Sentences with phrase «other legal fights»

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.

Not exact matches

The state government will introduce legislation into parliament tomorrow designed to finalise the long - running Bell Group legal case, in which the Insurance Commission of WA and other creditors are fighting over a $ 1.7 billion payout.

The Canadian government is buoyed by other recent developments in Canada-U.S. trade: this week Boeing has dropped its legal fight against Bombardier and there are indications of a potential settlement in a dispute over glossy paper.

Texas led the legal fight against President Barack Obama's plan to protect up to four million immigrants from deportation, joined by 25 other Republican - led states.

Opponents of legal weed in Oregon say they would take their fight to the Oregon legislature, pushing for stricter laws designed to limit access to pot by children, among other efforts.

However, the case hinges on issues the ride - hail company — which is no stranger to legal battles — has long fought across the globe: Background checks and being treated like other for - hire companies.

Trump... has increasingly complained in recent weeks that he needed to consider all options for fighting Mueller and not simply agree to an interview... other members of the legal team share Trump's view that they should take a more confrontational approach with the special counsel, including lawyer Jay Sekulow, who has urged the group to consider the pros and cons of fighting a subpoena, according to people familiar with his advice.

In some states, like Ohio, fights have broken out among anti-abortion activists over how to use their new - found power, with one faction pushing for sweeping new restrictions and the other urging more incremental limits that they say will withstand legal challenges.

Who then will lead the fight for full legal rights and recognition of our moral minority in medicine or any other profession?

Before we reach irreconcilable differences regarding what should be legal, our energies would be more productively spent on the common goal of reducing the number of unwanted pregnancies rather than fighting each other.

NYC Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito broke with Mayor Bill de Blasio over his call not to grant violent felons and those convicted of other egregious crimes access to a proposed $ 16.4 million city fund to provide free legal services to undocumented immigrants fighting deportation under Trump.

While Graham and others questioned the PSC's ability to arbitrate environmental rather than utility issues, the commission's lawyers questioned whether the plaintiffs had legal standing since the organizations fighting the subsidy were mostly from the lower Hudson Valley, which is some four hours away from the nuclear plants.

But a day later, he would not specify what legal action would look like — though he maintained that he and other mayors across the country would fight in court — nor explain how the city would handle retaliatory cuts to federal funding for the NYPD, the New York City Housing Authority and the city's public hospital system.

Dear Ms. Exposito did u know that Florida taxpayers were forced to reimburse over 16 million dollars in private attorney fees for those darling Pubs Pam Bodi, the Gov (now there is a liar for u) and top Pubs for useless legal fights over water and other matters.

He has fought successfully to protect and increase funding for Medicaid, school health clinics, AIDS services, and other health concerns and was the author of legislation to provide legal services for persons with disabilities.

While Rep. Tom DeLay's (R) legal troubles and battle for a 12th term have dominated the political landscape for much of the last six months, there are three other Texas races of import that could well be decided today: the fight for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination and congressional primaries in the 17th and 28th congressional districts.

Representatives of the Roman Catholic Church, Orthodox rabbis and other conservative religious leaders fought the measure, and their GOP allies pressed hard for stronger legal protections for religious organizations.

Thanks in part to several legal fights, journal fees in the Netherlands have become public, and calculations by Waaijers have shown that Elsevier charges two or even three times as much per article by Dutch authors as three other large publishers.

In real life, Reems was jailed on obscenity charges and fought a lengthy legal battle with the help of none other than Alan Dershowitz while also fighting a persistent battle with hard drugs.

One student, writing about how he and his siblings were about to be removed from their home by child protective services following the arrest of their mother, described how their mother's friend, whom they had never met, fought for legal custody of them when no other family member appeared.

«Tis the season for «the war on Christmas» stories, with widely reported fights over the placement of manger scenes on public property and legal wrangling over other aspects of the national holiday that dares not speak its name.

We invest as very active owners, preferring to have strong friendly relationships with the portfolio company managements and boards, but never afraid to take any and all measures that are in the best interests of protecting and creating value, including proxy fights or other legal steps.

The fund is designed to help scientists like Professor Michael Mann cope with the legal fees that stack up in fighting attempts by climate - skeptic groups to gain access to private emails and other correspondence through lawsuits and Freedom of Information Act requests at their public universities.

It's also clear that other states would have California's back and join a legal fight, or start their own.

After many years of struggling to raise this awareness, the anti-geoengineering movement has now reached a level of awakening that has brought legal experts and other essential professionals into the fight on our side.

In this particular area of climate change, many of the assertions made by respectable scientists in peer reviewed literature are not backed up by archived data, code and other materials, and long legal battles have been fought to get those essential pieces of information put out for scrutiny.

«Everywhere in the West, along the Colorado and other rivers, as officials search for water to fill current and future needs, tempers are flaring among competing water users, old rivalries are hardening and some states are waging legal fights.

After we've completed the evaluation, our legal team will aggressively fight for any financial compensation you may be legally entitled to for the injuries you've suffered and any other damages.

