Sentences with phrase «because of a lawsuit»

The budget for the Department of Energy would include $ 120 million to restart licensing for the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump in Nevada, a project that has been stalled for years because of lawsuits and local opposition.

Meanwhile, another Uber board member is trying to squeeze Benchmark out of the company because of its lawsuit.

For anything to be held hostage because of this lawsuit or anything else would be detrimental.»

Auerbach, declared Ronk, «is just playing politics,» first in attempting to influence the legislature last year (which ultimately restored half of Hein's reduction) and lately because of the lawsuit.

Production began June 1, 1964 and was suspended from July 2 to July 21 and from July 29 to September 9 because of a lawsuit and restraining order against Bette Davis and the illness of Joan Crawford, who originally portrayed Miriam Deering before being replaced by Olivia de Havilland.

Four dioceses, of the 195 administrative units in the American Catholic church — Davenport, Iowa; Portland, Oregon; Spokane, Washington; and Tucson, Arizona — have already declared bankruptcy because of lawsuits over sex abuse.

Notable recently were the Gates Foundation's call for a two - year moratorium on tying results from assessments aligned to the Common Core to consequences for teachers or students; Florida's legislation to eliminate consequences for schools that receive low grades on the state's pioneering A-F school grading system; the teetering of the multi-state Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) assessment consortium (down from 24 to 15 members, and with its contract with Pearson to deliver the assessments in limbo because of a lawsuit that alleges bid - rigging); and the groundswell of opposition from parents, teachers, and political groups to the content of the Common Core.

I saw one of those ads regarding students that went to the Art institutes being eligible for help because of some lawsuit filed in 2012 for 103 million in predatory loans..

(George says this is in part because of the lawsuits and Canadian investigation, in which he says computers were seized.)

What we found back then was fascinating: corporations engaged in illegal behavior that were able to block government oversight sometimes changed because of lawsuits brought by everyday Americans.

If you own a home, have retirement savings and investments, you too can't afford to lose everything you've worked so hard for because of a lawsuit.

Many insurance companies say you need it because of the lawsuit - happy world we live in, where anyone can sue you for anything and ruin you financially.

I certainly will NOT port this App to Android, or make any OTHER new Apps for Android, because of this lawsuit and others like it.

Apple will also install the new modems on its 2017 iPhones, but because of the lawsuit, the new handsets will come with modems developed by both Qualcomm and Intel.

I am sure no body forseeing the mess in coming years because of lawsuits everywhere because of unprofessional attitude of so called sellers and private organizations.

Not exact matches

Thus, while Spotify has profited handsomely from the music that its sells to its subscribers, the owners of that music (in particular, songwriters and their music publishers) have not been able to share in that success because Spotify is using their music for free,» the lawsuit said.

Women, black and Latino employees also lose out on pay raises, bonuses, stock options, benefits and other wages because of the company's discriminatory practices, the lawsuit alleges.

Microsoft lawyer Jeff Fisher said defendants could not use this maneuver because they can not voluntarily dismiss a lawsuit if they want to get an automatic appeal of a decision granting class certification.

Wealth management became sexy because of its dependability while trading and banking became curse words as the subpoenas and lawsuits piled up.

Going PC by PC to retrieve e-mail in the event of a lawsuit is time consuming and expensive — and if you can't produce relevant e-mail because it was accidentally deleted, the other side could use it to raise the question of whether you maliciously deleted things you didn't want them to find, Larrivee says.

She also listed several of Trump's most controversial statements, beginning with his recent claim that the judge presiding over a lawsuit against Trump University can't properly do his job because he is «Mexican.»

The critics of Google's (goog) effort to promote workforce diversity now include one of its own former recruiters, who claims in a lawsuit he was fired because he didn't toe the line on rejecting white and Asian male job candidates.

Personal auto insurance in Ontario is higher risk because of regulatory intervention to cut rates and lawsuit trends.

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.

Michael Burger, director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University, told the Post that New York's lawsuit was significant because it brought the legal challenge beyond California.

This vague language makes it difficult for women to prove they were paid less than a male counterpart because of their gender and deters many from even filing a lawsuit.»

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.

