Sentences with phrase «company filed a lawsuit against»

In March, a subsidiary of Related Companies filed a lawsuit against Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York and its president, Gary LaBarbera, alleging that the union's labor policies drove up costs at Hudson Yards by more than $ 100 million.

This week, four of the five largest U.S. tobacco companies filed a lawsuit against the federal government.

In August 2011, however, four of the five largest U.S. tobacco companies filed a lawsuit against the federal government claiming that requiring the gnarly warnings to accompany their product will violate their free speech rights, cost millions of dollars to print, and require them to feature anti-smoking advocacy more prominently than their own brands.

The trucking company filed a lawsuit against the SUV driver for property damage in one county.

I don't think you need one immediately but you do need to be prepared to find one in the event the insurance company files a lawsuit against you.

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The Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit against Qualcomm on Tuesday, accusing the company of antitrust violations in its patent licensing business.

The settlement with the Federal Trade Commission is the latest setback for Uber, which is facing a divided board of directors and angry shareholders after an investor lawsuit was filed against the company's ousted chief executive.

Under Kalanick, Uber had run roughshod over regulators, faced accusations of rampant sexual harassment, and allegedly obtained medical records of a woman in who said an Uber driver in India had raped her (Uber recently settled a U.S. lawsuit that the woman had filed against the company).

Waymo, the Google self - driving project that recently spun out to become a business under Alphabet, has filed a lawsuit against self - driving truck startup Otto and its parent company Uber for patent infringement and stealing trade secrets.

NEW YORK --(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Pomerantz LLP announces that a class action lawsuit has been filed against Akorn, Inc. («Akorn» or the «Company»)(NASDAQ: AKRX) and certain of its officers.

On October 10, one of the company's major investors filed a lawsuit against the company (which Theranos vigorously contested).

In June, a group of franchisees filed a lawsuit against parent company Restaurant Brands International, alleging cost cutting at the expense of franchisees.

The lawsuit filed against Facebook on behalf of the communications workers argues that the company essentially plays the role of an employment agency — collecting and providing data that helps employers locate candidates, effectively coordinating with the employer to develop the advertising strategies, informing employers about the performance of the ads, and so forth.

In April, users filed a lawsuit seeking class action status against Tidal that claimed the company misled its users about a Kanye West album being exclusively released on the music service.

In the years following the placement of the additional coverages, the client had several employment - related lawsuits filed against the company, all of which proved baseless.

Matt Zuchetto, a lawyer in Washington state who has filed class - action lawsuits against debt - settlement companies, says many established players simply modified their fee structures.

The evidence is part of a lawsuit filed against Manning, the New York Giants, Giants equipment manager Joe Skiba, Giants owner John Mara, and Steiner Sports, a large memorabilia company.

Co-founder and CTO Brogan BamBrogan resigned and filed a lawsuit against the company in July.

A number of lawsuits have been filed against the company for allegedly mishandling people's data.

Oregon has filed a lawsuit against software giant Oracle that accuses that company of fraud for its role in building the state's failed health insurance exchange.

In March, Goldilocks filed a lawsuit with the Singapore High Court against the commodities trader and some of its former and current senior executives, alleging the company inflated its assets, Reuters reported.

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.

In May, a similar lawsuit was filed against The Quaker Oats Company.

Duggan, who co-founded the company in 2013, was named in a lawsuit filed against BetterWorks in the San Francisco Superior Court on July 13, which alleged a hostile work environment in which sexist behavior was tolerated by management.

As for Schneiderman, at the end of the five - day period he will likely file a lawsuit against the two companies that would demand they be barred from doing business in New York, and would require them to pay state fines and potentially pay back restitutions to New York customers as well.

The settlement between the two biotech companies resolves a lawsuit that Alnylam filed against Dicerna in 2015.

The dispute involves a lawsuit filed against Royal Dutch Petroleum over claims that the oil company was complicit in abuses committed by the Nigerian government against its citizens in the oil - rich Niger Delta.

