Sentences with phrase «dollar lawsuit claiming»

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A U.S. judge approved the lawsuit, which claims that an artist was cheated out of possibly millions of dollars from the sale of the brand's pet toys she designed.

«State attorneys general told five of the nation's largest banks on Tuesday they face a potential liability of at least $ 17 billion in civil lawsuits if a settlement isn't reached to address improper foreclosure practices» a «figure [that] doesn't cover additional billions of dollars in potential claims from federal agencies,» the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.

A group of motorists have added the Port Authority as a defendant in a lawsuit claiming th at they are getting soaked with thousands of dollars in fines for missing...

The union always claims that the Vergara Lawsuit, the film «Waiting for Superman», Students First, Michelle Rhee, Students Matter, are all part of a proposal / plot by billionaires to do the following: A. Privatize all public education to funnel billions of dollars in profits to the top 1 % and mostly to a few billionaires.

Once the original creditor's debt claim goes through an unsuccessful lawsuit, there is an increased chance it will be sold to a junk debt buyer for pennies on the dollar.

After it was accused of secretly financing the film, whose filmmaker claimed cost just a half - million dollars, Greenpeace insisted it had merely funded the screenings, street protests and lawsuits.

In California, where the lawsuits seek billions of dollars to pay for mitigation measures, such as sea walls to protect coastal property, the oil and gas companies responded by seeking to move the cases to federal courts, where nuisance claims are less likely to succeed.

In August 2011, however, four of the five largest U.S. tobacco companies filed a lawsuit against the federal government claiming that requiring the gnarly warnings to accompany their product will violate their free speech rights, cost millions of dollars to print, and require them to feature anti-smoking advocacy more prominently than their own brands.

Civil lawsuits, where the amount claimed is less than a specified dollar amount, are often resolved in small claims courts.

I have directly participated in more than 300 litigation cases providing overall technical and legal case management from notice through trial if necessary, including working with trial counsel, development of case and trial strategy, dispute resolution, and in - depth evaluations of multiple high - dollar lawsuits and claims.

The parents» lawyer, Jay Paul Deratany, was previously in the news for threatening a parasitic lawsuit seeking $ 1 million from Knicks player Antonio Davis because Davis went into the stands to protect his wife from being attacked by an aggressive Chicago fan, even though Davis made no physical contact with anyone; the dispute settled within a week without actual litigation after bad publicity for Deratany's client (the son of a prominent political operative) caused the attorney to backtrack from the million - dollar damage claim.

Represented a refinery service contractor in a multi-million dollar lawsuit involving claims arising out of the refinery's refusal to pay for services and counterclaims by the refinery relating to alleged breaches of safety procedures.

Class actions enable many individuals with similar legal claims to join together into a single lawsuit, and it is one of the most important mechanisms to ensure that relatively small dollar claims are actually vindicated in court.

Well it seems the chicken (salad sandwich) has come home to roost, as some franchisee's have launched a suit against the company over that decision claiming that it has cost them large sums of money, to the tune of 1.95 billion dollars; or as MacLean's put it: Tim Hortons» extra-large trouble trouble or summed up more briefly in Restaurant News: Tim Hortons hit with $ 2 billion lawsuit.

For example, if a customer were to file a lawsuit against their insurance agent, regardless of nature, this errors and omission (E&O) insurance will defend the agent against the claim and cover any losses, if it should occur, up to pre-determined dollar amounts as prescribed in the E&O policy, usually in the millions of dollars.

No - fault laws were established to reduce or eliminate ordinary injury lawsuits affixed with low - dollar price tags and an overwhelming number of claims for pain and suffering.

West Palm Beach, Florida — The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a lawsuit today against a well - known patent troll that tried to shake down a small business owner for tens of thousands of dollars on bogus claims of infringement on patents that were never used and were expired or invalid.

Fifth Third Bank now joins Bank of America in the courtroom — both have, as of Friday, been hit with putative class action lawsuits claiming they gained millions of dollars in illegal referrals and kickbacks from private mortgage insurers.

«Amazon lied to one of New York's biggest commercial developers about taking space at one of a Midtown office towers, causing it to lose millions of dollars, a new lawsuit claims.»

«Because of the lengthy litigation history and the current lawsuits between RS» senior executives and TREB in which damages totaling more than half a billion dollars are claimed, counsel for RS undertook not to call Lawrence Dale as a witness on the RS topics.