Sentences with phrase «against plaintiffs with»

James raises what I think is the most powerful objection to loser pays: that it could bar the courthouse door against plaintiffs with strong claims but modest means.

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CELGENE SHAREHOLDER ALERT: CLAIMSFILER REMINDS INVESTORS WITH LOSSES IN EXCESS OF $ 100,000 of Lead Plaintiff Deadline in Class Action Lawsuit Against Celgene Corporation - CELG

Last May the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit sided with the plaintiffs and issued an injunction against the order.

It is the first defendant to settle and agreed to help the plaintiffs with their case against the remaining defendants, which are American Airlines Group (aal), Delta Air Lines (dal) and United Continental Holdings (ual).

ILRC actively advocates on transportation issues and is a lead plaintiff in a case against BART for failing to ensure that people with disabilities can access the regional mass transit system.

A federal judge dismissed the lawsuit against Gawker Media in March 2016 after concluding that its editors provided the sole eligible plaintiff, Aulistar Mark, with «training and mentorship that [was of] the same sort of hands - on instruction he received from his educational institution.»

Jack, District Judge: Plaintiff, McIlhenny Company, a corporation of the State of Maine, which, with its predecessors, for many years past, has manufactured at Avery Island, Louisiana, a condiment known as «Tabasco Pepper Sauce,» brings this action against defendant Ed.

Not only did defendant adopt the name and imitate the bottles and cartons in use by plaintiff, but at the very beginning, when he started the manufacture and sale of his sauce in competition with the long established business of plaintiff, he printed on his bottle labels a caution to use «only the genuine Evangeline,» thus apparently seeking to create the impression that such «Evangeline» Tabasco Sauce was an old and established brand, against spurious imitations of which the public should be warned.

In that case Gaidry, a manufacturer of a sauce labelled «Tabasco Pepper Sauce,» brought suit against McIlhenny Company for damages for alleged wrongful conduct in interfering with the plaintiff's business by falsely and in bad faith representing to dealers throughout the country that it had an exclusive trade - mark in the name «Tabasco,» and threatening injunction and other legal proceedings against those who handled any sauce called «Tabasco» not made by the said McIlhenny Company.

As a result, two gay couples and two straight couples have filed suit against her in Kentucky, and a judge has sided with the plaintiffs.

The pro-charter-school group Families for Excellent Schools said even more needs to be done to comply with state and federal bullying laws, which is why the organization is a plaintiff in a class - action lawsuit against DOE, filed in April 2016, along with 23 parents whose children have experienced bullying and harassment in city schools.

A number of witnesses were to testify in favor of a marriage equality plank in the platform: Marc Solomon, national campaign director for Freedom to Marry; Allison Herwitt, legislative director for the Human Rights Campaign; Army Chief Warrant Officer Charlie Morgan, a lesbian New Hampshire guardsman with stage - four incurable breast cancer and a plaintiff in Servicemembers Legal Defense Network's lawsuit against the Defense of Marriage Act; Michael Macleod - Ball, the American Civil Liberties Union's chief of staff for the Washington Legislative Office; and Aaron Zellhoefer, a gay delegate to the Democratic National Convention representing the National Stonewall Democrats.

Lasher is running against Marisol Alcantara, a former union organizer for the New York State Nurses Association, and Robert Jackson, a former councilman who is also a plaintiff in a landmark case by the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, which argued that New York was under funding schools and not meeting its constitutional burden to provide children with a «sound basic education.»

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Of the eight people named as plaintiffs in a lawsuit against Gov. Andrew Cuomo, six are from Staten Island with two from Brooklyn.

The groups also sent an open letter to Gov. Andrew Cuomo asking him to rescind the 13 - hour rule and declare the 24 - hour workday illegal, said JoAnn Lum, an organizer with the National Mobilization Against SweatShops (NMASS), one of plaintiffs in the lawsuit.

Eliot was listed as the plaintiff in the short - lived case against his spouse, which came on the heels of a scathing Post exclusive that revealed the ousted governor was canoodling with former Bill de Blasio spokesman Lis Smith.

Taking audience questions about American Violet at the Telluride film festival, she alleged that even after district attorney John Paschall settled out of court with her and the other plaintiffs in an ACLU suit, he enforced an informal employment blacklist against her in her hometown of Hearne, Texas.

The fiery California atheist who last week lost his bid at the U.S. Supreme Court to get «under God» stricken from the Pledge of Allegiance vows to continue the fight with new plaintiffs, preferably in cases against school districts all over the country.

What it is: Filed in 2007, the federal lawsuit filed against the state for failing to ensure special - education students are served in the «least restrictive environment» reached final settlement this week with a consent agreement between the plaintiffs and the Christie administration.

Appeal from judgment entered by the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Mark D. Fox, Magistrate Judge), which held that defendant Board of Education of the Newburgh Enlarged City School District intentionally discriminated against plaintiff Santina Polera in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act, 42 U.S.C. § 12101 et seq., and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, 29 U.S.C. § 794, and awarded damages to plaintiff.

Why HarperCollins and Hachette Are Settling In statements, both HarperCollins and Hachette rejected the Justice Department's charges and indicated they are settling to avoid expensive legal battles against, as Hachette put it, «government plaintiffs with virtually unlimited resources.»

