Sentences with phrase «dollar lawsuit filed»

Billion dollar lawsuit filed: LAWYERS of interim Finance Minister, Mahendra Chaudhry, filed a one billion dollar lawsuit yesterday.

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«Anyone who is educated on environmental issues understands why we're out here,» says Quarmby, one of several Canadians facing a $ 5.6 million dollar lawsuit filed by Texas - based energy corporation Kinder Morgan after she publicly spoke against their proposed pipeline.

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The use of dubious billion - dollar lawsuits to apply pressure on Alfa's partners — filed in remote regions of Russia by obscure private shareholders whose interests somehow overlapped perfectly with Alfa's — became a favorite calling card.

The Justice Department said AT&T would use Time Warner's films and movies to force rival pay TV companies to pay «hundreds of millions of dollars more per year for Time Warner's networks» in its lawsuit filed late Monday in federal court in Washington.

The trove of internal e-mails and employee interviews, filed as part of a lawsuit by one of the investors in the securities, offers a fresh glimpse into Wall Street's mortgage machine, which churned out billions of dollars of securities that later imploded.

According to a United States lawsuit filed in July, hundreds of millions of dollars of the absconded funds were moved through bank accounts in Singapore and elsewhere.

A New York City advocacy group for low - income and minority residents filed a lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase Bank last fall for what it says are illegal and exploitative tactics that have cost the two named plaintiffs thousands of dollars in penalty fees it contends they shouldn't have had to pay.

Deutsche Bank to pay $ 6 mln to ex-exec over tradesDeutsche Bank AG agreed to pay former executive Colin Fan roughly $ 6 million to settle a lawsuit he filed over trades that bank lawyers concluded improperly earned him millions of dollars, according to people familiar with the settlement.

They've filed a «wrongful birth» lawsuit for $ 3 million dollars, saying had they known their daughter would be born with disabilities, they would have had an abortion.

The Cook County state's attorney's office filed a civil lawsuit last May that alleged Park District officials improperly obtained their offices, misspent hundreds of thousands of dollars of taxpayers» money, failed to hold any recreational events and violated numerous governmental codes, including the Open Meetings Act.

New York City announced it filed a multibillion dollar lawsuit against five top oil companies, citing their «contributions to global warming,» as it said it would divest fossil fuel investments from its $ 189 billion public pension funds over the next five years.

A lawsuit filed by state AG Eric Schneiderman's office is seeking damages in the millions of dollars against those convicted in the dumping of 40,000 tons of contaminated debris at Roberto Clemente Park in Brentwood, Long Island.

The lawsuit, against BP Plc, Chevron Corp, ConocoPhillips, Exxon Mobil Corp and Royal Dutch Shell Plc, follows similar lawsuits filed last year by San Francisco and other California cities seeking billions of dollars in damages from rising sea levels due to climate impacts.

Disability Rights New York has filed a class action lawsuit against the Dollar General Corporation for failing to make their New York stores accessible to people with mobility disabilities.

«The advocates who were so verbal and litigious during my tenure as a spokeswoman for city government are now so completely in bed with these failing leaders, they don't dare do the same negative press or file lawsuits which cost city taxpayers millions of dollars,» she wrote.

According to a lawsuit filed by state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office against the corporate franchiser that owns Domino's Pizza, the computer system used by franchises across the state systematically undercounted hours worked by employees, shortchanging them hundreds of thousands of dollars.

A lawsuit filed by Melania Trump depicts her heightened profile as a «unique, once - in - a-lifetime opportunity» to make millions of dollars in business, once again raising questions about the relationship between Trump's official role and his family's business interests.

Hundreds of Nassau businesses have filed lawsuits against the county in state court, contending hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines imposed on them by the county assessor are excessive and illegal.

