Sentences with phrase «arguing against class»

In arguing against class action status, Uber had submitted sworn statements from hundreds of drivers supporting the company.

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David Sanford, chairman of Sanford Heisler Sharp, the law firm that argued the largest - ever employment gender discrimination case to go to trial — a class action suit against Novartis Pharmaceuticals that resulted in a $ 253 million jury award for plaintiffs in 2010, reduced post-trial to $ 175 million — noted that in that case, the company had just three investigators for a workforce of thousands.

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.

Bartz argued that the Employee Retirement Income Security Act would now pre-empt state law under the rule and that the rule improperly created a private right of action that could set up class - action lawsuits against insurance companies and agents.

James Damore, a former Google engineer who was fired in August after posting a memo to an internal Google message board arguing that women may not be equally represented in tech because they are biologically less capable of engineering, has filed a class action lawsuit against the company in Santa Clara Superior Court in Northern California.

Indeed, I suspect that the vast majority of those connected with First Things would argue against the Bodies exhibition even if all its specimens came from middle - class Americans who had unquestionably decided to donate their bodies to science for the anatomical education of the masses.

Laughing — yet again you fail, you sit here and you tell me in one breath that i'm wrong in dealing with absolutes, Yet My whole point in the previous post was to point out that I can't blame science for killing Billions of people because they created the bombs and guns to do so... Just like you can't blame Christianity for people using violence against others, it's the people not the ideology that caused the violence, and i believe that... for whatever reason you apparently missed that and tried to make me sound like i honestly blame science for killing billions... so... maybe you need some reading and comprehension classes... i du n no, just would appreciate if you're going to argue with me, that you actually read my responses.

I wrote earlier this summer that if we didn't sign a top - class centre - half the transfer window would've been a failure and for me it's hard to argue against this, but if we forget the players we haven't got and focus on the ones...

While Lionel Messi pours the goals in against teams in bankruptcy protection, when Maradona was in Serie A even the likes of Brescia, Udinese and Cremonese had world - class players in their ranks... And no - one can argue that Messi has a far more talented team around him both at club and international level, and far less competition at club level than Maradona ever had.

John P. McCormick has argued that the Cambridge School interpretation of Machiavelli that Pettit admits to relying on fails to see the extent to which Machiavelli is a theorist who relies on the class struggle of the popolo against the ambition of the grandi, the notables, to sustain a republic and is primarily concerned to find ways of empowering the mass against the elites.

De Blasio and Murphy vowed to work together to rally against the GOP's massive federal tax overhaul that calls for the elimination of popular tax deductions — such as state and local property tax costs and student loan interest payments — which they argue will hurt middle - class taxpayers.

The main trends I argued against in that essay were the liberal consensus, the persistence of class and the permanence of monopoly and oligopoly.

Children fighting on the playground, teachers struggling to control a difficult class, parents arguing about the time their teenager should be home, neighbour disputes over land boundaries or anti social behaviours, protests against tyrannical leaders — conflict happens.

Imagine a teacher who argued against Claudia Geocaris's use of extrapolation in her science class.

Emerging market stocks and bonds are having a rough year, but Russ argues against abandoning the asset class.

Following the positive news regarding the Foreign & Commonwealth Office lifting its advice against all but essential travel to the whole of Egypt, the recent incidents in Cairo surrounding the third anniversary of the uprising, should not overshadow Egypt's world class appeal as a tourist destination, argues the national tourist board.

He successfully argued an appeal at the 10th Circuit that affirmed the dismissal by the U.S. Court of the Northern District of Oklahoma of a putative class action against Goodman Manufacturing alleging that Goodman breached its warranty on 800,000 air conditioning units due to an unmanifested defect.

He also has substantial experience in trial courts, briefing and arguing dispositive motions as well as defending against class certification.

Koskie Minsky argued that in its attempt to win carriage, Rochon Genova disclosed its preliminary expert reports against the interest of the class.