Sentences with phrase «claims against majority»

We also represent minority shareholders in claims against majority shareholders and corporate and partnership management.

Not exact matches

If that is true, then there are no logical grounds upon which an individual or a minority can claim rights against the majority.

This poll was cited by the Islamic Republic News Agency, to justify the rather different claim that «A majority of Christians around the world [the Tablet's email poll to its newsletter subscribers could hardly be said to so representative] believe the Pope should not have quoted derogatory statements against Islam».

The Supreme Court of India decided this week against detaining Amit Kumar Soren in custody while he awaits trial to answer claims he has incited hatred against the country's Hindu majority.

To suggest, then, that religious believers (much less majorities who, qua majorities, also have a second claim on shaping public policy) are «wards» depending on the Constitution for their religious freedom and its scope is, to use Posner and Segall's words against them, «to turn the Constitution upside down when it comes to government and religion.»

The Protestant principle, in name derived from the protest of the «protestants» against decisions of the Catholic majority, contains the divine and human protest against any absolute claim made for a relative reality, even if this claim is made by a Protestant church.

State Senate Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco said there should be an investigation into the sexual misconduct claim made against Klein, though he cautioned that the allegation could become a political vehicle in the fractured chamber.

Gun rights groups claim a slim majority for their position in the Senate, given the two or three Democratic Senators representing rural districts who often vote against gun control — although there are also Republican Senators from urban districts who tend to waver.

We've become used to hearing about «modern attitudes», «barbaric behaviour» and endless public opinion polls claiming that the majority of people are against repeal of the supposedly iconic Hunting Act.

Anna Soubry claimed there would be a Commons majority against leaving the single market and customs union.

The GOP, which voted in a bloc against the marriage bill in spite of advocates» claims that there was support from four or more minority conference members for the legislation, is unlikely to engaged it fragile hold on the majority — if it manages to wrest it back from the Democrats — by taking up this controversial bill.

When asked whether Congress should investigate these claims against the president, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R - Ky., dismissed the idea.

The National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ), a research and advocacy group, has led the charge against low admission standards, frequently citing a 2007 McKinsey report that claims the majority of U.S. teachers are recruited from the bottom two - thirds of their class.

Court upholds the majority of vzbv's claims against Facebook: default privacy settings require users» informed consent, «real - name» clause and other -LSB-...]

Our attorneys protect the rights of majority shareholders, officers, directors, managers, and partners against claims by minority shareholders and third parties.

In the vast majority of cases, therefore, if you make a claim against the NHS, whether due to injuries caused by its staff or occurring on NHS property, it will be the NHS LA representing the NHS's interests.

His recent cases include defending the former President and majority shareholder of VAB Bank against charges of contempt of court (sole counsel); acting for Mercuria Energy Trading in its successful defence of a US$ 270 million claim by Citibank in one of the biggest High Court banking trials of 2014, acting for the Claimant in an on - going US$ 830 million fraud claim in the Commercial Court (Russian banking sector), a US$ 800 million joint venture dispute in the BVI and acting as junior counsel to the Claimants in Hulley & ors v.

Won a summary judgment dismissal of a $ 20 million shareholder derivative claim against the chief executive officer and majority shareholder of a privately held corporation.

Our commercial litigation lawyers successfully defended the majority shareholders of a major New Jersey company against claims of minority shareholder «oppression,» as a result of a 13 - week non-jury trial.

Discussions in this group include a supposed York policy that will expel any student bringing legal action against the school, and how to form a claim against the union with the majority of the membership.

In Ferrara v. Lorenzetti, Wolfe6, the majority judgment of the Court of Appeal (Laskin and Sharpe, J.J.A.) held the plaintiff's claim against the defendant solicitor was NOT statute barred.

A majority of seven judges agreed to vacate the PTAB's final written decision against Aqua Products so far as it denied the patent owner's motion to amend claims during the IPR and remand the case to the PTAB with specific instructions:

The High Court heard a record 167 disputes over confidential business information «theft» last year, the majority being civil claims brought by businesses against former employees.

Linklaters and Deloitte have pointed the finger at each other in their defences against the professional negligence claim brought by former Arsenal shareholder Lady Nina Bracewell - Smith over the sale of her stake in the football club to current majority owner Stan Kroenke.

A majority of the Court of Appeal (Justices Bruce McDonald and Barbara Lea Veldhuis) upheld the case management judge's decision striking the appellant's statement of claim in relation to a motor vehicle accident and issuing an order for costs against him.

On November 2, lawyers from Miami Law's Health Rights Clinic, with Florida Legal Services and the Community Justice Project, sued DCF and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, on behalf of the Miami Workers Center, New Florida Majority, and a class of disabled individuals claiming that the system discriminated against persons with disabilities who could not endure these conditions.

Acting for the former majority shareholder of a large Central Euroasian bank in relation to his claims against the government and its agencies running to hundreds of millions of dollars.

In a 4 - 2 vote in Lance v. Wyeth, the majority rejected the claim that inadequate warnings and manufacturing defects are the only claims against pharmaceutical companies that are viable.

On the other hand, there is no doubt that the majority of claims brought against the NHS are genuine, and these claimants should be properly compensated.

While many different parties can potentially be held liable for motor vehicle accidents, the overwhelming majority of auto accident claims are brought against negligent drivers.

The majority's decision gave considerable weight to those claims, but emphasized that there is no hierarchy of rights under the Charter, such that the those claims must be balanced against the co-equal claims to religious freedom (and freedom from discrimination on the basis of religion).

In two linked judgments, nine justices held by majority that the Treasury must lift sanctions against the bank, dismissing claims that its banking services facilitated Iran's nuclear programme, and said appeal courts should go into closed session only where «it has been convincingly demonstrated to be genuinely necessary in the interests of justice».

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He said Republicans can ram their bill through Congress with the majorities they have, but he railed against GOP claims that the bill was discussed in an open, transparent way.

On one side of the dispute is Nita Lake Lodge majority owner and lodge manager Michael Scholz, who in May filed a $ 400,000 civil claim for damages against a minority group of Phase II covenant suite owners.