Bad Faith The most common form of inauthenticity in the existentialism of Jean-Paul Sartre, "bad faith" is paradoxically a lie to oneself. For such self-deception to be possible, the human being must be divided against itself, one level...

. In Sartre a kind of self-deception, where this involves behaving as a mere thing rather than realizing, in acts of authentic choice, the true type of being for a human being (what Sartre calls ‘existence’, or being ‘pour soir’...

Bad faith (Latin: mala fides) is a legal concept in which a malicious motive on the part of a party in a lawsuit undermines their case. It has an effect on the ability to maintain causes of action and obtain legal remedies. Generally speaking, courts...

Avoiding or winning a bad faith claim is tricky business This column will examine three loss situations that involved bad faith claims against an agent or insurance company. (The names of the people and companies involved have been changed.) These examples do not...

Does Bush's deal with the Salvation Army shed light on a White House plan to chip away at gay fights? Troy Perry was supposed to be a perfect catch for the Bush administration. Under its "faith-based" initiative, the predominantly gay Universal Fellowship...

The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a financially troubled small businessman gave up an important right under the federal bankruptcy code because he failed to disclose all of his assets as the law requires.In a 5-4 decision, the court said Robert Marrama of Gloucester, Mass.,...

A federal appeals court refused to dismiss a lawsuit against a former Louisville police officer Monday, saying he acted in "bad faith" when he fatally shot a 19-year-old man three years ago.McKenzie Mattingly lacked justification to shoot Michael Newby in January 2004 during an undercover...