While these incidences are relatively rare, it is not uncommon in Alabama to have a landlord take a tenant to
court over damage due to water or fire.
During the same month, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) brought a company similar to the one featured in this story to federal
court over damages and losses to defrauded student borrowers according to the Student Loan Report.
Property damage liability can help you avoid going to
court over damaging a local business sign in downtown Fairborn, OH.
Not exact matches
VANCOUVER — British Columbia's
court case
over the flow of heavy oil through the province could be
damaged by the NDP government's previous positions against the expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline, says a legal expert.
According to statements filed in
court, the Australians feel their methods are «sufficiently different to have not infringed» the property rights of the Royal Canadian Mint, which also want the Australians to admit they infringed the patent, to hand
over or destroy all advertising and promotional materials related to the Australian coins, and to either surrender profits or pay
damages.
The
court was asked to order Campus Crusade to turn
over any revenue earned by the children's video, to award
damages and, finally, to restore all film rights to the Genesis Project.
FSU's win
over the Boston College Eagles all but burst the latter's bubble, while the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, with Bonzie Colson back on the
court, will need to do some real
damage in Brooklyn to earn a bid following their Saturday loss in Charlottesville.
But Miner's relationship with the current council has been
damaged by repeated fights, including a recent
court battle
over the city computer use policy.
New Scotland Town Justice David Wukitsch, who presided
over the case in City
Court, also ordered Lee's license revoked for at least a year and directed her to pay a $ 500 fine, plus $ 395 state surcharge in addition to an as - yet - undetermined amount of restitution to the woman whose car was
damaged.
Former Governor Odili is asking for the sum of six billion naira in
damages for alleged character defamation by Dakuku Pererside
over his comments that Dr. Odili played a role in the alleged bribery of Supreme
Court Judges that gave judgement in favour of the Rivers state Governor, Nyesom Wike.
Counsel to the plaintiff had earlier said they were in
court to claim
damages for the stress and harassment his client went through
over the issue.
An Abuja High
Court has ordered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to pay a sum of N10m
damages to an Abuja based foreigner and security expert Mr. Wolgang Reinl
over his unlawful detention and seizure of his international Passport by the anti-graft agency.
The bill could also allow charters to collect
damages from local school systems in the event they won a
court fight with the system
over funding.
By reaching a settlement outside of
court, Apple is avoiding the trial, scheduled for July 14, in which the iPad and iPhone maker faced
over $ 840 million in potential
damages.
While the publishers have all stated rather vehemently that they are not guilty of any wrongdoing in the matter, they opted to settle the case out of
court and pay
damages in the millions of dollars because it would have been less expensive than going to trial
over the allegations.
Over the next several weeks, Samsung and Apple will be going at it in
court and if Apple wins, it could either mean injunctions on Samsung's various devices or a quite hefty fine of $ 2.525 Billion for «
damages».
A US appeals
court has rejected Apple's attempt to delay the
damages trial
over its ebook price - fixing scandal.
If you're sued
over these
damages, this will also pay for your lawyer and
court fees as described in your policy.
Over e-mail last year, after news broke that a developer retaliated against YouTuber Jim Sterling after his negative review with a DMCA takedown of it, Sterling told Kotaku that «In order to fight a counter-claim, they would have to pursue it in
court... So far nobody's done that, as it's the point in the process where a developer actually opens itself up to any form of consequence — if they fail, the YouTuber can then take them to
court and seek
damages.
July 17, 2017: San Mateo County, Marin County and Imperial Beach file separate lawsuits in California Superior
Court seeking
damages from 37 fossil fuel companies
over sea level rise.
Well
over three years ago now, Michael E Mann, the global - warming «hockey stick» inventor who falsely represents himself as a Nobel Laureate, filed a claim of
damages for defamation against me and Rand Simberg, National Review and the Competitive Enterprise Institute in the DC Superior
Court.
In their defense against the cities suing
over sea level rise
damages, the oil industry lawyers essentially argued that the blame lies not on the producers, but rather the consumers of fossil fuels, and that any economic issues should be addressed through policy rather than in the
court system.
Reasons for judgement were released last week by the BC Supreme
Court, New Westminster Registry, with the «curious result» of costs recovery at
over double the amount of assessed
damages.
The
Court noted that although enhanced
damage awards are discretionary, they must be consistent with a pattern laid out in
over 180 years of case law under the Patent Act and earlier statutes.
In other work, the team represented a software company in a dispute
over the possible ineffectiveness of a brand acquisition, and Uwe Hornung defended the law firm Gleiss Lutz against
damage claims brought by Stefan Mappus, former minister president of the state of Baden - Württemberg, before the Regional
Court of Stuttgart and the Higher Regional
Court of Stuttgart with regards to the alleged violation of third - party protection obligations.
