Sentences with phrase «as named plaintiffs»

Sunstein does however cite a surprising number of cases in which animals have been included as named plaintiffs: see for example, Palila v. Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources, 852 F. 2d 1106, in which a bird species was named as a plaintiff.

British, Australian, and Canadian rightsholders are joining the case as named plaintiffs and will also be represented on the Board of the Book Rights Registry.

BY ANDY HUMM Edie Windsor's name was immortalized as the named plaintiff in the 2013 US Supreme Court decision that won federal recognition for married same - sex couples.

Not exact matches

O'Leary himself is named as a «mise en cause,» someone who is not the main defendant but could be included if the plaintiff believes it may be necessary down the line to invoke a judgment against that person.

The report, produced by legal analytics company Lex Machina, shows that Apple is the most named company in patent infringement cases, and not just as the plaintiff.

In the company blog, Telsa referred to Organ as having «a long track record of extorting money for meritless claims» and said that the company «would rather spend more on a trial and clear its name than settle with the plaintiff.»

The lawsuit names Stratasys CEO Reis and CFO and COO Erez Simha as plaintiffs, along with former MakerBot CEOs Jennifer Lawton and Bre Pettis.

Raymond Abbott's name appeared as lead plaintiff in a court case brought by Camden and several other poor school districts against the State of New Jersey, demanding that the state provide equal funding for all schools.

The complaint lists four individual plaintiffs and names as defendants Trader Joe's, which sells some of the wines that were tested, and about two dozen California wineries, including some well - known names such as Beringer, Fetzer, and... Continue Reading

The defendant, in answer, denies that plaintiff or its predecessors now use, or have ever used, the word «Tabasco» as a trade - mark or identifying name for sauce, and specially avers that the word «Tabasco» could not and can not be appropriated as a trade - mark, because it is geographical and descriptive; that plaintiff continually acquiesced in the descriptive use of the word «Tabasco,» and never made a bona fide attempt to establish the trade - mark it now asserts; and that any rights that plaintiff may have had in the name as a trade - mark were lost by the patenting of the process and the expiration of such patent.

The expiration of the patent did not have the effect of conferring on the public, or the plaintiff as a part of it, any right with reference to the name of the thing which was not a subject of the patent.»

The fact that defendant has not only dressed his product in imitation of that of the plaintiff, but has, in addition, likewise used plaintiff's trade - mark, gives added reason why the Court should require that hereafter defendant not only discontinue the use of the name «Tabasco,» but that he adopt a new and distinctive bottle and carton, such as will clearly and unmistakably differentiate his sauce from the «Tabasco Pepper Sauce» manufactured by plaintiff.

Commencing about 1890, the peppers have been extensivly raised in Louisiana and Mississippi, under the names «Tabasco peppers,» «bird peppers» and «red peppers,» and have been used in the manufacture of pepper sauces substantially the same as that made by plaintiff.

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.

In the alternative, he prayed the court to give an order of interim injunction mandating the defendants, whether by themselves, their servants, agents, privies or howsoever called to publish the name of the plaintiff as an aspirant for the November 19, 2011 governorship primary in Bayelsa State or any governorship primary election scheduled for Bayelsa State, on any date which the defendants may choose, pending the determination of the substantive suit.

«To the best of my knowledge, information and belief, the Plaintiff [Dominic Ayine] brought this action in his name fronting for the immediate past Government to set at naught the popular wishes of the majority of the Ghanaian electorate who see the President's acceptance of the nomination of the 2nd Defendant [Martin Amidu] as Special Prosecutor, as being in the national interest to attack the canker of corruption in the body politic,» Martin Amidu indicated in his affidavit verification sighted by Citi News.

The lawyers talked Mildred and Richard into lending their names as plaintiffs in a suit challenging the Constitutionality of Virginia's longstanding statute prohibiting interracial marriage.

As the judge pointed out, one of the panelists was the mother of the named plaintiff in the original 1993 case.

The lawsuit names 11 students and parents as plaintiffs.

He reminded Judge Treu that each accusation a plaintiff made, of suffering from the ineffectiveness of a teacher, was a misrepresentation of the facts, as he described the teachers they named as exemplary.

Various persons, who are known and unknown to Plaintiff, and not named as defendants in this action, including senior executives of the Publisher Defendants and Apple, have participated as co-conspirators with Defendants in the offense alleged and have performed acts and made statements in furtherance of the conspiracy.

Apple and five major publishing houses are being sued by a Seattle - based law firm, Hagens Berman, on behalf of two plaintiffs named in the suit and on behalf of consumers as a... [Read more...]

Apple and five major publishing houses are being sued by a Seattle - based law firm, Hagens Berman, on behalf of two plaintiffs named in the suit and on behalf of consumers as a whole.

