common carrier
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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
That was the only thing Jeanine had consumed, and it was a common carrier of Cronobacter.
From New York Times ● Sep. 6, 2022
We cannot stress this enough: No, an Ohio judge did not declare Google a common carrier this week.
From Washington Post ● May 26, 2022
Florida and Texas are both, to some extent, relying on the common carrier argument.
From The Verge ● Dec. 16, 2021
A sleeping car company operating in connection with ordinary trains is not a common carrier, nor an innkeeper as to the baggage of a passenger.
From Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman by Albert Sidney Bolles
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