Sentences with phrase «defendants paying»

Lawyers frequently advise defendants against apologizing, because apologies can be interpreted as admissions of guilt, which could be leveraged into defendants paying more money in settlement and / or at trial.

Instead of helping plaintiffs get justice, litigation financing may result in plaintiffs getting less than what they truly deserve as well as defendants paying more than they should.

For example, in one Department of Corrections case, the state paid out $ 333,333 and an individual named as a defendant paid $ 333, the record stated.

«In the course of making the cash payments, the third defendant paid the first defendant the total sum of N30, 000,000.00 cash.»

Defendants pay a bail agent 10 percent of the full cash bail amount.

Shorter term, there's that restitution fund that could approach half a billion dollars by the time all the Defendants pay their share for all the states, and if Amazon plays its cards right it could end up seeing much of that money invested in Kindle book purchases.

The settlement document actually says that there are some restrictions in customer discounts going forward, but that «such agreed restrictions shall not interfere with the E-book Retailer's ability to reduce the final price paid by consumers to purchase the Settling Defendant's E-books by an aggregate amount equal to the total commissions the Settling Defendant pays to the E-book Retailer.»

When child custody jurisdiction is based solely upon the child's residence, and not upon the defendant's residence, does the family court have jurisdiction to make the defendant pay the plaintiff's attorneys fees?

Rather than manually reviewing the huge volume of resultant records, Defendants paid H5 to employ its proprietary technology to sort these records into responsive and non-responsive documents.

The final agreed judgment in the matter found the ex-director liable for misappropriation in the sum of # 250,000 and that the Defendants pay the Claimants» costs of the proceedings.

Under this scheme the claimant is not required to pay the defendant's costs if the claim fails, but the defendant pays the claimant's costs if the claim succeeds.

In some cases, you can petition the court to have the defendant pay your attorneys» fees.

The Judge ordered that the Defendant pay $ 10,000 in damages to the Plaintiff.

[14] In my view, having considered all of the factors, it is appropriate that the defendant pay the plaintiff costs at Scale B for the steps taken up to and including the date the plaintiff served the formal offer to settle with double costs thereafter, excluding disbursements which will be at the normal rate.

The standard position is that the Claimant should pay the Defendant's costs of the application limited to # 250, however, if a court determines that a Defendant is at fault for the Claimant having to needlessly issue the application, then a court will usually make the Defendant pay the legal costs of # 250, plus the court issue fee.

«In just 15 percent of cases,» the NYT reports, «both sides were right to go to trial — meaning that the defendant paid less than the plaintiff had wanted but the plaintiff got more than the defendant had offered.»

The court also ordered that the defendant pay my client $ 500 in costs (which is a fraction of the costs actually incurred by my client).

While the defendant paid state investigators a $ 70,000 fine for their part in the explosion, they have yet to take full responsibility by compensating the plaintiff for her serious injuries.

The defendant paid the ticket.

Does the defendant pay any of the fee?

The judge did not take a position on whether it was extortion or, as the Crown argued, a misguided attempt to get closure by having the defendant pay for counselling and rehabilitation.

Even if you win in small claims, its difficult for the average «joe» to figure out how to make the defendant pay up.

He therefore made a conditional order that the defendants pay a sum of money into court as a condition of defending the claim.

I asked for a mitigating factor that the defendant paid restitution.

Likewise, even if your medical were paid by insurance, an experienced attorney may be able to have the defendant pay those expenses as well, even though they have already been paid by your own personal insurance.

There remains the need to justify making the defendant pay what it made from the tort to the plaintiff.

He found he would have been compelled to order that the defendant pay the penalty despite the clear arrangement between the defendant and landlord — a completely unjust result.

The judge had used the Sanderson model to order costs, which follows that the losing defendant pays the cost of the successful defendants.

Settled — Defendant paid $ 1,000 of $ 10,000 disbursements.

You really would not want to erode any strength in your position right now by contacting the defendant and the defendant pays you partial and you loose all the good footing you have now.

In November 2007, the defendant paid the lower rate of commission and within two years of that date the plaintiff sued for breach of contract.

The defendant paid the rent of $ 650 per month.

In our eyes, it's no different than having a defendant pay $ 25,000 to the plaintiff's attorney to convince his client to settle a lawsuit.

Not exact matches

Ironically, when Defendant Carter purchased the TIDAL Music Service in 2015, it claimed it would be the first streaming service to pay the artists.

Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) BRF employees paid bribes to regulators and politicians to subvert inspections in order to conceal unsanitary practices at the Company's meatpacking plants; (ii) the foregoing conduct, when it came to light, would foreseeably subject the Company and its officers to heightened regulatory enforcement and / or prosecution; and (iii) as a result of the foregoing, BRF's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.

«By shirking its responsibilities to pay its workers,» states the document, the «defendant is in essence thumbing its nose both at their workers and the taxing authorities of all states and the U.S. government.»

The Shield Act aims to thwart frivolous lawsuits by requiring trolls to pay for defendants» legal expenses should they lose in court — a pretty big demotivator, if you ask me.

US prosecutors have asked the court to «make a strenuous inquiry into whether the defendant is financially unable to afford counsel» in order to prevent taxpayers from «needlessly» paying for the defense of man reputed to be worth billions.

The undercover agent said that former sports agent Christian Dawkins bluntly explained the benefits of paying bribes to Lamont Evans, associate head coach of Oklahoma State's basketball team, to other defendants.

A proven model — proven, that is, by billionaire Peter Thiel — for bankrupting news companies and driving them out of business by using the court system and jury trials, which can leverage public disgust for The Media (see no. 6 above) into jury awards that defendants can not possibly pay.

In the wrongful death lawsuit, Peterson, a 33 - year law enforcement officer who was suspended without pay and immediately resigned and retired after the shooting, is listed as a defendant alongside Cruz.

Patent trolls leaned on sympathetic (and self - interested) judges to bully easy settlements out of defendants and force end consumers to pay more for all sorts of products.

Under the terms of the settlement, $ 150 million will be paid by TAP on behalf of all defendants.

They should be rooted in the facts of what will help a wounded person heal and find a fresh start» and not on a litigation «market price» based on the last highest settlement paid by another institutional defendant.

Bryan actually argued against even a monetary fine, and — far from demanding a harsher penalty for Scopes — offered to pay the defendant's fine himself.

«They'll say, «I don't mind paying for my kids, but I don't want to pay for her too,»» says Schwartz, who specializes in paternity litigation, representing plaintiffs and defendants.

But I could not know that until I saw the will, and the defendant refused me a sight until discovery; I then took what steps I could to reduce the costs» you would almost certainly not have to pay the other side's costs, and you might be awarded your own.

I share the view expressed by objective and reasonable members of the public that because the government was the 1st defendant / respondent against whom the Supreme Court made declarations of unconstitutional conduct in paying the judgment debt to Alfred Agbesi Woyome, the government has been pretending for purely political reasons at each turn to take steps to enforce the judgment and orders of the court only to deliberately abort them.

«Unless compelled by an order of the court, the defendants will not pay our gratuities as approved by the government,» their statement said.

Defendant is among the highest paid African footballers.