Sentences with phrase «court cases brought»

Consumer class actions are civil federal or state court cases brought by one or more individuals on behalf of themselves and a larger group or «class» of individuals who have suffered the same harm.

Last year also marked a five - year - low in the number of defamation court cases brought against traditional media companies, with just 27 recorded.

My main point though is that it isn't gambling in the legal sense (there have been a number of court cases brought against card distributors over the years and they've all been dismissed).

Another federal appeals court has held that the parents of children with disabilities need to hire lawyers in court cases brought under the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.

A couple of days later, some newspapers carried various stories with same content, same wording, obviously by the same writer, accusing ex-Deputy Chief of Staff of being the brain behind the numerous court cases brought against the daughter of the founder of the NDC, to settle personal scores.

A federal judge Monday, in a court case brought by an anti-abortion group, allowed for exemptions to the Affordable Care Act based on an employer's moral objections.

Raymond Abbott's name appeared as lead plaintiff in a court case brought by Camden and several other poor school districts against the State of New Jersey, demanding that the state provide equal funding for all schools.

The successful court case brought by Andy Messersmith the previous winter had essentially freed ballplayers from the yoke of the reserve clause, allowing them to sell their services on the open market when their contracts expired.

One of the Brazilian campaigners appeared as a witness in January 2012 in a court case brought against Nestlé in Switzerland for spying on campaigners — click here.

There was a cloud over Kolb's candidacy: He was mentioned in a 2004 civil court case brought by a former female Assembly aide against the chamber's former counsel, Michael Boxley.

There was a cloud over Brian Kolb's candidacy: He was mentioned in a 2004 civil court case brought by a former female Assembly aide against the chamber's former counsel, Michael Boxley.

As good as Alien Isolation is (and everyone should definitely buy it for that bargain price), a VR version would at best be unwise, and at worse end up with a court case brought by the victims families.

So why do these court cases bring up Dr Singer's name at all?

The court case brought by Dr. Mann against his most outspoken critic, Dr. Timothy Ball, appears to have collapsed.

A court case brought about by the US has just started, which is what brings this again into the spotlight.The New York Times and AP both have current accounts of the US complaints, as we have covered here on TreeHugger.

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.

The People's Challenge supported the Supreme Court case brought by Gina Miller, which successfully challenged the government's proposal to use the Royal Prerogative to begin the Brexit process.

Represented Under Armour in a district court case brought by adidas AG accusing Under Armour and its subsidiary of infringing 13 patents related to wearable technology and mobile fitness applications.

Not exact matches

In June 2011, the twins announced they would halt their appeals, deciding not to bring the case to the Supreme Court.

The decision by NB Liquor comes just days after the Supreme Court of Canada ruled in the case of Gerard Comeau who was fined in 2012 for bringing home cheaper beer and liquor he bought in neighbouring Quebec.

These cases show that the courts need to bring common sense back into this area of the law.

The former wrestler and TV personality brought his case to court after the site published a sex tape starring Hogan.

In a one - sentence order, the court said it would decide a case brought by conservative challengers of the law.

It seemed a long shot — the Supreme Court hears only a small fraction of the cases brought before it.

The case was brought to court in order to put a line under the issue and gain clarification one way or the other.

(2) Bringing this case into court for litigation may be unusual but is not surprising; and (3) The concern about political influence in making this decision is an unfortunate cost of candidate and President Trump's disregard for the institutions of justice.

Another difference between a sole proprietor and a C corporation that imposes a bureaucratic burden arises if and when a corporation wishes to bring a case in small claims court.

The case, which was brought to court by the SFC, also resulted in suspensions from management ranging from three to four years for four independent non-executive directors for incompetence and «a marked indifference to their responsibilities,» according to the SFC.

A New York Court of Appeals is set to hear a case brought by Microsoft in response to a search warrant for emails that are on a server in Ireland.

The case — brought by Austria's Green party over insults to its leader — has international ramifications as the court ruled the postings must be deleted across the platform and not just in Austria, a point that had been left open in an initial ruling.

Of the five lawsuits filed against DOL, a Topeka, Kansas court will hold the first hearing on Aug. 24 in the case brought by insurer Market Synergy.

On October 13, 2017, the Delaware Court of Chancery dismissed a case brought by the blockchain firm R3 Holdco against Ripple Labs, another company active in the space, ruling that the court lacked jurisdiction to hear the lawCourt of Chancery dismissed a case brought by the blockchain firm R3 Holdco against Ripple Labs, another company active in the space, ruling that the court lacked jurisdiction to hear the lawcourt lacked jurisdiction to hear the lawsuit.

The workers demanded that they be able to bring their cases together — not in individual arbitrations — which set their case on the path to the Supreme Court.

Joseph Smith was never known to be a liar, and in fact, all court cases point out that those who brought him to trial were the prevaricators.

If you were to utilize these tools in order to research the court cases that took prayer out of schools, you would find that the major court cases were brought forth by Catholics, Mormons and Jews.

Well if we bring this case to present times, the Egyptians not only the pharaoh were guilty of mistreating, killing and have the Hebrews as slaves, and any court of law Would Have found Them Guilty And Maybe Put Them On Death Row.

When we seek instead to «pay something back to the victims and bring them closure,» we are doing a justice either lower (as in civil - court cases) or higher (as in repaying blood with blood)» but, in any case, something that should not be a model for how we deal with criminals.

The political use of Hindutva has survived several court cases, most notably a major one in 1995 brought by those who felt that its allure was primarily religious in nature and hence violated India's constitution, which prohibits candidates from appealing to voters exclusively on religious grounds.

Before the federal court as we write is a case brought by the U.S. Attorney against a co-op building on the Lower East Side for refusing a woman permission to keep a stray pit bull she adopted.

The annual Mass is an event put on by the Archdiocese of Washington and the John Carroll Society and aims to bring people together to pray for the members of the judiciary before the court begins hearing cases each year.

«Both the statute and case law surrounding private prosecutions are adamant that courts must protect the right of access to these private prosecutions, by not assessing punitive costs against the person seeking justice - unless the case is frivolous, and never should have been brought.

On that basis the court ruled that Newdow did not have legal status to bring the case on his daughter's behalf.

This is a case for the World Court, where we should bring all such crimes to task.

In recent years the International Court of Justice — the World Court — has ruled against the U.S. in human rights cases brought by Nicaragua and Paraguay.

He then brought a new case in the federal courts to consider, among other things, whether a state could reverse the «once free, always free» principle under which the St. Louis County Court had ruled in Scott's favor.

In an action that seems very ahead of its time for any institution, the case was reported to the civil authorities in 1973 though these did not bring it to court.

The district court dismissed the case, stating that it could only be brought under federal law.

[p 15] Only a handful of cases were brought before the courts on the reliance on the provision.

Judge Claudia Wilken, who presided over the O'Bannon case, issued an order declaring that the NCAA and some of the conferences will have to defend the rules against players receiving more than tuition, room and board (and now a cost - of - attendance stipend) in open court in a case brought by a plaintiff group that includes former Clemson cornerback Martin Jenkins and former Wisconsin forward Nigel Hayes.

So before you push back and ask the courts to review your case one more time (in the hopes of winning sole custody), consider the unexpected benefits you can expect to enjoy once you all get used to the changes brought on by a joint custody arrangement.