No matter what the reason, a case can get more complex when a trucking company is involved because companies often have greater resources than other drivers, including their own legal teams and insurance companies that will fight liability at all costs.

Other news: YLAL committee member Emmeli Sundqvist wrote for Solicitors Journal about recent developments in legal aid and the fight to reinstate a minimum salary for trainee solicitors.

Andrew J. Blischak, the other member of our accomplished legal team, has interned in both criminal defense and personal injury firms, so that by the time he joined our practice he was already able to vigorously defend clients against criminal charges as well as to fight aggressively for high personal injury settlements and verdicts.

Elie Mystal, an editor of Above the Law, recently stated in his article Outsourcing: It's Not Just About the Money, that while some law firms are committed to fending off outsourcing until the bitter end; others are preparing themselves for the fight to remain the primary legal advisor to their clients.

More established corporations may have the resources to fight a costly legal battle at every stage, in comparison to startups and other smaller publicly traded entities, he says.

February saw the hard work pay off of Rights of Women and other domestic violence organisations which have been fighting the restrictive domestic violence legal aid eligibility criteria.

The World Bank, the African Development Bank, the Nordic Investment Bank, and other multilateral and bilateral development partners with a stake in the fight against corruption, including the United Nations and regional organizations such as the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, academia, and research institutes, have launched a study (the Study) under the auspices of the Global Forum on Law, Justice, and Development, a mechanism shared by a worldwide network of stakeholders designed to capture, co-generate, exchange, and disseminate innovative legal solutions for development.

Our legal team of personal injury attorneys have over 50 years of experience fighting on behalf of our clients who are injured in roofing accidents and a wide range of other incidents as well.

Attorneys Scott F. Lewis and Mark J. Ferraro, along with our legal staff, take a team approach to fight for your objectives, whether that involves a serious accident, ending a marriage, drafting a will or other legal issues.

Whether you've been in a vehicle auto accident and searching for an experieced professional Doraville personal injury lawyer to discuss your legal rights and obligations under the law, suffered from a serious injury and / or wrongful death of your family member of friend due to the mistake and / or inaction of some other, and / or searching for a diligent Doraville car accident lawyer for the purpose of court legal representation, the Doraville personal injury lawyers together with wrongful death attorneys here at Zeribe Law Offices will fight for you well to recover 100 % of the compensation available according to Georgia law.

For years consumer advocacy groups and others have fought, with little success, to increase public awareness of these product defect legal liabilities and require the manufacturers of fluoroquinolones to participate in these efforts.

Those are the things that help you distinguish yourself from the crowd because now you're saying, «Hey, look, this is actual positive client feedback that I'm putting to work to demonstrate my, whatever you call it, unique selling proposition,» or what helps you stand out from all of the other legal marketing that just reads like we're super aggressive, we fight really hard, we have 500 years of experience and we went to the best law school.

Butler & Company's mission and philosophy is to take on the legal system for the average citizen, whether it's fighting impaired driving charges and IRP or ADP suspensions, fighting for a fair and equitable settlement against ICBC or other insurance companies for your personal injuries, or for your job back against big employers.

Fearing that such a takeover would threaten the very existence of its integral legal reform projects, Jim Robb and others took the matter before the President of the University and succesfully fought to save its independence.

Patrick J. Murphy is ready to assist you if you need a DUI lawyer, assistance with fighting allegations of drug crimes or theft offenses, or legal representation regarding sex crimes, assault, or property offenses, among other charges.

I fervently hope that you and other erstwhile supporters of ABS will have the courage of epiphany and will eschew the worst idea to hit the profession in centuries, and will instead (1) strive to maintain the hard - won full and uncompromised independence of the legal profession, (2) fight against the greedy forces that would cartelize the delivery of legal services to the permanent detriment of the public and the profession, (3) be eternally vigilant in preserving our privilege / right of self - regulation, and (4) strive assiduously toward identifying and implementing effective ways (we pretty much already know them) to bring down the one horrific barrier to justice.

Greenpeace has said it will join the councils in the fight, and other environmental groups are eyeing up the possibilities for legal action as well as protest and campaigning work.

I think it will be poor comfort to the reasonable litigant on the other side to know there is more A2J if they are paying legal bills (albeit smaller legal bills — maybe) to fight an unreasonable party who has more access to the system.

Trade mark registration, patenting, development of and legal support for licensing and other agreements, legal assistance in fighting counterfeits

Carter is a 2012 ABA Legal Rebel and is the author of two ABA best sellers: Flash Mob Law: The Legal Side of Planning and Participating in Pillow Fights, No Pants Rides, and Other Shenanigans and the newly - released The Legal Side of Blogging: How Not to get Sued, Fired, Arrested or Killed.

If you would like to avoid these or any other penalties related to your traffic ticket, your best option may be to fight the ticket in court with the help of a legal representative.

The Canary Watch site is also another reminder of the larger fight, being waged by Twitter and others, to disclose the legal processes the government is using to monitor citizens in the first place.