Sentences with phrase «about plaintiffs»

It's great to require plaintiffs to disclose their financial interests and prior litigation, but in jurisdictions that seal more documents than necessary, those disclosure requirements will do very little to equip future defendants with information about the plaintiffs» histories.
Defendant used Google's Blogger service to write a post — about plaintiffs» business practices — that plaintiffs found objectionable.
He has also served as the director of the ITLA «Rookie Camp» program teaching new lawyers about plaintiffs» civil litigation practice.
Remember, however, that the courts are becoming increasingly strict about plaintiffs» obligations to move actions forward.
Discovering and analyzing everything about plaintiffs and their backgrounds helps Suzanne assist in crafting a defense that allows Lightfoot's client's story to be the one that resonates with the jury and wins the day.
Even if the Equifax report contained information properly characterized as information about the plaintiffs» «private affairs and concerns,» which was «invaded» by the firm's obtaining the report, the firm had lawful justification for doing so.
Chris Morgan: So just to talk, I wanted to talk a little bit about the plaintiffs who were named in the lawsuit, as it seems even aside from those who are working with the ABA, it sounds like they were doing some pretty important public service work.
Recently, a federal judge approved a qualified protective order for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act information that prevents Fresenius or its employees from discussing protected health information about plaintiffs with their doctors.
I will start recommending More Perfect to them as a way to encourage them to think about the plaintiffs and defendants in the cases they read in my classes and their other classes.
Under a new law that was passed, courts will no longer be allowed to inquire about plaintiffs» immigration statuses in personal injury cases.
He created a site in 2007 which targeted a business and its CEO, making a number of disparaging comments about the Plaintiffs and alleging involvement in a Ponzi scheme.
View key facts and statistics from the Vergara v. California trial, including information about Plaintiffs» witnesses, the long - term impact of ineffective teachers and the harm caused by California's permanent employment, dismissal and «last - in, first - out» layoff laws.
According to the lawyers, until the court restrained the paper, it will further «publish or cause to be published the said or similar words defamatory of the plaintiffs», as it has threatened to publish stories about the plaintiffs.
«An order of the court compelling the first defendant to pay an amount of GHC400, 000 as punitive and exemplary damages to the plaintiff as damages for the defamatory comments (he the defendant said about the plaintiff».
I've got mixed feelings about the plaintiff lawyer being Gloria Allred.
(The link was part of a blog entry about the plaintiff's efforts to suppress someone else's stories about him.)
On the eve of trial, «you discover pictures and other details on a social networking website about plaintiff's recent trip to the International Bowling Museum & Hall of Fame, including a picture of plaintiff proudly holding a fluorescent orange bowling ball and a four - foot tall gilded trophy dated four days earlier.»
For instance, suppose that in a defamation case, the jury was asked to decide only whether or not the defendant published the defamatory statements about the plaintiff.
Where the occasion is shown to be privileged, the bona fides of the defendant is presumed and the defendant is free to publish, with impunity, remarks which may be defamatory and untrue about the plaintiff.
Any evidence about a plaintiff's accident - related injuries can help determine if they meet the tort threshold for damages should the claim go to trial.
This one's worth quoting, because it's about the plaintiff's expert and provides seems to provide a good explanation for why the plaintiff was attempting to use gossip to discredit the defendant's expert.
Public disclosure of embarrassing private facts about the plaintiff.
An investigation that Uber initially claimed it knew nothing about began with a simple request from Uber's general counsel to the company's chief security officer in December 2015: «Could we find out a little more about this plaintiff
«I learn about the plaintiff, I learn about the plaintiff's strategy, even about the attorneys» strategy,» Tsay said.
Further, as Mr Dibb also pointed out, the people, to whom the defendants published the article, would have used the defendants» search engine specifically to obtain information about the plaintiff.