Pursuant to Section 2 (b) of the Antitrust Procedures and Penalties Act («APPA» or «Tunney Act»), 15 U.S.C. 16 (b)- (h), Plaintiff United States of America («United States») files this Competitive Impact Statement relating to the proposed Final Judgment against Defendants Hachette Book Group, Inc. («Hachette»), HarperCollins Publishers L.L.C. («HarperCollins»), and Simon & Schuster, Inc. («Simon & Schuster»; collectively with Hachette and HarperCollins, «Settling Defendants»), submitted on April 11, 2012, for entry in this antitrust proceeding.

News — Interview with Justin D. Gawronski, a plaintiff in the class - action lawsuit filed against Amazon in the wake of «the Orwell situation.»

If you were served with a complaint but ignored it or failed to appear in court, the judge will most likely enter a default judgment against you in favor of the plaintiff and the plaintiff wins by default.

• engaging with plaintiffs in the various lawsuits against the Company to seek timely resolutions.

«Hereby stipulate that the claims within this adversary proceeding against ECMC may and shall be dismissed without prejudice, pursuant to Bankruptcy Rule 7041, to permit Plaintiff to enter into a repayment program with the Department of Education.»

a. Following the approval of this Stipulated Judgment by the Bankruptcy Court and the dismissal of this adversarial proceeding against DOE, DOE will provide a copy of this Stipulated Judgment to Plaintiff s loan processor with instruction to adjust Plaintiff's monthly payment to $ 75 / month;

Plaintiff's claims against DOE are hereby dismissed, with prejudice, and without costs or attorney's fees to Plaintiff or the DOE;

With the help of the Animal Legal Defense Fund, the plaintiffs filed suit against Barbour County in 2016 for its failure to maintain a county shelter or employ an impounding officer.

 In this amended Complaint, the judge agreed 2 of the plaintiffs had pleaded the necessary facts and could proceed with their cases against Petland for RICO violations.

But just yesterday it seems that the plaintiff's attorney agreed to dismiss Gearbox with prejudice (meaning they can't file another suit against them concerning Aliens: Colonial Marines) and in return Gearbox won't be seeking legal fees.

In April 2013, two plaintiffs attempted to bring a class action lawsuit against Sega and Gearbox, which they claim used «bait and switch» tactics with the game's marketing.

As we saw in the March 21 courtroom tutorial hearing, the judge was not impressed with one of the main bits of accusatory evidence about the «conspiracy,» and the one Chevron attorney speaking at the hearing, Theodore Boutrous, had never seen the plaintiffs» «conspiracy evidence» before — which could actually undermine other lawsuits against energy companies.

After working vigilantly with the Town of Morrison for over two years in an attempt to have the ordinance amended, the plaintiffs very reluctantly brought this lawsuit against former Chairman Todd Christensen, former Code Enforcer Mark Roberts, and the Town, only after Christensen's repeated message to residents — if you don't like it, sue us.

Hansen helped connect Olson with another child plaintiff previously, when Olson was looking to find children who would act as plaintiffs in a lawsuit against government agencies.

(This desire of the defendant to defend himself against a multi-million dollar lawsuit is deemed by Mann's acolytes to be evidence of an unhealthy «obsession» with the plaintiff.

Accordingly, I am unable to agree with the plaintiff's contention that the defendant's conduct in the mediation was contrary to the requirements of s. 258.6 of the Insurance Act, such that it ought to attract punitive cost sanctions against the defendant.

We do have one of the lawyer - plaintiffs in the suit against Avvo, John Henry Browne, as a guest, along with two well - known bloggers, Carolyn Elefant and Denise Howell.

Plaintiff allegedly was further retaliated against when Mercado assigned him the oldest and weakest narcotics cases, threatened him with disciplinary action, and attempted to sabotage his trial work.

She would not be able to recover against a doctor who had not been negligent with respect to the information that he or she did have; yet she also would not be able to recover against a manufacturer who, despite having failed in its duty to warn, could escape liability on the basis that, had the doctor been appropriately warned, he or she still would not have passed the information on to the plaintiff.

[61] As I see it, the plaintiff's claim against the manufacturer should be dealt with in accordance with the following rationale.

«This is going to cause great uncertainty going forward in complex litigation against multiple defendants in federal courts and in state cases with plaintiffs in one state and a defendant in another state.»

This week on the legal affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we speak with attorney John Henry Browne, a lead plaintiff in the lawsuit against the new lawyer rating service Avvo.

Approximately two years following the accident, the plaintiff filed a claim against the driver of the truck that rear - ended them — in addition to several parties associated with that driver.

They will have their own legal representatives fighting back against the claims of the Louisville accident lawyer the plaintiff works with.

Additionally, Plaintiff brought a negligence action against the defendant for damages associated with the accident that he caused.

If a plaintiff is contemplating purchasing first pay insurance it is important that they reach an understanding with their lawyer as to whether or not the unpaid disbursements will be a first claim against the policy limits in the event of an adverse cost award.

Plaintiff jury verdict in CT Complex Litigation Court with damages awarded against business client of $ 0.00.

The massive settlement — which must still be approved by 95 percent of the plaintiffs and a Shasta County judge — will end litigation against the health care giant in connection with the surgeries.

Because neither party obtained a monetary recovery, the claims against trustee were not dismissed, and plaintiff obtained an equitable judgment against trustee, the case — with respect to routine costs — fell within the catch - all provision of CCP § 1032 (a)(4) which allows the trial court discretion to determine the prevailing party by comparing the relief sought with that obtained, along with the parties» litigation objectives.