Sentences with phrase «by the class members»

Class actions in Australia can be funded in many ways including by a class member or members, lawyers, legal aid, commercial third party funders, regulatory agencies or insurers.

The settlement also allowed individual suits for compensatory damages by class members, as long as they weren't based on theories that included fraud and misrepresentation.

Class actions, by their nature, deal with small claims generally by class members, that totaled up, equal large claims that a defendant or defendants must pay.

In its defence of two actions against Imperial Tobacco, one being litigation by British Columbia for health care costs incurred by BC to treat illnesses caused by tobacco usage, and the second being a claim by class members who bought «light» or «mild» cigarettes, Imperial Tobacco sought to add Canada as a third party, based on statements Canada made to tobacco companies and the public about the purportedly lesser risk of «light» reduced - tar cigarettes as compared with normal cigarettes.

The scope of its review will be broad, ranging from improving «take - up rates» by class members, canvassing different funding options for class actions, and providing guidance for when national class actions are appropriate.

McEwen wrote: «I find that Cassels was retained by the Class Members including Trillium to protect their interests in any complex restructuring of the dealer network and to represent them in any GMCL CCAA proceedings.

In addition, the court also denied plaintiffs» motion to invalidate mandatory arbitration and class action waiver clauses contained in independent contractor agreements executed by class members.

Not exact matches

Scorpio and co-founder Sam Zaid were members of Singularity's first class, in 2009; they were challenged by Google co-founder Larry Page to come up with a plan that would, in 10 years, impact a billion people.

On the other hand, members of the middle class take jobs they don't enjoy «because they need the money, and they've been trained in school and conditioned by society to live in a linear thinking world that equates earning money with physical or mental effort.»

Class C directors are elected by the Board of Governors to represent the public, in contrast to Class A and B directors, who are elected by member banks.

According to the Wainstein report, «Over the course of ten years, there were 729 enrollments in the paper classes by members of fraternities (and some sorority sisters).»

In fact, they recalled that a number of their non-athlete fraternity members took so many AFAM classes that they inadvertently ended up with AFAM minors by the time they graduated.»

This includes «chronic, structural racial injustice — such as the persistent paucity of black faculty members and administrators at Yale, the common experience of being the only black student in some classes, and being disproportionately likely to be stopped and asked for ID — or worse — by campus police officers.»

They are seeking damages from former CEO Gene Isenberg and current CEO Anthony Petrello as well as members of the board of directors in a federal class action lawsuit filed by the Erie County Employees Retirement System.

Countless stories shared on World AIDS Day by survivors and patient family members describe Americans who, ignored by the political class and facing a dearth of treatment options, simply accepted HIV and AIDS as a death sentence just three decades ago.

By then, the power and influence of its members were nothing less than extraordinary: nearly half of the class had already climbed to the titles of chairman, CEO, or chief operating officer.

To drive down labor costs, a company replaces a regulated, protected class of worker (members of a union) with a non-protected worker (by relocating to non-union states or countries with a lower labor cost).

Fourteen women sent a letter to Uber's 11 - member board on Thursday insisting that the startup let their class action lawsuit alleging assault or harassment by Uber drivers go forward in open court.

The United Nations Population Division and Goldman Sachs recently reported that by 2030 China would have about 1.4 billion members of what the World Bank defines as the middle class, compared to 365 million in the U.S. and 414 million in western Europe.

If you are a banker, or by some other qualification a member of what Taibbi dubs here «the grifter class» for whom «government is a slavish lapdog that the financial companies... use as a tool for making money» — well, you and the author are not going to get along.

The eight members of the Beaudoin - Bombardier family — heirs of Joseph - Armand Bombardier, who invented the snowmobile — control the company through a dual - class share structure that gives class A shares, 54 % of which are owned by the family members, 10 votes apiece.

Paul Murphy, an Irish member of the European parliament, decried the secrecy of the negotiations, saying they had «been driven by Canadian and European multinationals and agrobusiness that want market access and access to vital public services so they can profit at the expense of working - class people.»

Neither you nor Daily Harvest shall be permitted or entitled to join or consolidate claims by or against others, or arbitrate or otherwise participate in any claims as a class member, class representative, or in any other representative capacity.

The Board or the HRC or the GNC may modify, suspend, or terminate the LTICP but may not, without the prior approval of our stockholders, make any change to the LTICP that increases the total amount of common stock which may be awarded (except to reflect changes in capitalization), increases the individual maximum award limits (except to reflect changes in capitalization), changes the class of team members or directors eligible to participate, extends the duration of the LTICP, reduces the exercise price of or reprices outstanding stock options or stock appreciation rights, waives the LTICP's minimum time period requirements for vesting and lapse of restrictions for restricted stock or RSRs, or otherwise amends the LTICP in any manner requiring stockholder approval by law or under the NYSE listing requirements.

Flying Blue has reportedly gone so far as to unilaterally downgrade First Class awards wheedled out of booking agents by non-elite members.

The nine directors of each Reserve Bank are divided evenly by classification: Class A directors represent the member banks in the District; Class B directors and Class C directors represent the interests of the public.

