common carrier
Example Sentences
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As professor Eugene Volokh, one of the originators of the common carrier analogy, explains, what separates entities such as newspapers from entities such as phone companies is whether they produce a “coherent speech product.”
From Slate • Feb. 23, 2024
We cannot stress this enough: No, an Ohio judge did not declare Google a common carrier this week.
From Washington Post • May 26, 2022
He then ran through an extended analogy in which Verizon listened to every phone call and cut off any pro-LGBT conversation, ignoring interjections that Twitter simply isn’t a common carrier and the comparison doesn’t apply.
From The Verge • May 13, 2022
Owen Turner, 50, is charged with gross negligence of a person in control of a train and gross negligence of a person having care of a common carrier, The Boston Globe reported Thursday.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 24, 2021
I suggested in a very rudimental way, in rather rudimental Spanish suited to him, that he was a common carrier, and as such under a duty to transport me.
From The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by Blount, James H.
