wrongdoer
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Chief Justice John Roberts stressed in the Jarkesy majority opinion that government penalties “designed to punish or deter the wrongdoer” are a “prototypical common law remedy.”
But that same right to sue doesn’t apply when the alleged wrongdoer is an employee of the federal government.
“Scrutinizing wrongdoers, reporters uncover competitors poised to benefit from doing business right, especially when frauds get caught.”
In any event the wrongdoer has a strong “incentive to do better,” whatever course the victim chooses.
The mayor backed Sir Mark, saying he had confidence in the commissioner's efforts to kick wrongdoers out of the Met.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.