Sentences with phrase «defense of a lawsuit»

Rhode Island's governmental issuer of tobacco settlement revenue - backed bonds in defense of a lawsuit brought by two municipal bond funds seeking to block a proposed $ 600 million municipal bond issuance.

Special counsel to Hamilton County Commissioners in defense of lawsuit alleging violations of Ohio's Sunshine Law.

This experience includes both major class action cases and defense of lawsuits brought by individuals, including claims of wrongfully denied insurance and disability benefits.

Furthermore, we have achieved favorable results in both the prosecution and defense of lawsuits for the commissions of brokers» and manufacturers» representatives, as well as in suits for the reformation and rescission of contracts.

May a corporate lawyer and his law firm be sued in Delaware as to claims arising out of their actions in providing advice and services to a Delaware public corporation, its directors, and its managers regarding matters of Delaware corporate law when the lawyer and law firm: i) prepared and delivered to Delaware for filing a certificate amendment under challenge in the lawsuit; ii) advertise themselves as being able to provide coast - to - coast legal services and as experts in matters of corporate governance; iii) provided legal advice on a range of Delaware law matters at issue in the lawsuit; iv) undertook to direct the defense of the lawsuit; and v) face well - pled allegations of having aided and abetted the top managers of the corporation in breaching their fiduciary duties by entrenching and enriching themselves at the expense of the corporation and its public stockholders?

He provides employers with advice and counseling, drafts employee handbooks and policies, and represents corporations in the defense of lawsuits alleging wrongful termination, harassment, and discrimination.

Defended clean energy manufacturing company in defense of a lawsuit alleging misappropriation of trade secrets.

Students will be associates in a hypothetical law firm and will handle the e-discovery aspects of the firm's defense of the lawsuit.

Every year millions of dollars are paid out in defense of lawsuits based solely on errors in the paperwork, including typographical errors in the recording of square footage, acreage — and negligent and fraudulent misrepresentations.

Therefore, the Broker and Brokerage were negligent in their representation of the Bank and so were liable to the Bank for all costs incurred in its defense of this lawsuit.

Not exact matches

Pishevar requested to join a lawsuit in defense of Kalanick that was brought by the venture capital firm Benchmark, another Uber backer.

Feb 20 (Reuters)-- Lockheed Martin Corp agreed to pay $ 62 million to settle a lawsuit in which employees accused the defense contractor of mismanaging their 401 (k) retirement plan, court papers made public on Friday show.

Zzyym's lawsuit, filed last year by the LGBT rights legal firm Lambda Legal Defense Fund in federal court in Denver, argued that the policy of requiring either a male or female designation on passport applications violated due process and equal protection rights for intersex people.

In fact, in December 2017 a Virginia district court judge ruled against a female plaintiff in a lawsuit alleging sex discrimination, sexual harassment, and retaliation against defense contractor BAE Systems, in part, because she «did not take advantage of BAE's harassment reporting procedures of which she was well aware.»

Ten environmental groups including the Sierra Club and the Natural Resources Defense Council are involved in the lawsuit, which claims that Trump doesn't have the authority to reduce the size of Grand Staircase - Escalante under the Antiquities Act of 1906.

The Alliance Defense Fund, a Christian civil rights group, and the Discovery Institute, a proponent of intelligent design, are supporting Coppedge's lawsuit.

SLAPP is basically «a lawsuit that is intended to censor, intimidate, and silence critics by burdening them with the cost of a legal defense until they abandon their criticism or opposition.»

The FDA agreed to rule on whether to ban BPA use in food and beverage packaging as part of the settlement of a lawsuit reached in December with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC).

Besides the sponsorship, Google's most visible role in the proceedings fell to Elliot Schrage, the company's VP for Global Communications, whose Thursday afternoon presentation made a little news here, there and elsewhere, particularly his comments about the Viacom / YouTube lawsuit and the ease with which false information can spread through the «net (his defense of Google China got less notice).

Nabozny, with the help of the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, won a landmark federal lawsuit (and eventually settled for close to $ 1 million) against school administrators in his home state of Wisconsin who failed to a spate of stop brutal anti-gay bullying at his school of which he was the target.

The largest recipient was Proskauer Rose LLP, who received $ 141,000 for defense of Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver in a federal lawsuit regarding sexual harassment allegations against Vito Lopez.

The settlement of a lawsuit brought by Suffolk, Washington, Ontario, Onondaga, and Schuyler counties would have the Office of Indigent Legal Services provide for public defense in those counties.

A number of witnesses were to testify in favor of a marriage equality plank in the platform: Marc Solomon, national campaign director for Freedom to Marry; Allison Herwitt, legislative director for the Human Rights Campaign; Army Chief Warrant Officer Charlie Morgan, a lesbian New Hampshire guardsman with stage - four incurable breast cancer and a plaintiff in Servicemembers Legal Defense Network's lawsuit against the Defense of Marriage Act; Michael Macleod - Ball, the American Civil Liberties Union's chief of staff for the Washington Legislative Office; and Aaron Zellhoefer, a gay delegate to the Democratic National Convention representing the National Stonewall Democrats.

