Sentences with phrase «schools class action settlement»

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The settlement in the class action on behalf of such students will let them use oral presentations, spell - checkers, voice - recognition software, help from test proctors, and other state - approved accommodations on the Alaska High School Graduation Qualifying Exam.

A major class - action settlement that gives LAUSD teachers layoff protection at several dozen schools in high - poverty areas has been invalidated by the California 2nd District Court of Appeal.

Mayor Villaraigosa was joined today by LAUSD Deputy Superintendent John Deasy, Board Member Yolie Flores, lawyers from the ACLU - SC, Public Counsel, and Morrison & Foerster, LLP, as well as teachers from Gompers Middle School to discuss the details of the settlement agreement in Reed v. State of California, et al., a class action suit that claimed the plaintiffs» constitutional rights to a quality education was being violated by the disproportionate impact of teacher layoff at their schools.

Superior Court Judge William F. Highberger today approved the landmark settlement in Reed v. State of California, et al., a class action suit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, Public Counsel, and Morrison & Foerster, LLP, in February 2010 on behalf of students at three Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) middle schools.

Neither the clinic nor the law school were involved in the class action directly (a settlement in the shareholder proceeding involving Barkerville Gold Mines Ltd.).

In Fontaine v. Canada (Attorney General), Saskatchewan Queen's Bench Justice Neil Gabrielson found the firm billed the government too much for work related to the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement, a country - wide class action settlement which was approved about 10 Settlement Agreement, a country - wide class action settlement which was approved about 10 settlement which was approved about 10 years ago.

Osgoode Hall Law School's Investor Protection Clinic has received an $ 80,000 cy - près award from a class action settlement that will help the clinic remain open throughout the summer.

The most recent outcry was in the U.S. and resulted in a class action settlement with the Law School Admissions Council (who are responsible for administering the LSAT).

Osgoode Hall Law School's Investor Protection Clinic has received an $ 80,000 cy - près award from a class action settlement to put toward operational costs in order to remain open throughout the summer.

Mr. Arias has written, lectured and spoken on various subjects at law schools, legal seminars, webinars and legal conferences on topics including: litigating class actions, mass tort litigation, expert witness depositions and cross-examination, death care litigation, unfair business practices, business litigation, settlement issues and strategies, construction defect litigation, business torts, complex litigation, electronic evidence, discovery, jury selection, the use of jury consultants and focus groups, employment law, trial of class actions and representative actions.

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The IAP is the mechanism through which people who suffered serious physical, sexual, or psychological abuse at residential schools can apply for additional compensation on top of the base class action settlement.

Unlike the comprehensive Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement (IRSSA), which was implemented by the government in September 2007 and remains the largest class action settlement in Canadian history, Sixties Scoop lawsuits remain stuck in the deathly pipeline of legal litigation facing strong governmental resistance (Ontario's Sixties Scoop is no exception as the case was bitterly fought and litigated for eigSettlement Agreement (IRSSA), which was implemented by the government in September 2007 and remains the largest class action settlement in Canadian history, Sixties Scoop lawsuits remain stuck in the deathly pipeline of legal litigation facing strong governmental resistance (Ontario's Sixties Scoop is no exception as the case was bitterly fought and litigated for eigsettlement in Canadian history, Sixties Scoop lawsuits remain stuck in the deathly pipeline of legal litigation facing strong governmental resistance (Ontario's Sixties Scoop is no exception as the case was bitterly fought and litigated for eight years).

While there is nothing particularly extraordinary about the outcome, the opinion reads like an «A» response to a law - school «issue spotter» exam positing a suspect class action settlement.

It has its origins in the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement (the «Settlement») which resolved the class actions against the federal government arising from residential sSchools Settlement Agreement (the «Settlement») which resolved the class actions against the federal government arising from residential schoolsschools.

Notable mandates: current and ongoing class actions have included representing employee groups in several insolvency proceedings, including Nortel, Canwest and Plasco; representing former patients of Norman Barwin, who is alleged to have negligently inseminated his patients with the wrong sperm; representing air pilots employed by Air Canada over a breach of contract; representing former students of the residential school system, and their entitlements, under the 2007 Residential Schools Settlement Agreement; representing employees of BlackBerry Canada after a transfer of employees.

Two new issues, related but readily distinguishable, have arisen in the past few months, about the residential school experience, neither of which were public knowledge at the time of the apology and certainly not at the times of the out - of - court settlement that was negotiated against a class action law suit brought against the Government and the churches.

Notable mandates: One of two negotiators for 50 Catholic entities parties to the Indian Residential School Settlement Class Action; lead counsel for Athabasca Potash Inc. during its IPO, and local counsel during its subsequent acquisition by BHP Billiton Canada Inc.; acted for Input Capital in a one - of - a-kind private placement of shares offering used to fund canola streaming contracts for farmers seeking capital; assisted Blake Cassels & Graydon LLP in the acquisition by the Great - West Life Insurance Co. of several shopping centres across Canada; involved in development of, and represents, Canadian Light Source Inc., the country's only national synchrotron research facility.

The IAP is part of the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement, the largest class action settlement in CanadiaSettlement Agreement, the largest class action settlement in Canadiasettlement in Canadian history.

The class actions were resolved in 2007 with the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement that is intended to provide compensation to former students and to encourage truth and healing through the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada.

We have also represented the Government of Canada (with a Torys team led by the former Supreme Court of Canada Justice Frank Iacobucci) in resolving approximately 15,000 Indian Residential Schools claims and more than 20 class actions commenced in virtually all Canadian provinces and territories; the settlement was the largest and most complex class action settlement in Canadian history.

In a case that once again emphasizes the importance of employers following the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) for employment screening, attorneys for thousands of mass - transit drivers and school bus drivers announced approval of a class action settlement of 4.3 million dollars for failure to adhere to the requirements of the FCRA.