Sentences with phrase «by filing a lawsuit against»

Spitzer also opined no financial benefit would be gained by filing a lawsuit against either the board or Dare.

Epic Games said it wasn't going to let Fornite cheaters slide, and last month, it proved just that by filing lawsuits against people who allegedly helped people cheat in its free - to - play game.

Now, thanks to Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, it appears that the job creators may have finally learned something from the extreme tactics of groups, like the Wild Earth Guardians and the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD), which have been using the courts to their advantage by filing lawsuits against the federal government.

In Ontario, it is possible to take legal steps to be compensated for this loss, by filing a lawsuit against the person who caused the death.

By filing a lawsuit against the owner of the property where you were injured, you could receive economic damages for lost income, pain and suffering, and medical expenses.

We do this by filing a lawsuit against the driver whose negligence resulted in your accident.

ARCP responded by filing a lawsuit against RCAP for terminating the deal.

Not exact matches

A counter-suit against conservative political commentator Tomi Lahren was filed Monday in a Texas court by Glenn Beck and his media outlet The Blaze, just over a week after she filed a wrongful termination lawsuit against them.

The lawsuit filed by Ingrid Avendano, Roxana del Toro Lopez and Ana Medina, who described themselves as Latina software engineers, says that Uber's compensation and other practices discriminate against women and people of color.

The film alleges that the COS was only declared tax - exempt by the IRS after it waged a decades - long campaign against the agency, which included filing dozens of lawsuits against both the organization and individual IRS workers, and hiring private investors and fake journalists to dig up incriminating information about individual IRS workers.

According to a lawsuit Quenneville filed later against Stanton, he was «abruptly and abusively» terminated in a phone call in 2011, and was told by O'Brien that the firm was downsizing as a result of difficult market conditions.

In February, the agency filed a lawsuit against RD Legal Funding LLC, alleging that the lawsuit lender had scammed 9/11 responders by paying high - cost advances on settlement payouts and lying about the terms of the advances.

While the purchase occurred more than two years ago, the controversy arose because eight holding companies controlled by Zuckerberg filed so - called «quiet title» lawsuits against hundreds of locals.

Duggan, who co-founded the company in 2013, was named in a lawsuit filed against BetterWorks in the San Francisco Superior Court on July 13, which alleged a hostile work environment in which sexist behavior was tolerated by management.

The dispute involves a lawsuit filed against Royal Dutch Petroleum over claims that the oil company was complicit in abuses committed by the Nigerian government against its citizens in the oil - rich Niger Delta.

A five - year - old lawsuit against the Ivy League school, filed by its neighbors, is challenging its tax - exempt status, Bloomberg reports.

Mylan's CEO, Heather Bresch, later had to testify before Congress, class - action lawsuits have been filed against the company, and Mylan in May was accused of overcharging the US government by $ 1.27 billion for EpiPens.

«This is a sham lawsuit about a bogus Russian collusion claim filed by a desperate, dysfunctional, and nearly insolvent Democratic Party,» said Brad Parscale, Campaign Manager of Donald J. Trump for President, Inc. «With the Democrats» conspiracy theories against the President's campaign evaporating as quickly as the failing DNC's fundraising, they've sunk to a new low to raise money, especially among small donors who have abandoned them.

Raisman has filed a lawsuit against both organizations, claiming they «knew or should have known» about abusive patterns by Nassar, a disgraced former national team doctor now in prison for sexually abusing young athletes.

In February 2018, 3M reached an agreement with the State of Minnesota that resolved the previously disclosed Natural Resource Damages (NRD) lawsuit filed by the State against the Company related to certain PFCs present in the environment.

So I felt that somebody had to prosecute them, which is essentially what I did by filing civil rights lawsuits against them.

The state is the biggest market for the two companies, and DraftKings and FanDuel fought back by filing their own lawsuits against Schneiderman.

According to a transcript obtained by The Hollywood Reporter of testimony given as part of a lawsuit filed against CBS in 2016, the TV judge takes a no nonsense approach to getting what she wants.

An offer for the studio from a group of investors led by former Obama administration official Maria Contreras - Sweet failed to produce a deal earlier this year, after New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman filed a civil lawsuit against the company and demanded more compensation for Harvey Weinstein's victims.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters)- A lawsuit filed by drivers against ride service Uber should not proceed as a class action, the company argued in a court filing on Thursday, citing written statements of support from hundreds of other Uber drivers in a case that could decide whether they are independent contractors or employees.