Levant had also made erroneous statements about the plaintiff's employment prospects, and did not update all of his blog post when informed that this was incorrect,
In this case the parties exchanged a total of seven emails about the plaintiff Girouard's possible purchase of the defendant Druet's condominium apartment in Moncton.
It also tells the court nothing about the plaintiff's theory of the case other than that the plaintiff was injured in an accident.
... While on the evidence by Dr. Wooden seeking to offer an opinion about the plaintiff's injuries such as the inferences to be drawn from the observations in the x-rays or with respect to the cause or mechanism of the injury would be prohibited because of the plaintiff's failure to comply with Rule 40A.
Any evidence by Dr. Wooden seeking to offer an opinion about the plaintiff's injuries, such as the inferences to be drawn from the observations in the x-rays or with respect to the cause or mechanism of the injury, would be prohibited because of the plaintiff's failure to comply with Rule 40A.
«[T] he jury's conclusion about the plaintiff's level of emotional trauma might well reflect its view concerning the reprehensibility of the defendant's conduct.»
I find the following facts about the plaintiff's condition have been established on a balance of probabilities.
The court further ruled that the argument about the plaintiff's own comparative negligence (remember in Georgia if you are 51 % responsible for your own injury, you get nothing) was also an issue for the jury.
In coming to his conclusion about the plaintiff's credibility, the trial judge relied heavily on entries from the plaintiff's Facebook page.
In drawing extremely negative conclusions about the plaintiff's credibility, the judge concluded his social media analysis as follows:
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[56] I conclude that the absence of contemporaneous medical information about the plaintiff between 2013 and 2017 raises an issue of the weight that is to be given to the plaintiff's expert evidence.
the performance concerns raised by the plaintiff's new manager were largely unsubstantiated and resulted from a misunderstanding about the plaintiff's duties;
Her suit claimed both compensatory and punitive damages, as well as an injunction to halt «any further false statements» about the plaintiff:
With respect to the remaining witnesses, each, as I understand the submissions, has something to say about the plaintiff's most significant claim, his loss of opportunity to earn income, in that each either works with or supervises the plaintiff in his current employment.
Attached to the complaint was information about plaintiff's work experience, occupations, employers, and worksite locations.
I have reservations about the plaintiff's resolve in that regard.
[19] Concerning the third factor, whether the document would prevent the determination of the issue on the merits, I have heard evidence including the plaintiff's evidence and the defendants» evidence and expert evidence about the plaintiff's activity and her level of disability.
Mr. Justice Smith found that while that could be the case, here it was not necessary because the Defendant had already received a report from their second psychiatrist who opined about the Plaintiff's condition despite not physically examining her.
«In other words, he will know about the financing, but the defendant will not — and no defendant yet has come up with any justification for being told about a plaintiff's sensitive financial arrangements other than pure voyeurism,» wrote Christopher Bogart, CEO of Burford Capital.
[14] Here, the parties differed, as did some of the expert witnesses, about the Plaintiff's prognosis; and the extent to which the injuries resulting from the accident, would affect his capacity to earn income in future.
In addition, the judge concluded that the methodology rested on the unreliable assumption that there is a certain monetary «value» of life of an average person and that the methodology used to calculate the loss of enjoyment of life did not take into account any facts about the plaintiff.
The CBC defendants submit, and I agree, that to expand the tort of invasion of privacy to include circumstances of public disclosure of embarrassing private facts about a plaintiff, would risk undermining the law of defamation as it has evolved and been pronounced by the Supreme Court.
The claim arose out of an investigative journalism program that the CBC aired about the plaintiff's ethics.
The Defendant, by herself or by her employee, agents, or otherwise, and any other person with knowledge of the terms of this Order, be and is hereby restrained from disseminating, publishing, or otherwise disclosing any private information about the Plaintiff, his sexual practices, or anything that would connect him to having had a sexual relationship with the Defendant (the «Private Information»), until the trial or other disposition of this proceeding or until further Order of this Honourable Court...
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