Team members took turns to stop by and support each other — bringing snacks and coming to the middle - of - the - night classes to cheer on the teammates that drew the «short straw.»

The SSE Holdings LLC Agreement recapitalizes the units currently held by the existing members of SSE Holdings into a new single class of common membership units, which we refer to as the «LLC Interests.»

The Company's board of directors also approved an additional distribution to its members, to the extent the gross proceeds of the Company's planned initial public offering exceed the anticipated gross proceeds (including as a result of the exercise by the underwriters of their option to purchase additional shares of Class A common stock), in an amount equal to the product of (A) the increased gross proceeds and (B) 0.273, to be paid from the proceeds of the Company's planned initial public offering.

TechCrunch reported that Flatiron School, which was acquired by WeWork late last year (2017), «is currently working to build a portfolio of courses for new members, including accounting, finance and marketing classes.»

Since then, however, Ratner has lost standing with the parent company, long controlled by family members, which in late 2016 announced it was dismantling its two - class share structure and that he would leave the board.

Sellers celebrate the result as «wealth creation,» and the mainstream media depict the middle class as growing richer by higher prices for the homes its members have bought.

Based upon this analysis, we provide our clients with recommendations concerning whether they should: (1) move to be appointed lead plaintiff; (2) file an individual non-class action in federal or state court; or (3) take no active role, that is, remain a class member in an action initiated by others.

On April 23, 2014, JPMC agreed to pay $ 5.5 million to settle claims made by a class of nearly 480,000 Circuit City rewards credit card holders who alleged JPMC duped them into joining an «interest free» program, then breached their contract by charging class members unexpected fees and interest charges.

Each Class Member's points are then multiplied by the net share per point to get the Class Member's gross share.

We can now deal with the question, earlier deferred, of how it is possible to insist upon internal relations between occasions while at the same time recognizing that from a logical point of view the members of a class of particulars defined by a function would have to be externally related.

As increasingly more members have moved out of the lower - income bracket and have been joined by middle - class charismatic defectors from mainline churches, their worship has become more contained.

Thus the statement «God exists» would be unavoidably believed even by God, or would necessarily apply though any of his experiences; and I should think the same would be true of «The world exists,» provided it is understood as asserting the existence not of an individual but of a class, some of whose members must exist, but none of whose members can exist except contingently.

Socialism and communism are based on the principle that the means of producing goods and providing services — such as all factories and companies — should be owned publicly and controlled and planned by a centralized organization rather than being controlled by members of a small class of wealthy people.

The pastoral psychology movement was developed by sincere and far - sighted churchmen who were, for the most part, members of the mainline, middle - class denominations in the United States.

After the war, radical Christians criticized the Church's cooperation by the ruling classes even as open - minded party members came to realize how repressive some Marxist regimes could be.

One becomes a member of this class by completing a long course of study in grammar, philology, history and logic, as well as in interpretation of the Qur» an and the hadith.

However, when discussing the uniqueness of Jesus Christ, Wheeler maintains that whether «Jesus Christ's divine - human unity is the sole member of its class, as evangelical Christians would typically claim,» or is «a paradigmatic member of a class with multiple members» as Whiteheadians contend, this crucial unity can be construed more fundamentally by those in both groups as an example of a systemic change of the God - world relationship happening once in the history of humanity globally (105).

Despite the equality acquired by women and Afro - Americans during the 1960s, members of middle - class churches are still relatively unaware of the extent to which most congregations are still sexist and racist.

To constitute a society, the class - name has got to apply to each member, by reason of genetic derivation from other members of that same society» (PR 89 / 137).

In a recent speech in Los Angeles, broadcast as a public service by Pacifica's KPFK, Farrakhan lieutenant Steve Cokely even identified the local measles epidemic as part of this genocidal plot, whose ultimate architects were those familiar demons of the paranoid right and left, the members of the Trilateral Commission and other ruling - class cabals.

Members of a class can now recognize each other — sniff each other out — by means of the institutionalized cultural signals.

Bishop Azariah of Dornakal, in theologically justifying the rejection of the reserved minority communal electorate offered by Britain to the Christian community in India, spoke of how the acceptance of it would be «a direct blow to the nature of the church of Christ» at two points — one, it would force the church to function «like a religious sect, a community which seeks self - protection for the sake of its own loaves and fishes» which would prevent the fruitful exercise of the calling of the church to permeate the entire society across boundaries of caste, class, language and race, a calling which can be fulfilled only through its members living alongside fellow - Indians sharing in public life with a concern for Christian principles in it; and two, it would put the church's evangelistic programme in a bad light as «a direct move to transfer so many thousands of voters from the Hindu group to the Indian Christian group» (recorded by John Webster, Dalit Christians - A History).

Early in my own discipleship, I was privileged to attend a class that taught one how to explore what particular gifts one had been given and how to work within the Body by focusing on those and also understanding how members with other giftings functioned best.

Thus was Yahweh conceived in Israel by many a king and priest, by many a member of the land - owning, slave - owning, creditor class, and doubtless also by wide areas of popular opinion.