Sentences with phrase «against lawsuits by»

Her few years as an assistant attorney general defending the state against lawsuits by state prison inmates isn't enough.

As for concerns about whether or not the administration could retaliate against the lawsuits by blocking federal funding for projects like the Gateway Tunnel, Schneiderman said he's not concerned.

In 2006, the firm settled with Attorney General Eliot Spitzer to fix water damage and structural defects in a Harlem building, and three years later BFC was in court defending itself against a lawsuit by condo owners in Williamsburg who alleged defective design.

Would it protect one against a lawsuit by Fox?

HYPO # 5: A client filed a grievance against me, and is claiming that my $ 15,000 flat fee to defend a small business owner against a lawsuit by a former employee was unreasonable when I managed to resolve the case with a letter and a couple of phone calls.

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.

WASHINGTON, May 1 - A District of Columbia federal judge dismissed a lawsuit brought by state bank regulators against the U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich wrote in her decision tossing out the case, issued late on Monday.

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.

A rash of lawsuits by former interns seeking compensation has broken out in the U.S., against companies including Condé Nast and the Elite Modelling agency.

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.

The allegations were spelled out in response to a March lawsuit by Wells Fargo Securities against fund manager LJM Partners Ltd..

The gift comes after a judge ruled in favor of the CEO in a lawsuit brought against him by his brother.

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 a recent sworn deposition for a lawsuit against the company, Carmen Viramontes, a former Freedom Fidelity employee, said Cotroneo and a man named Giang Phan (he went by «Jimmy») co-owned the company.

Abramovich was in Fribourg court as part of a lawsuit brought by the London - based European Bank for Reconstruction and Development against Abramovich, Russian oil tycoon Eugene Shvidler, and the Russian energy company Gazprom Neft, a bank spokesman said Wednesday.

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.

Saudi Energy Minister Khalid Al - Falih has said it would be a risk to list in New York because of liabilities and litigation, including the climate change lawsuits against other oil companies by New York City.

The Paypal cofounder and Facebook board member also argued his bankrolling of a lawsuit brought by pro-wrestler Terry «Hulk Hogan» Bollea against media conglomerate Gawker, which ultimately drove the company into bankruptcy, was not a threat to freedom of the press.

In 2010 — the same year that NFIB joined the lawsuit against the health care law — the organization received $ 3.7 million from Crossroads GPS, a Republican campaign fund co-founded by former George Bush presidential aide Karl Rove, according to the Journal.

The lawsuit also revealed a rebellion by dozens of current and former Stanford staff against Saloner.

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 largest U.S. student loan servicer, Navient (navi), cheated borrowers out of billions of dollars, often by deceiving them about repayment options and their legal rights, the U.S. consumer financial watchdog said on Wednesday as it announced a lawsuit against the company.

Legal costs from the lawsuit by Phills against Saloner and Stanford, and from the intervention of Saloner and Stanford in the divorce case between Phills and Gruenfeld, have surely exceeded $ 2 million by now, and neither case shows any signs of wrapping up soon (in fact, Stanford and Saloner have launched a lawsuit - within - a-lawsuit against Phills over Phills» accessing of his wife's communications with Saloner.).

«Over 240» class action lawsuits by consumers against Equifax in US federal and state courts and in Canadian courts.

Undisclosed number of «putative class action lawsuits» by shareholders against Equifx and «certain» of its current and former officers and directors.

Hogan's lawsuit against you was bankrolled by Thiel, whom Gawker outed in 2007.

The lawsuit, which was secretly financed by Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel, may be a «personal vendetta» against Gawker, as Denton wrote in a memo to staffers on Monday.

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.

Part of the reason why these questions are on the table now can be traced back to a lawsuit brought by Verizon against the FCC that was settled in January of this year.

«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.

Apple is trying to expand an existing California lawsuit against Samsung by adding on patent infringement claims, trying to ensnare both Samsung's Galaxy Note 10.1 and Google's Android 4.1 operating system, called Jelly Bean.

«Even if it was human error and not intentional, one IT person is probably going to put this company out of business,» Loomis said, pointing to lawsuits that may be brought against the company by those who had their information exposed.

Ultimately, the outcome of that mistake was a lawsuit by Hogan — financed by Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel — which resulted in a $ 140 million judgement handed down against Gawker by a Florida court.

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.

, became interested in the issue after talking to the CEO of a small firm in his district, who told him that the firm's growth had been stunted by the costs of defending against patent lawsuits.

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.

Index funds are one of a number of issues in a 401 (k) lawsuit against Anthem, Inc. brought by the St. Louis law firm of Schlichter, Bogard & Denton, the big kahuna in the world of 401 (k) plan litigation, this January.

Allegations of excessive index fund fees in retirement plans are at the heart of a new proposed class action lawsuit brought by New York Life Insurance Co. employees against the company.

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.