Sentences with phrase «defendants in cases»

It appears to me that the defendants in these cases might have known about the REBBA license exclusions before hand and thence sucked the plaintiffs in, encouraging / contracting them to provide services for which the defendants believed that they would not be legally held monetarily accountable.

Not only has it been an excellent way for me to hone my mediation skills, and other volunteers to hone their mediation skills, but Judge Segars - Andrews informs me that mediation has been resolving about half the cases that are mediated, freeing up badly needed docket time and reducing the imposition on court - appointed lawyers who represent defendants in these cases.

Additionally, defendants in these cases are held jointly and severally liable, meaning that each and every defendant is liable for the total amount of damages arising from the trafficking.

Furthermore, defendants in these cases are often large organizations with expert legal teams acting on their behalf.

Of course, defendants in these cases will likely try and evade liability by all means, and you should be prepared with as strong a case as possible.

ICBC admitted fault on behalf of the defendants in both cases.

The questions Kaine raised as a defense lawyer were mostly related to process — from the time given for federal court review of cases and the rules that Virginia state courts had for review of capital cases to the quality of the lawyers provided to criminal defendants in those cases and the way those lawyers carried out that defense — but that process, as Kaine said at the time, is sometimes the difference between life and death.

The defendants in these cases claimed that poker takes more brains than luck to win, a distinction that would exempt them from gambling laws in 37 states.

Some of the defendants in cases like these may even have dementia and may not even remember themselves what they did in their youth.

Punitive damages are also available in many jurisdictions to punish defendants in those cases involving particularly egregious conduct which demonstrates a reckless or wanton disregard for the safety of the public.

Anxiety levels have been raised by the French government with the recommendation that these implants are removed and key discussions are taking place as to the appropriate defendants in these cases (eg manufacturer, clinics, clinicians, hospital).

He has represented both plaintiffs and defendants in cases involving a wide variety of claims, including breach of contract, professional malpractice, personal injury, insurance bad faith, and debt and judgment collection actions.

I think the lack of compassion by the defendants in my cases can really wear on me.

I will start recommending More Perfect to them as a way to encourage them to think about the plaintiffs and defendants in the cases they read in my classes and their other classes.

It's unclear in this case whether there were any warnings or liability waivers signed by those who rode the bull, but defendants in these cases have been known to assert the defense that claimants assumed the risk when they chose to ride.

While certain occupiers will not offer services and while many service providers will not be occupiers, the defendants in these cases were both occupiers and service providers.

She has represented both plaintiffs and defendants in cases on a wide variety of claims, including breach of contract, fraud, defamation, and civil liability for cyberstalking.

Why are all of the defendants in my cases suddenly showing up in court wearing hipster - style glasses, kind of like Urkel from the old TV show «Family Matters»?

The instinct of the defendants in these cases has been to address # 2.

«The defendants in these cases are among the biggest companies in the world, with the largest law firms on their side and virtually unlimited war chests,» Knox said.

If it wasn't for the media exposing them the defendants in those cases would be sitting in jail.

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The defendants in these cases were Lockheed Martin Corp and Ameriprise Financial, fiduciaries of their respective 401k plans.

Multiple defendants in the case, as well as Trump himself, have gone on the offensive, saying the lawsuit provides an opportunity to obtain records from the DNC.

Levandowski, regarded as a visionary in autonomous technology, is not a defendant in the case but is on Waymo's witness list.

«A moron can see today that there were no crimes committed by the defendants in our case,» he said after giving a speech in New York in March.

The defendants in the case «fully expected that when I was in their office and they said, «Raj, you have a choice between walking away a rich man and being ruined in court and in the press,» that I would chose to walk away a rich man,» Bhakta says.

The other defendant in the case is Christopher Evison, who is the managing director at Quadrant Capital Advisors and investment advisor for WP Holdings, which is an investment arm of the multi-billionaire dollar Santo Domingo family from Columbia.

Among those banks named as defendants in the case are Citigroup (c) and J.P. Morgan Chase (jpm).

In February, the agency dismissed charges against six defendants in the case, according to federal court records.

Defendants in the case include Bank of America, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley, UBS, various of their subsidiaries, as well as EquiLend, which is owned by the banks and investors including BlackRock, Northern Trust and State Street.

Other defendants in the case include a former Agriculture Department microbiologist credited with coining the term «pink slime» in a 2002 email to colleagues.

Specifically, BPI was seeking all of my confidential communications in 2012 with the defendants in the case, including employees of ABC News and the two former USDA microbiologists who first expressed concern about the meat filler in private emails later made public by the New York Times.

Circuit Judge Dorothy Kirie Kinnaird also continued to prohibit the defendants in the case — current and former Park District officials — from any attempts to reform the district's controversial police department.

Editors Note: Attorney Bill Marler, publisher of Food Safety News, represented retired USDA scientists Gerald Zirnstein and Carl Custer until they were dismissed as defendants in this case.

The defendants in the case are former Nassau County executive Ed Mangano, his wife Linda, and Oyster Bay town supervisor John Venditto.

Calls and emails to Howe's attorney, as well as lawyers representing the four defendants in the case, were not immediately returned.

Defendants in the case include three former executives from LPCiminelli, the giant Buffalo general contracting firm, as well as Alain Kaloyeros, the former SUNY Polytechnic Institute leader who ran several of Cuomo's major initiatives, including the Buffalo Billion.

Like other defendants in the case, Aiello and Gerardi do not want their cases combined with others in a single trial, saying it would imply they were part of an overall conspiracy.

He has pleaded guilty to bribing de Blasio and the defendants in the case.

The defendants in that case include Alain Kaloyeros, former president and CEO of the SUNY Polytechnic Institute, who's accused of rigging bids for a $ 750,000 contract tied to that project and $ 105 million in contracts for a film studio and manufacturing plant near Syracuse.

Arguing a motion he filed to challenge the court's summons, the lawyer said he would not be able to testify in the matter because of the existing relationship between his chambers and the third defendant in the case (Slok Nigeria Limited).

The jury said it couldn't reach a unanimous decision on a fourth defendant in the case, energy company executive Peter Galbraith Kelly, who had been accused of arranging a $ 90,000 - per - year job for Percoco's wife.

«It is my decision that this court has jurisdiction on the charges filed against the first defendant in this case and the notice of preliminary objection is dismissed,» Justice Solebo ruled.

At the last sitting, Justice Cornelius Akintayo while refusing the ex-parte motion had ordered the applicant to put the defendants in the case on notice to prepare for defence.

«I would have asked that the defendants in this case be discharged and allow to go home pending the time the prosecution would get serious for their trial.

The defendants in that case have been split into two trial groups.

Redlich's opponent in the 2010 race, Carl Paladino, and his former campaign manager Michael Caputo, are also defendants in the case.

Kaloyeros and the other defendants in the case, including several prominent upstate developers and a former top aide to Cuomo, have all pleaded not guilty in the case.

Now a government cooperator, Howe will spell out how he committed the crimes with company executives who are defendants in the case, as well as with longtime Cuomo family loyalist Percoco.