Finally, the suit also claims that «various persons, who are known and unknown to Plaintiff, and not named as defendants in this action, including senior executives of the Publisher Defendants and Apple, have participated as co-conspirators with Defendants in the offense alleged and have performed acts and made statements in furtherance of the conspiracy.»

Earlier this month, one state's appellate court issued a written opinion in a medical malpractice case that required the court to determine whether the single doctor named as a defendant should be able to introduce evidence that there had originally been several other doctors named as defendants, but they had all settled with the plaintiff before the case reached trial.

The Defense Research Institute, the organization that is to the civil - defense bar what the American Association for Justice is to the plaintiffs» bar, recently launched a blog, For the Defense, as an adjunct to the organization's magazine of the same name.

As the plaintiff noted in his briefing, if he had sworn that the plate he asked for meant that his name was John, he was 36 years old, and was born in Tennessee, the plate would likely have been issued.

The plaintiff submits that if he were obliged to provide notice to all the respondents to this application, then the principal defendants, Mr. Mitchell and Deep Capture LLC, would simply transfer their domain name and website files elsewhere, and carry on what would possibly be an even more aggressive campaign of defamation, or create a parallel website under a different name so as to make the tracking down and removal of the defamatory articles almost impossible.

The plaintiff's lawyer and the lawyer with whom the defendant had spoken both practised as part of a group of lawyers under the same firm name, sharing the same business address and office premises and using the same telephone number (save for three digit extensions), fax number and email domain — but who were not partners, nor members of a law firm as traditionally defined.

For example, the named plaintiff, Alejandro Rodriguez, was a long - time lawful permanent resident who came to the United States as an infant.

I did discover one bit of sloppy proofreading — on pages 350 and 445, an English case, British Amusement Catering Trades Association v. Westminster City Council [1987] 1 W.L.R. 977 is referred to as a decision of the House of Lords -LRB-[1989] AC 147), rather than the Court of Appeal, even though the judgment referred to is of Balcombe, LJ — and the plaintiff's name is misspelled as British Assessment Catering Trades Association.

As this case demonstrates, such an endorsement may still provide protection to an additional insured even where the plaintiff has no direct claim against the named insured.

The defendants argued that the two individuals named as defendants, Maureen and Elizabeth Graham, were at all material times directors of Graham Automotive Sales Inc., and as such were not the plaintiff's employer.

The Plaintiff simply asserts that because they were the controlling minds on all relevant matters involving the running of the companies they are correctly named as party defendants.

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.

The plaintiffs» theory of the case focused on media reports about labor abuses by suppliers unrelated to CP Foods, suppliers who were not themselves named as defendants in the complaint.

The plaintiff also named the medical center where the procedure was performed as a defendant.

Ralph L. Dewsnup Named by Best Lawyers as Salt Lake City's «Best Medical Malpractice Plaintiffs Lawyer» for 2013

The named driver exclusion (also sometimes referred to as the «designated persons coverage exclusion») can make it very difficult for certain plaintiffs to obtain insurance coverage for their injuries.

As a result, reducing the costs awarded to plaintiffs in the name of access to justice misses the mark — the risk borne by the plaintiff is thereby increased, fewer actions will be commenced, and access to justice will be denied.

This step asks for basic information such as the name of the plaintiff, the plaintiff's lawyer, the court, and the case number.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit recently ruled that a plaintiff not named as a joint inventor on several patents and pending patent applications has standing to maintain an action to correct inventorship under 35 U.S.C. § 256, despite the fact that he previously assigned all rights...

[19] The plaintiff must name the company as a nominal defendant in the suit, and the company will thereby have the right to participate.

[16] The SJC considered innovator liability to require such a modification given the certainty that a user of a generic drug will rely on the label fashioned by the brand - name manufacturer and as state law shields failure to warn claims from generic manufacturers, leaving plaintiffs without recourse for their injuries.

Many times the parents are also named as plaintiffs as they also suffer both emotionally and financially.

When a client is incapable of instructing counsel ab initio or when the client is a minor, it is most often a family member who retains the lawyer on behalf of the injured plaintiff, and is later named in the action as litigation guardian on behalf of that plaintiff.

The plaintiff sued the defendant lawyer in April, 2004 but did not name the defendant's partner (or the firm) as a defendant.

LeBlanc's extensive accomplishments are equally renowned in the courtroom, paving the way for him to be named as one of the top 75 plaintiff's attorneys in the United States by The American Lawyer (ALM Media, 2010), and was recently included in the Louisiana Super Lawyers list (Thomson Reuters, 2008, 2012 - 2015).

«The Illinois Supreme Court has removed a Cook County judge from an asbestos personal injury case, granting a request from lawyers who had asked the court to step in and block a «rogue» judge from continuing his sanctions proceedings amid a bench investigation of a situation the judge said resembled an improper «grand bargain» between plaintiffs» lawyers and those for a company named as a defendant in the case.»

Failing to name all proper plaintiffs such as corporate entities and Family Law Act claimants; and