Sentences with phrase «case against author»

For two years, a group of authors has been trying to make a legal case against author services provider Author Solutions, claiming that they engaged in a fraudulent scheme to sell worthless marketing services.

A brief notice filed September 14 showed the case against Author Solutions in Indiana was voluntarily dismissed, with prejudice, with the parties agreeing to end litigation and to pay their own costs and attorney fees.

Not exact matches

Bloom is the author of Against Empathy: the Case for Rational Compassion, which argues that we too often let our emotions get in the way of making sound decisions.

Alfie Kohn is the author of four books, including No Contest: The Case Against Competition and the newly published Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes, from which this article is adapted.

In the article, the MSM propagandist states such things as: 2017 has seen, according to his one time Goldman Sachs source, a «dramatic crash in [physical gold coin] demand,» that interest in gold coins is linked to «political conservatism, or anarcho - libertarianism» and «end of the world right wing sentiments,» that gold has been implicated in a «conspiracy to commit money laundering,» that gold is «financed by people in the narcotics trade,» that it comes from «illegal mines and drug dealers in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador,» that «the federal authorities assume the NTR Metals [case] represented only a fraction of illegally sourced and financed gold,» that therefore the US attorney is broadly investigating the gold industry, that gold is «produced by exploited workers,» that «crude [gold] extraction techniques create serious and lasting environmental damage,» that gold plays an important part in «tax evasion,» that it is related to American gun sales, which the author abhors; that «drug dealers [use] gold imports as a way of laundering their proceeds,» and that «they came to realize that illegal gold [is] an intrinsically better business» than drug dealing; to name but a few of the aspersions cast against gold in the short article.

The author makes the case for and against «free trade.»

He is the author of The Restitution of Man: C. S. Lewis and the Case Against Scientism.

Oddly absent from the authors» analysis is the central question of intentionality: in one case, participation in the crimes of a horrible regime; in the other, deterrence against aggression by a horrible regime.

Moreover, neither Rauch nor the authors he cites even addresses the issue of polyamory, which is, if anything, a harder case for them than polygamy, because many of the pragmatic and prudential considerations they cite against polygamy would not apply to polyamorous arrangements.

The infamous atheist and scientific expert was prompted to campaign on the issue after the case against Simon Singh, an author being sued by the British Chiropractic Association for an article questioning the use of chiropractic techniques in childhood illness.

For instance, Justice Jones Dotse is reported to be the author of this phrase «create, loot and share» in reference to a certain case before the court during the ndc era which subsequently became a vile political slogan for the NPP prior to the 2012 elections against the then ruling NDC government.

In «The Case against Copernicus,» authors Dennis Danielson and Christopher Graney detail the evidence - based reasons why 17th - century astronomers doubted the Copernican model of the universe, which held that Earth revolves around the sun (and not the other way around).

The Case Against Cardio piqued some great conversation and interesting criticisms (one soul out there in the webosphere took issue with the fact that I positioned Cardio exclusively from my personal perspective as a runner rather than authoring a more scholarly article.

Author of The Case Against Sugar, Why We Get Fat and Good Calories, Bad Calories Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health [Gary Taubes] on.

Author of The Case Against Sugar, Why We Get Fat and Good Calories, Bad Calories

Author of The Case Against Sugar, Why We Get Fat and Good Calories, Bad Calories The So Bad, It's Good trope as used in popular culture.

Instead, as the authors of The Case Against Homework write, «Homework overload is turning many of us into the types of parents we never wanted to be: nags, bribers, and taskmasters.»

The Case Against High School Sports In this article published by The Atlantic author Amanda Ripley, describes the role of high school sports in the American education system, how current resource allocations favor sports over academics and consequences as American students fall behind in international rankings and draws on Marguerite...

Using one case study from sports (the Vancouver Giants hockey team) and one from education (Hackney Schools Borough in London, England), the authors illustrate how the six components of uplifting leadership combine the hard and soft skills that are often set against each other in traditional leadership practice: counterintuitive thinking combined with disciplined application; dreaming with determination; collaboration with competition; metrics with meaning; pushing and pulling people into change; and long - term sustainability with short - term success.

In cases where authors become speakers, there's also a very real danger of backlash from attendees against the perception that courses, seminars, workshops, or other forms of speaking engagements are simply «commercials» for the authors» books.

Another case brought about by the Authors Guild against several of the scanning groups working on Google's project has already been determined by a different judge to be well within the bounds of fair use.

I don't know if this is what was going on in this case, but a traditional scam perpetrated against writers is to put out a call for submissions, and then contact the author saying the submission isn't good enough to be published, but «for X dollars, we can edit the work for you, and then publish it.»

They have brought court cases against dozens of companies that target authors to professional reviews written for their e-books.

Case in point: explicit romance author Taylor Morgan's vitriol - laced rant against musician and philanthropist George Michael.

In the case of authors, such ignorance handicaps their book's potential for success by limiting their understanding of what publishing options exist, what the business implications are of each, and how to properly evaluate them against each other.

