aider and abettor

The contract called for common sense legal reform to prohibit aider and abettor liability.

Deserter, murderer, aider and abettor of his enemy.

For example, the person in the crowd who encourages the batterer to "hit him again" is an aider and abettor but not a co-conspirator.

Instantly to turn upon me, charging that I have no sense of the enormity of the crime itself, but am its aider and abettor!

The question is one of liability for those accused of being "aiders and abettors" of securities fraud.

That's right-the leaders of her Church that Beeny 16 is the actual aider and abettor of satan.

Congress did not restore an old law that had held investment banks, lawyers and accountants liable in investor lawsuits as "aiders and abettors" of fraud.

"Rebel sympathizers," he believed, with much reason, were all around - "spies, informers, supplyers, and aiders and abettors of their cause in a thousand ways."

The case makes the distinction between primary violators, who directly misstate or omit material facts that are relied upon by investors, and aiders and abettors.

One question now is whether plaintiffs will succeed in shifting their tactics to sue accountants and other outside professionals as primary violators rather than aiders and abettors.

The bill expands the S.E.C.'s authority by overruling the Supreme Court decision that barred suits against aiders and abettors.

"The creditors are led by entities that were aiders and abettors of the fraud," said Andrew Entwistle, a lawyer who represents the Florida state pension fund.

He creates witnesses, aiders and abettors, blackmailers, liars, kidnappers, addicts, prostitutes, bribers, torturers and corpses.

In the 2010 application for a secret warrant, the Obama administration named Rosen as "an aider and abettor and/or co-conspirator" to the leaking of classified materials.

The suits usually also sought damages from stockbrokers and accountants who, until the Federal legislation was enacted in December, could be sued as aiders and abettors of any fraud.

Mr. and Mrs. Merrywinkle are a couple who coddle themselves; and the venerable Mrs. Chopper is an aider and abettor in the same.

Lincoln imposed the suspension on "prisoners of war, spies, or aiders and abettors of the enemy," as well as on other classes of people, such as draft dodgers.

The dissenters said that the majority's analysis of Section 10(b) "leaves little doubt that the Exchange Act does not even permit the commission to pursue aiders and abettors in civil enforcement actions."

"That you would characterize them as aiders and abettors of the terrorists that attack us," he told reporters, "as far as I'm concerned that is so far over the top, it's unacceptable."

In 2004, the United States attorney's office for the Eastern District of Missouri vowed to pursue sports gambling sites, "as well as the promoters, aiders and abettors of such criminal enterprises."

'An information has been sworn before me,' said the magistrate, 'that it is apprehended you are going to fight a duel, and that the other man, Tupman, is your aider and abettor in it.

The Supreme Court's ruling reversed a long history of court decisions and SEC enforcement actions where aiders and abettors, often banks, accountants, trustees, and attorneys, were found liable under Rule 10b-5.

Principals in the second degree, also referred to as aiders and abettors, were persons who were present at the scene of the crime and provided aid or encouragement to the principal in the first degree.

In his majority opinion, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy said the issue was "not whether imposing private civil liability on aiders and abettors is good policy but whether aiding and abetting is covered by the statute."

They bemoaned the majority's reversal of this practice, saying that the ability to sue aiders and abettors deters secondary actors ... from contributing to fraudulent activities and ensures that defrauded plaintiffs are made whole.