Mylan's CEO, Heather Bresch, later had to testify before Congress, class - action lawsuits have been filed against the company, and Mylan in May was accused of overcharging the US government by $ 1.27 billion for EpiPens.

Big corporations typically have the resources to fight them off, which explains why most patent infringement lawsuits are filed against small to medium - sized companies.

The company filed a new lawsuit Friday in King County, Wash., Superior Court, against seven owners of websites such as amazonverifiedreviews.com, paidbookreviews.org, and amazonreviewsstar.com, alleging the sites are creating false product reviews and misleading Amazon's customers with flattering, «inauthentic» reviews.

In February 2018, 3M reached an agreement with the State of Minnesota that resolved the previously disclosed Natural Resource Damages (NRD) lawsuit filed by the State against the Company related to certain PFCs present in the environment.

A Michigan couple filed a class action lawsuit last week against Pokémon Go creator Niantic, along with the Pokémon Company and Nintendo, alleging that the game has turned their neighborhood into «a nightmare.»

The state is the biggest market for the two companies, and DraftKings and FanDuel fought back by filing their own lawsuits against Schneiderman.

The multiple worker classification lawsuits filed against the company were the «deciding factor.»

Two lawsuits filed against Welspun accuse the company of mislabeling its Egyptian cotton bed sheets.

Most recently, a Jan. 19 shareholder lawsuit filed in the Delaware Court of Chancery against the boards of Viacom and CBS Corp alleges the companies improperly paid millions for Redstone's services as executive chairman «while he was physically and mentally incapacitated.»

He noted that Lyft has filed a lawsuit against its former COO Travis VanderZanden, who joined Uber and allegedly took confidential internal documents to the rival company.

An offer for the studio from a group of investors led by former Obama administration official Maria Contreras - Sweet failed to produce a deal earlier this year, after New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman filed a civil lawsuit against the company and demanded more compensation for Harvey Weinstein's victims.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters)- A lawsuit filed by drivers against ride service Uber should not proceed as a class action, the company argued in a court filing on Thursday, citing written statements of support from hundreds of other Uber drivers in a case that could decide whether they are independent contractors or employees.

Mr. Schneiderman filed a lawsuit against the Weinstein Company on Sunday and demanded that any victims of Harvey Weinstein be justly compensated.

In June, the Illinois attorney general's office filed a lawsuit in Cook County Circuit Court against Jimmy John's, alleging the company imposes «highly restrictive non-compete agreements on its employees.»

There are other issues to settle, including the explosive lawsuit filed by Benchmark Capital — which owns more than 10 percent of the company and has a board seat held by Matt Cohler — against Kalanick, whom the venture firm helped oust and has been trying to restrain.

Various law firms filed a class action lawsuit last week against Westminster - based brake company Knorr - Bremse AG and its local Pennsylvania rival Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corp. on behalf of employees affected by their «no poach» agreements.

One of those workers filed a class action lawsuit against the company in the bankruptcy court for violating the federal WARN Act, which requires larger companies to give 60 days advance notice of layoffs.

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.

Lawsuits against FedEx and Uber have resulted in massive settlements, and just last week, a group representing 5,000 Uber drivers in New York City filed a lawsuit alleging the company misclassified them and denied them employment protections.

Other legal fights related to Uber include its battle with self - driving car company Waymo, which is suing Uber for allegedly stealing trade secrets, and a lawsuit filed by investor Benchmark against former chief executive officer Travis Kalanick claiming breach of contract.

Tesla Semi rival Nikola Motors has filed a $ 2 billion lawsuit against the California - based electric car and energy company.

In their class - action lawsuit against FPL, filed in county court September 26, the residents alleged the company misspent those storm - hardening funds.

The motion for the injunction comes a few weeks after Waymo filed a lawsuit against Uber and the head of its self - driving division, Anthony Levandowski, alleging the theft of a key part of Waymo's self - driving system before Levandowski left parent company Alphabet.