Wright's defense, according to the Daily Breeze, was based on a 1982 lawsuit upholding the residency of a special district director.

She is best known in the LGBT community for her work as assistant attorney general on the Massachusetts challenge to the Defense of Marriage Act, a lawsuit complementary to one led by Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders.

That lies at the crux of Paladino's 27 - page lawsuit, as well as the defense Vacco is expected to make next week at the state hearing.

We understand how it works — and small owners have no power but it is not going to stop with small property owners — they just needed to effectively neutralize us through impoverishment and unpopularity first — but the retailers are going to catch it and frankly, having these small business service things just waste money — it's not going to be a proper defense if there is a lawsuit and there will never be a federal prosecution of what this city does.

The public legal defense system in Onondaga County is being highlighted by a civil liberties group on the eve of a lawsuit against the state to change it.

A New York judge has rejected a lawsuit brought by the right - wing Christian group Alliance Defense Fund against New York Governor David Paterson, aimed to thwart his directive that New York state recognize same - sex marriages performed out - of - state:... Read

A New York judge has rejected a lawsuit brought by the right - wing Christian group Alliance Defense Fund against New York Governor David Paterson, aimed to thwart his directive that New York state recognize same - sex marriages performed out - of - state:

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has filed briefs in the Edie Windsor lawsuit challenging the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).

In an effort to pull the government lever, in 2007, at the request of friends at the Natural Resources Defense Council, Aspen Skiing Company filed an amicus (friend - of - the - court) brief to the U.S. Supreme Court on a lawsuit entitled Massachusetts v. EPA.

The FDA was forced to make its determination as part of a settlement to a lawsuit filed in August by the National Resources Defense Council, an environmental group based in New York.

Commerce made the memos public as part of its response to a lawsuit filed in July in U.S. District Court in Washington by Ocean Conservancy and the Environmental Defense Fund.

It's one of five lawsuits filed so far by American Indian tribes and environmental organizations like Access Fund, Natural Resources Defense Council, and Sierra Club.

Among the more thundering voices of authority is Wilma L. Vaught, a retired Air Force brigadier general, who appears later in the film to discuss a lawsuit brought by military rape victims against former defense secretaries Robert Gates and Donald Rumsfeld.

Originally released under the name Trenched last summer, a lawsuit forced Microsoft and Double Fine to change the name of their action packed, mech centric, tower defense title to Iron Brigade.

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed last week to review an important procedural case affecting the ability of government officials, including school administrators, to raise a defense of immunity in civil rights lawsuits.

Analysts have cited a legion of reasons for the state's slide in achievement: the steady leaching of resources from the schools that was the inevitable result of the infamous 1970s property - tax revolt led by Howard Jarvis; a long period of economic woes caused by layoffs in the defense industry; curriculum experiments with «whole language» reading instruction and «new math» that were at best a distraction and at worst quite damaging; a school finance lawsuit that led to a dramatic increase in the state's authority over school budgets and operations; and a massive influx of new students and non-English-speaking immigrants that almost surely depressed test scores.

The lawsuit is the first test of the applicability of the state's 1972 Equal Rights Amendment to voting - rights issues, said James C. Harrington, legal director of the Texas Civil Liberties Union, which together with the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund is representing the plaintiffs.

We at IDRA applaud the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund for filing its lawsuit this week against the state of Texas over school funding on behalf of four property - poor school districts and three parents.

Ms. Moskowitz, a former city councilwoman who recently announced she would not run for mayor in 2017, was speaking at New York Law School, part of their CityLaw breakfast series, and gave what was mostly a typical Success Academy stump speech: save for an introduction that was more of a defense against recent lawsuits and media stories, and for a conclusion that saw parents of former Success students livening up the typically staid CityLaw audience to demand apologies or answers from Ms. Moskowitz.

Plaintiffs in the lawsuit challenging state laws that govern teacher employment put their case on pause today, allowing the defense team to call one of its key experts to the witness stand.

The Guild advocates for authors on issues of copyright, fair contracts, free speech, and tax fairness, and has initiated lawsuits in defense of authors» rights, where necessary.

A lot of the sentiment coming from the defense in the on - going Apple anti-trust lawsuit, brought about by the Department of Justice following a three - year investigation involving five of the largest publishers in the world, is that the DOJ is wasting its time going after a company that was in a distant third place behind Amazon and Barnes and Noble.

Mark my word, there will be a lot of lawsuits over this if they continue and have the information «in public» will not really be a defense.

You need to protect yourself against that, because the defense costs for one lawsuit alone could wipe out the savings of most people, not to mention the actual judgment arising from the suit.

Below are some examples of real clients who I have helped in debt collection lawsuit defense:

If that person files a lawsuit against you, your renters liability insurance will also help to cover the costs of your legal defense.

A broken bone and the resulting lawsuit would ultimately cost hundreds of thousands of dollars when you include defense costs.