She sued in the BC Supreme
Court and was awarded
damages of just
over $ 12,000.
An Illinois appellate
court in 2013 said that a waiver releasing a gym from all liability for any loss or
damage was valid and that the trial
court was right to dismiss a member's lawsuit
over an injury that left him quadriplegic, Hussein v. L.A. Fitness, 2013 IL App (1st)(2013).
In resolving this ambiguity, the
Court reviewed the relevant case law and narrowly construed the subject exclusion, finding that the Motorized Vehicle Exclusion is intended to apply when the insured's negligence giving rise to liability is founded in an act or omission in which the insured exercises «some form of control
over» a motorized vehicle and that conduct causes «bodily injury» or «property
damage».
These
damages are based on a history of case law, or precedents, which have developed in our
court system
over many years.
It asked the
court to tell the jury about that interpretation of the patent (which will now finally happen, tomorrow, as a result of the Federal Circuit decision), and it wanted to point to Apple's own 60 - cent - per - device
damages claim
over this patent in the Motorola case.
In a recent Supreme
Court decision P.G. Kent - Snowsell and P. Tung were successful in having ICBC pay a client
over $ 500,000.00 in
damages.
The case went to trial, and the
court found in favor of the plaintiff on the failure to supervise claim and the failure to properly inspect the premises, and it awarded
over $ 50,000 in
damages.
In the
Court of Appeal, she argued that the
damages were too low given the employer's egregious conduct and asked for a new sum of
over $ 1 million.
We have
over 150 years of combined experience helping accident victims and our firm of Edmonton Injury Lawyers has set the Canadian precedent for injury
damages in two of the trilogy of cases decided in 1978 by the Supreme
Court of Canada.
The archive includes all the
court's records from 1804 to 1875, most of which involve, as the site itself describes it, «civil suits brought by ordinary men and women pursuing justice in disputes
over debts,
damages and broken promises.»
The possibility of a 4 - 4 ruling in the Exxon Valdez punitive
damages case as a result of Justice Alito's recusal (he holds stock in Exxon) has triggered a discussion around the blogosphere
over whether there's a better way for the
Court to handle recusals so as to avoid the possibility of a tie vote (in which case, the appellate court's ruling sta
Court to handle recusals so as to avoid the possibility of a tie vote (in which case, the appellate
court's ruling sta
court's ruling stands).
While the
courts remain slow to conclude that a dog bite or a fall from a horse is unlikely to cause severe injury, there is certainly scope for a defendant to argue in less obvious cases, such as, for example, a claimant being knocked
over by a dog, that the
damage was not likely to be severe and that consequently the claimant has failed to satisfy the requirements of s 2 (2)(a).
In reasons for judgement released today Madam Justice Dillon of the BC Supreme
Court awarded an injured Plaintiff just
over $ 200,000 in
damages as a result of a «hit and run» accident.
After a favorable New Jersey Supreme
Court ruling, class members were directly paid just
over 100 % of their actual
damages.
The district
courts in New Mexico have general jurisdiction
over claims when the
damages are
over $ 10,000, and the magistrate
courts have jurisdiction when the
damages are under $ 10,000.
At trial the
Court made some critical findings relating to the Plaintiff's credibility and awarded
damages of just
over $ 20,000.
A
court may award such an individual money
damages to account for the wages they will lose
over time.
The trend in the
courts seems to be a rise in the number of large
damages awarded, especially in cases of ongoing abuse occurring
over a period of years.
The application of the «real and substantial connection» test for enforcement of foreign judgments was further clarified by the Ontario
Court of Appeal in a recent decision, part of a bitter and protracted legal battle
over nearly $ 10 billion in environmental
damages caused by the operations of Texaco (later acquired by the defendant Chevron) in Ecuador.
Represented third - party defendant in the U.S. District
Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma in suit claiming fraud in connection with failed asset - backed securities and seeking
over $ 100 million in
damages.
The judgments in the
courts increasingly emphasise the
damage done by the legal costs (
over # 1m in the case of Mr and Mrs Fields) and the use of
court time taken by such bitter disputes.
The appeal revolved around whether the
court could or should award
damages and / or specific performance of the lease covenants
over replacement of the jacuzzi by a sauna.
Mew successfully represented Lloyd's Underwriters in its 2009 case at the Supreme
Court of Canada versus Teck Cominco Metals Ltd., which sued its insurers
over coverage in relation to
damage caused downstream from a British Columbia smelter.
Contentious disputes
over abortion rights, race, punitive
damages, and the environment loom large, and the
Court has only just begun to fill its argument calendar for the term.
In a recent decision, the
Court of Appeal partially upheld a trial judge's decision awarding
over $ 70,000 in
damages to the purchasers of a home as a result of fraudulent misrepresentations made by the vendors prior to the deal going through.