Sentences with phrase «debates over litigation»

A recurring theme in legislative debates over litigation funding is whether or not such agreements constitute loans and, as such, are subject to usury laws and other state regulations.

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The debate over the role of Congress will be further complicated by the impending U.S. midterm elections as well as constitutional litigation over the respective roles of the White House and Congress regarding abrogation of trade agreements.

What makes climate change different, they say, is that there are five new variables: uncertain and fragmented environmental legislation and regulations; the reactions of capital and insurance markets to emerging business opportunities (and matching risks) posed by climate change; stakeholder activism; pending litigation and the rapidly evolving scientific debate over proper responses to climate change.

Debate over the high - profile litigation has roiled the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, one of several trade groups that sought to overturn the regulation in federal court in Dallas earlier this month.

A fiery debate has been ongoing over a bill in the House that would allow for such litigation.

You have in your packet a blue sheet that gives you the order of the day, so I won't belabor that too much, but I will just remind you that we're going to start out with a session on history this morning; then go to a lunchtime segment that will focus on some of the relevant federal constitutional issues, including evaluations of the federal attacks on and defenses of the Blaine amendments; then we will finish off the day with a session that will focus on litigation strategy related to these amendments and some of the arguments being made for and against them in that litigation, as well as a focus on how debates over faith - based initiatives and school vouchers are affected by these particular state constitutional restrictions.

Even after years of debate and litigation over teacher evaluations and tenure, California had no official definition of what constituted a bad educator — until now.

Its president, Joe Bast, told me that «because there is a lively debate over the causes and consequences of climate change, this litigation has First Amendment implications.»

Often that debate occurs in the legislature, yet in some states it spills over into the courts, with claims that litigation funding contracts are illegal and unenforceable because they violate state regulations on loans.

The Court decided that the litigation started by Morris was indeed a SLAPP, noting it was commenced to «stifle debate about Mayor Morris» fitness for office», and awarded the defendants «special enhanced costs» of just over $ 21,000.

Rochester commercial litigation partner Carolyn Nussbaum authored this column about the debate over mandatory arbitration.

This week the BC Government is debating amendments to laws creating the Civil Resolution Tribunal to expand their powers to have mandatory jurisdiction over «minor» injury litigation.