Sentences with phrase «bring lawsuits in federal courts»

The majority ruled that blacks could not be citizens of the United States, and therefore lacked the concomitant right to bring lawsuits in federal courts.

One issue that has generated attention is what consumers must show to have standing to bring a lawsuit in federal court.

Livingston Christian School first brought a lawsuit in a federal court in Michigan in an effort to protect its right to exist as a ministry in Genoa Township.

In order to bring a lawsuit in federal court, there has to be a violation of a federal statute related to employment.

She brought her lawsuit in federal court.

Using a copyrighted work without permission is an infringement of these rights, and the owner could bring a lawsuit in federal court.

Not exact matches

On Tuesday evening, the company filed documents in San Francisco federal court to settle a class action lawsuit brought Lyft in 2013 by former drivers Patrick Cotter, Alejandra Maciel, and Jeffrey Knudtson.

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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters)- U.S. immigration authorities have detained a 23 - year - old Mexican man who was brought to the United States illegally as a child and given a work permit during the Obama administration, according to a lawsuit challenging the detention in Seattle federal court.

The Nation initially brought a lawsuit against the state in 1999 but said it was ultimately rejected by a federal court because a state under the Constitution couldn't legally be sued.

The panel will consider a request by Judge Dora Irazarry, a federal district court judge in Brooklyn, who is hearing a lawsuit against the lines brought by civil rights groups.

A recent ruling by a federal appeals court may shield school districts in a growing number of states against some types of lawsuits brought against them in federal courts.

Florida teachers brought a similar lawsuit last year; it is now in federal appeals court, while other complaints are pending in Texas and New York.

Bain et al v. CTA et al, a lawsuit brought by StudentsFirst, a Sacramento - based activist outfit founded by Michelle Rhee, was filed on behalf of four public school teachers in federal court in California.

He focuses his practice on defending product liability, construction, transportation, catastrophic injury and wrongful death lawsuits brought in state and federal courts around the country.

In Altria Group v. Good, the court said that federal law does not preempt smokers from bringing lawsuits under Maine law alleging deceptive marketing of light cigarettes as healthier.

But, while the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 allows many class action lawsuits which would otherwise be brought on exclusively state law claims in state court to be brought in federal court, or removed from state court to federal court, it does not authorize class action lawsuits that could not be brought in a state court which a U.S. District Court is located due to lack of either general jurisdiction or specific jurisdiction from being brought in that federal court eicourt to be brought in federal court, or removed from state court to federal court, it does not authorize class action lawsuits that could not be brought in a state court which a U.S. District Court is located due to lack of either general jurisdiction or specific jurisdiction from being brought in that federal court eicourt, or removed from state court to federal court, it does not authorize class action lawsuits that could not be brought in a state court which a U.S. District Court is located due to lack of either general jurisdiction or specific jurisdiction from being brought in that federal court eicourt to federal court, it does not authorize class action lawsuits that could not be brought in a state court which a U.S. District Court is located due to lack of either general jurisdiction or specific jurisdiction from being brought in that federal court eicourt, it does not authorize class action lawsuits that could not be brought in a state court which a U.S. District Court is located due to lack of either general jurisdiction or specific jurisdiction from being brought in that federal court eicourt which a U.S. District Court is located due to lack of either general jurisdiction or specific jurisdiction from being brought in that federal court eiCourt is located due to lack of either general jurisdiction or specific jurisdiction from being brought in that federal court eicourt either.

If, instead of bringing counterclaims in the original lawsuit, the defendant brings a separate lawsuit against the plaintiff, the plaintiff could seek to either (1) consolidate the cases if they are filed in the same court system (i.e. a federal case and a federal case, or a New York State case and a New York State case), or (2) move to dismiss the new lawsuit because the claims were required to be brought in the original lawsuit as mandatory counterclaims, or (3) move to stay proceedings in the second lawsuit pending resolution of the first lawsuit, or (4) move to dismiss the claims in the second lawsuit on the merits if it is apparent from the face of the countersuit that it does not state a claim upon which relief can be granted or was filed in the wrong court.

His lawsuit is being brought in federal court.

Other developments also include a class action lawsuit filed last week in the Saskatchewan Court of Queen's Bench and which has been brought against the federal government and the Canadian Wheat Board on behalf of western Canadian farmers seeking to recover the alleged value of the assets of the Canadian Wheat Board.

If you have exhausted all of your administrative appeals, you have the right to bring a lawsuit and sue the insurance company in Federal Court.

She has achieved important court victories on GLBT issues, including bringing marriage equality to Pennsylvania through her work for plaintiffs in Whitewood v. Wolf, the federal lawsuit that successfully challenged the Pennsylvania Marriage Laws as amended in 1996 to ban same - sex marriage.

Meanwhile, in the Georgia federal court case brought as a class action against Oasis Legal Finance, Judge Dudley Bowen dismissed one element of the lawsuit, and two other counts remain to be decided - including whether Oasis violated the state's Payday Lending Act.

In this appeal, the high court made it easier to bring private civil lawsuits under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, a federal law passed to combat organized crime.

A federal appellate court has ruled that a consumer can't bring a lawsuit based on the federal Truth in Lending Act against a mortgage broker.

A federal appellate court has considered whether a software company which provides software support to local municipalities could bring a copyright infringement lawsuit against a company owned by a multiple listing service when the company attempted to obtain property tax assessment information contained in a software program developed by the software company.

A Rhode Island federal court has considered a real estate brokerage's liability for violations of federal lead - based requirements in a lawsuit brought by home purchaser and subsequent lessees of home.

As part of the court's decision, it considered whether the federal Volunteer Protection Act would absolutely prohibit the parents from bringing a lawsuit against the School's Board of Trustees, based on the allegations made in the complaint.

A Florida federal court considers allegations against a multiple listing service in a lawsuit brought by a photographer.

A federal appellate court has considered whether a lower court properly weighed the factors used by courts to determine whether an independent contractor insurance broker was actually an employee of insurance company in lawsuit brought pursuant to the Age Discrimination in Employment Act («Act»).

A federal court in Pennsylvania considered whether invited guests to rental property have the ability to bring a lawsuit for violations of the Fair Housing Act («FHA»), this is the first time a court has issued an opinion on this topic.