Sentences with phrase «as frivolous cases»

Employer defendants also are dissatisfied with the system, often feeling «held up» by what they see as frivolous cases.

Not exact matches

Yieldify CEO Jay Radia said the company does not comment on ongoing legal cases, but slammed Bounce Exchange as a «tyrant» and asserted that Yieldify «will not get bullied by any organisation that brings forward frivolous and unfair claims and misuse legal systems for their advantage.»

His insinuation that these cases were baseless and brought to harass is farcical, given that they were largely successful and none were sanctioned or dismissed as frivolous.

I know some people think of Hollywood as frivolous and wasteful, and while that may be true in some cases, it can also bring attention to important issues in our world.

If this were a courtroom, the case would be thrown out as being frivolous.

Unlike some other proposals that bar candidates from contesting elections if charged with criminal cases, this solution would not vitiate the presumption of innocence, and should be seen as a «privilege» given to elected representatives, an opportunity to quickly clear their names of malicious or frivolous allegations.

It adds that the current «frivolous» lawsuit should be rejected as it contains the same allegations put forward in the first case.

As was evident at last week's House Judiciary Committee hearing, while they try to link caps to «frivolous lawsuits» (which are not a problem to begin with), in reality caps only apply to the most seriously injured victims, who have already won their case and proven that the health care provider was negligent.

Mr. Dick urges judges «to be bold enough to throw (frivolous) suits out», as if there are lots of these kinds of cases being filed that somehow threaten «a potential civic disaster».

There are other causes, such as termination of grant (Dobkin v. JHU), workplace - related (Stephenz - Frazier v. NIH, Battle v. Burwell), contract squabbles (IntraComm v. Bajaj), disposition of frozen embryoes (Doe v. Obama; Doe v. Shalala), schedule 1 classification of marijuana (Krumm v. Holder), FOIS (PETA v. NIH, HHS), and then a number of cases, dismissed, where it's impossible to say what the issue was (Smith v. Donahoe (no legal claim), Rivera v. FDA, Scott v. NIH (frivolous litigation).

By treating the claim as an asset with a value that can be measured in the marketplace, Juridica adds important incentives to the corporate litigation and arbitration system: far greater transparency, reduction of unnecessary costs, faster resolution of cases, and a reduction in frivolous claims — with better outcomes for businesses.

Even Democrats disapprove of those coupon settlement shakedowns, where lawyers make big fees as part of coupon settlements that either sell good cases short, or satisfy the extortive demands that come with a frivolous class action.

The direction from the HPRB in this case is essentially that where an inquiry committee does not view a complaint as trivial, frivolous, vexatious or made in bad faith, it can not elect to take no further action under s. 33 (6)(a) of the Act on the basis the registrant has not generally failed to meet professional standards (as submitted by the college), or on the basis the substandard care was an isolated incident not disclosing incompetence (as submitted by the registrant).

My database has 4 leave decisions issued by Justice Wakeling under section 688 between 2014 and 2016, and interestingly he has granted leave in each case interpreting the «reasonable chance of success» criteria as requiring an applicant to show its case is merely arguable — as in not frivolous (See Edmonton v Edmonton (SDAB), 2016 ABCA 129 (CanLII); Kalinski v Cold Lake, 2015 ABCA 402 (CanLII); Osman Auction v Edmonton, 2015 ABCA 135 (CanLII); Edmonton v Edmonton (SDAB), 2014 ABCA 337 (CanLII)-RRB-.

Also, as an officer of the court, a lawyer has a duty to be honest and to not file frivolous cases or raise frivolous defenses.

Anecdotes abound, but I know of no systematic research showing that frivolous lawsuits occur as a significant proportion of cases (or claims) that are brought.

Unfortunately, that case made headlines for the wrong reasons and was wrongly ridiculed as being frivolous.

As a result, oftentimes it is cheaper to settle even a frivolous case than to fight.