a civil penalty of $600,000 and establishing operating procedures to ensure that it does not engage in further Wi-Fi blocking Presumably MC Dean did not.

imgabe 10y ago
Right, I just thought they would usually be liable to the owner, and the owner would be the one legally liable. Now, if the owner got fined because MC Dean screwed something up, they could turn around and sue MC Dean for the amount of the fine. But separately fining both the owner and the contractor for the same infraction seems like double dipping on the part of the government, unless they're being fined in proportion to culpability or something like that.
- jessaustin 10y ago
  IANAL, but "someone hired me" is not a defense for any crime. Perhaps Marriott could use ignorance as an excuse for hiring a wireless communication firm to break a wireless communication law (under the somewhat silly theory that they are only experts in hotel law), but the wireless communication firm itself certainly can't.
- TheCoelacanth 10y ago
  "Double-dipping" is allowed in criminal cases. If two people cooperate to murder someone both can go to jail for the full sentence; they don't split up the sentence between them.