The other lawsuit, which Bloomberg reports was brought by some of the same attorneys as the General Mills suits, argued that because testing of Quaker Oats Quick 1 - Minute reportedly found traces of glyphosate, the company could not use the «100 % natural» label.

In fact, in December 2017 a Virginia district court judge ruled against a female plaintiff in a lawsuit alleging sex discrimination, sexual harassment, and retaliation against defense contractor BAE Systems, in part, because she «did not take advantage of BAE's harassment reporting procedures of which she was well aware.»

Pao, for example, a former venture capitalist at well - known Silicon Valley firm Kleiner Perkins, lost a lawsuit last year that she filed against her former employer over allegations that it had discriminated against her because of her gender.

The Department of Labor lawsuit, originally filed in 2012, alleged that the company flouted the federal Fair Labor Standards Act because its workers weren't making minimum wage ($ 7.25 an hour) when their bosses required them to take unpaid breaks, according to the Associated Press.

You might think Prince was slow to change with the times because of his threatened lawsuits against YouTube and his own fansites for violating his copyrights.

Former sheriff's deputies in Virginia brought a lawsuit against their old boss, claiming he had fired them because they had liked the Facebook campaign page of his opponent in the upcoming election.

• Because I just can't help myself: Following Tuesday's dust - up between Donald Trump and Univision anchor Jorge Ramos, I took a look at the progress of Trump's lawsuit vs. Univision (a PE - backed company that is in registration for an IPO).

In the lawsuit, the drivers alleged that because Lyft has misclassified them as contract workers instead of employees, it owes them reimbursement for expenses like gas and car maintenance.

Yet because of how Google makes money on its Android software, Apple could struggle in a lawsuit to prove that Google financially benefits from patent infringement.

As the New York Times reported in late August, it may be easier for Apple to go after phone makers in lawsuits, because damages can be determined by the number of phones a company sold that were made using infringed patents.

«I thought other people would benefit from the service,» Yurevich told CNBC, adding that he was surprised by the lawsuit because of Southwest's «Transfarency» advertising slogan and general consumer - friendly image.

«A lot of people questioned our investment strategy,» Serruya says, especially because Charney was facing a handful of sexual harassment lawsuits.

The company «seems to believe» that the lawsuit should be pursued by individuals, not as a group, because «damages could amount to billions of dollars,» U.S. District Judge James Donato wrote in the ruling.

Ripple's lawsuit alleges that the company terminated its agreement because R3 had failed to deliver on another parallel technology partnership agreement to give Ripple access to its network of banks and help promote its technology.

We'll get to that in a minute, though, because also on stage was David Carroll, the associate professor at Parsons School of Design in New York who filed a lawsuit against Cambridge to find out what data the company has about him.

While Mr. Berman accused the benefit managers of being complicit, he said the lawsuit focused on the drug makers because «they are playing the game, and they are the ones who publish the list price.»

In its lawsuit against ListHub, Zillow Group is claiming that its acquisition of Trulia was not technically a «change of control» because the acquisition was structured so that Trulia remained intact as a corporate entity, Walmsley said.

The new lawsuit, with six other states joining Texas, did not directly seek to challenge what those other judges had done (Judge Hanen would have no authority to overturn those orders because they deal with the shutdown of DACA not its original form).

Is it because of a potential lawsuit?

TALLAHASSEE — Three months after 13 elderly residents in a South Florida nursing home died because of sweltering conditions following Hurricane Irma, lawsuits and legislative inaction are holding up efforts aimed at preventing such deaths in the future.

Shortly thereafter, Daniels added a complaint in her lawsuit against Cohen, alleging defamation when on February 13 he stated in reference to claims of an affair that, «Just because something isn't true doesn't mean it can't cause you harm or damage,» implying that Daniels is lying about the affair.

«Because there was never a valid agreement and thus, no agreement to arbitrate,» the lawsuit concluded, «any subsequent order obtained by Mr. Cohen and / or Mr. Trump in arbitration is of no consequence or effect.»

It's a key factor in many of the dozen lawsuits filed by San Francisco - based lawyer Christopher Dolan — he argues Uber should be held accountable for the misdeeds of its drivers, while Uber counters it's not to blame because the drivers are independent contractors.