There are other issues to settle, including the explosive lawsuit filed by Benchmark Capital — which owns more than 10 percent of the company and has a board seat held by Matt Cohler — against Kalanick, whom the venture firm helped oust and has been trying to restrain.

Ripple responded by filing its own lawsuit against R3 in a California state court in San Francisco later on Friday.

Various law firms filed a class action lawsuit last week against Westminster - based brake company Knorr - Bremse AG and its local Pennsylvania rival Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corp. on behalf of employees affected by their «no poach» agreements.

Of the five lawsuits filed against DOL, a Topeka, Kansas court will hold the first hearing on Aug. 24 in the case brought by insurer Market Synergy.

Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed a consumer protection lawsuit today against CLA Estate Services, Inc. and CLA USA, Inc. for operating a «trust mill» by misleading hundreds of Washington seniors about estate planning, and persuading them to purchase high - commission...

As part of the settlement, Trulia agreed to drop the breach of contract lawsuit it filed against Move in February, after ListHub announced it had terminated its syndication agreement with Trulia in the wake of Trulia's acquisition by Zillow.

Other legal fights related to Uber include its battle with self - driving car company Waymo, which is suing Uber for allegedly stealing trade secrets, and a lawsuit filed by investor Benchmark against former chief executive officer Travis Kalanick claiming breach of contract.

The first oral arguments in the string of lawsuits filed against DOL's fiduciary rule were heard on Aug. 25 by Judge Randolph Moss, U.S. District judge for the District of Columbia, in the case brought by the National Association for Fixed Annuities.

A San Diego Navy veteran has joined with two other Southern Californians to file a class - action lawsuit against Facebook and others in the wake of revelations that the profile information of an estimated 87 million users was obtained without their authorization by a political consultancy firm with...

And a New York court ruled that a defamation lawsuit filed against Trump by Summer Zervos, a former contestant on The Apprentice, may go forward.

WASHINGTON — The lawsuit filed by adult film actress Stormy Daniels against President Trump bolsters claims that the $ 130,000 payment for her silence about an alleged affair likely violated federal election laws, campaign - finance watchdogs said Wednesday.

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin inflamed the ongoing conflict between the media and an unofficial alliance of readers and politicians by filing a defamation lawsuit against the New York Times Co (NYSE: NYT) Tuesday.

A pressure cooker environment is also described in a lawsuit filed by the city of Los Angeles against Wells Fargo in 2015.

Lawsuits filed against one of the nation's largest student loan servicers by the federal government's consumer watchdog and two states highlight the importance of knowing your options for repaying student loan debt.

In January, Tesla filed a lawsuit against Sterling Anderson, a former director of the company's Autopilot program, saying that he broke his employment contract by trying to recruit Tesla employees to join a new self - driving car company.

The civil lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court in Santa Monica, accuses Weinstein of causing Judd to lose a part in 1998 in the film «The Lord of the Rings» by making «baseless smears» against her.

TOKYO (AP)-- About 1,400 people filed a joint lawsuit Thursday against three companies that manufactured reactors at Japan's Fukushima Dai - ichi nuclear plant, saying they should be financially liable for damage caused by their 2011 meltdowns.

Hence, lawsuits are being filed against the Free Birth Control Rule — now including by seven states.

In March, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said the federal government would support a series of lawsuits filed by states against drug manufacturers.

They are classified as an entertainment program due to a lawsuit they filed against the FCC on W's watch which was rubberstamped by Colin Powell's son, a Bush appointee.

I wonder if Harold Camping will be ready for the possible deluge of lawsuits that might be (maybe should be) filed against him by people that truly believed him and divested themselves of all their worldy possesions or did other inane actions.

By filing a lawsuit to set aside the Mexico City policy on the basis of «international law» created outside the American political system, the CRLP has demonstrated that it firmly believes that «international law» (which has little if anything to do with the will of the American people or the representatives they elect to govern them) is nevertheless enforceable against the American people and, ultimately, the people of the world.

Lively's work in Uganda led to a lawsuit against him under the Alien Tort Claims Act, filed March 14, 2012, by Se.xual Minorities Uganda, an LGBT rights group in that country, and the Center for Consti.tutional Rights in the U.S..

The suit was filed Wednesday in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia for the college by the Becket Fund, the same law firm that is representing multiple lawsuits against the HHS policy.

The U.S. Dept. of Agriculture (USDA) announced Tuesday that after a year of delays — and a lawsuit filed against it by the Organic Trade Association (OTA)-- it has decided to withdraw the Organic Livestock and Poultry Practices (OLPP) final rule, saying it «exceeds the Department's statutory authority.»