I know an author named Rachel Ann Nunes fell victim to a clever one, and had a very difficult time prosecuting the case against her plagiarist.

Jane at Dear Author published a blog post, called «The Curious Case of Ellora's Cave,» which detailed instances of nonpayment to authors, tax liens against the publisher, and so forth.

If you haven't been following this case, it is against a notorious author / box set promoter / marketer /» mastermind» teacher who goes by the name of Rebecca Hamilton — and also runs other author businesses like OTOH Books (formerly GenreCrave).

Okay, as a business you have to make a profit and I have nothing against that but do you hold out the general public, and in this case, aspiring and published as well as unpublished authors, and small publishers, to not be able to see what's going on?

Most authors don't do this, though such a filing can help bolster your case if you ever find a need to press legal action or seek damages against an infringer.

And one of the few that does not try to pit traditional against self - pub, when in many cases the hybrid authors see much of the success.

2) I suspect (and this is a bit of a pet theory of mine) that Apple stays in the ebook space primarily to disrupt the educational textbook market (I think that iBooks Author + iTunesU + «cheap» iPad 2s = a strategy for fostering disruption in education at the grass - roots level); their presence in trade publishing is relatively incidental (this may have not been so at the start — I also suspect that launching iBooks along with iPad was initially a hedge against uncertainty about user adoption and viable use cases for the iPad.

On the basis of «CREATOR principles» previously set by the SoA, demands include that authors should receive «at least» 50 % of the revenue from e-book sales, «not a mere 25 %» they do currently, that authors don't have their «hands tied with contracts that can not be terminated when a book is no longer being exploited», for publishers to drop non-compete clauses and for indemnity clauses, often included to help protect publishers financially against cases brought on the basis of plagarism and libel, «to spread the risk fairly between the publisher and the author».

The authors of the study point to other regulatory and legislative acts, including the «order precedence rule,» commonly known as the «Manning Rule» after a legal case against Charles Schwab, the Gramm - Leach - Bliley Act, which saw the end of the Glass - Steagall Act of 1933 and formally allowed the combination of commercial banks, securities firms and insurance companies, Regulation Fair Disclosure, which devalued stock research, and the Global Settlement ruling, which has made research coverage tougher for issuers to secure.

Although the CCCI can not assume responsibility for censorship of content on the internet, any member has the right to lodge a complaint against another member, per the rules of our constitution and by - laws, in which case the CCCI may intervene, and may find it necessary to suspend or expel members who author content with malicious intent, misrepresentation or defamation on ANY publicly available media (including but not limited to internet communications of any kind).

S. FRED SINGER: A godfather of global warming denial, author of The Scientific Case Against the Global Climate Treaty and Hot Talk, Cold Science: Global Warming's Unfinished Debate.

I know I'm going over old ground here, but it's interesting how such a case of misrepresentation of the science doesn't seem to merit much attention by the self - appointed «skeptics» and hasn't resulted in any sanctions against the authors.

The key outcome of this case is that authors owe a debt of gratitude to Robinson, as the decision has strengthened the protection against copyright infringement.

Ten years ago, the Authors Guild and other plaintiffs filed a lawsuit against Google in alleged copyright infringement in a case involving Google's book scanning project, a searchable database that allows the user to search the content of all books that have been scanned into the database.

He is the author of Democracy and Political Ignorance: Why Smaller Government is Smarter (Stanford University Press, revised and expanded second edition, 2016), and The Grasping Hand: Kelo v. City of New London and the Limits of Eminent Domain (University of Chicago Press, 2015, rev. paperback ed., 2016), coauthor of A Conspiracy Against Obamacare: The Volokh Conspiracy and the Health Care Case (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), and co-editor of Eminent Domain: A Comparative Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2017).

The decision in Totalise plc v The Motley Fool Ltd [2001] EMLR 750 emphasised that the courts are not obliged to provide such relief and can consider wider matters such as the gravity of the defamatory allegations, whether the claimant has a strong prima facie case against the defendant, the size and extent of the potential readership and whether the claimant had any other available method of identifying the authors.

Judge Alito, however, may be a different case, thanks in particular to the legal argument against Roe v. Wade he helped author after he wrote this initial memo.

Taking a critical position against the «scold war» directed by several sectors of society at the present generation of American parents, the authors make a case for educators to help parents learn how to, and be allowed to, meaningfully participate in the work of schools.

Various implementations ofthe basic premises are illustrated by an abundance of moving and intriguing case studies that engage the children in the fight against the problem and gain some control of their lives through strategies involving letters, art work, apposite stories, and such «unlicensed co-therapists» as stuffed animals... the authors... never dismiss the seriousness of their clients» problems.

However, the study author has warned against making assumptions about the cost of coaching relative to other forms of care, saying that the study found that in most cases it did not reduce health care costs and, in some cases, could increase them.

-- Diane Medved, Ph.D., author of The Case Against Divorce and coauthor of The American Family: Discovering Values That Make Us Strong