Volkswagen Emissions Investigation Zeroes in on Two Engineers

Re:Volkswagen Emissions Investigation Zeroes in on Two Engin... by x3n0ph3n3 on Monday October 05, 2015 @05:34PM (#10335140)

Typically ignorance of the law is not an excuse when found disobeying it, and there are more laws than any reasonable person can know.

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Re:Volkswagen Emissions Investigation Zeroes in on Two Engin... by vonmoltke on Monday October 05, 2015 @05:43PM (#10335200)

TO both x3n0ph3n3 and mkaziz:

Knowledge of the act, not knowledge of the law. There are very few contexts in which you can be punished for not knowing an illegal act took place, and they are all situations where you should have known but were negligent.

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Re:Volkswagen Emissions Investigation Zeroes in on Two Engin... by 001sky on Monday October 05, 2015 @06:05PM (#10335349)

negligence casts a very wide remit, but applies mostly to professionals (ie, credentialed staff). general executives are granted considerable leeway with respect to negligence in many context it would appear through things like the 'business judgement rule', where bein incompetent is a legitimate excuse and not presumtive negligence. INAL but just throwing this out there for discussion to see some other sides of the issue.

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