A long term energy plan by the administration of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo that includes a nearly $ 8 billion dollar subsidy to two upstate nuclear power plants is being challenged from both ends of the political spectrum, and a lawsuit has been filed to try to stop the deal.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman filed a lawsuit against two law firms Wednesday, alleging they duped 2,700 homeowners out of hundreds of dollars a month in specious legal services.

The appellate division of New York State Supreme Court on July 28 declined to rule on the allegations in a lawsuit filed by the UFT and a coalition of community groups and parents on Jan. 5, 2010 that the New York City Department of Education was misusing hundreds of millions of dollars in Contract for Excellence funds earmarked for smaller class sizes.

Combine that with huge profit - seeking pharmaceutical corporations, fly - by - night supplement companies that have active lawsuits being filed against them for fraud, millions of dollars in advertising and promotions on TV and the internet targeting vulnerable people, and endless layers of websites full of contradictory information about scientific trials, clinical tests, and potentially bogus health promises, and it's no wonder why people end up confused and frustrated.

A woman filed a 10 million dollar lawsuit against Match.com.

He filed a multi-million dollar lawsuit in federal court in New York last month against Lori Cheek for fraud, trade secret misappropriation, unjust enrichment, and conversion.

A Connecticut school finance lawsuit, filed more than four years ago with the high expectations of 12 towns that were challenging the way the state hands out education dollars, may not even make it to trial.

Stay tuned for developments in the school voucher lawsuit that was just filed by 25 teachers who oppose using taxpayer dollars to fund private education.

The Indiana State Teachers Association has also filed a lawsuit in attempt to block a voucher program that allows families to use some tax dollars toward private school tuition.

Lawyers and states» attorneys general have filed a lawsuit on behalf of the consumers to recover some of the millions of dollars they were illegally forced to overpay once the collusion took place, and Apple agreed last month to settle out of court... IF...

This e-reader was a byproduct of stolen product designs from Spring Design, who filed a lawsuit and settled out of court in 2011 for millions for dollars.

Navient is currently embroiled in legal fight with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau which earlier in the year filed a lawsuit contending the student loan servicer cheated borrowers out of billions of dollars by creating obstacles to paying back loans.

In July 2014, the Animal Legal Defense Fund and three Pennsylvania residents filed a lawsuit against the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, alleging illegal expenditure of state tax dollars on unlawful regulatory activity.

In a lawsuit filed two days later, the duo said Activision had fired them to avoid paying millions of dollars in royalties owed on November's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, which has sold about 20 million units and generated an estimated $ 1.3 billion.

Activision created a «police state,» conducted secret «interrogations» of employees and held $ 54 million dollars hostage as they tried to threaten and cajole the team behind Modern Warfare 2 into making the next Modern Warfare game, according to an amended lawsuit filed in California today and obtained by Kotaku.

A federal lawsuit filed in Manhattan on Friday accuses Lufthansa Cargo and others of destroying a three - million - dollar painting by the American artist Brice Marden during a move last year from Moscow to New York, Reuters reported, according to the New York Times.

California cities San Francisco and Oakland filed separate lawsuits against five oil companies on Wednesday seeking billions of dollars to protect against rising sea levels they blamed on climate change... Marin and San Mateo counties and Imperial Beach, California, in July brought similar public nuisance and failure to warn lawsuits alleging climate change impacts.

We believe that employees have the right to file lawsuits and gain justice, and shouldn't be hindered by the hundreds of thousands of dollars they may have to pay in up - front legal fees.

According to the lawsuit, the Dollar Tree also filed to report the incident to the appropriate city and state health agencies.

Lawsuits filed by patients who took the antipsychotic medication, Risperdal, now number in the thousands, worth potentially billions of dollars in settlements to be paid by drug manufacturer, Johnson and Johnson.

Lawyers from Clark and Steinhorn filed a Five Million Dollar lawsuit for violation of a student's due process rights.

The lawsuit, filed by lawyer Christian C. Thompson, states that the Dollar Tree was negligent in allowing the rat nest to grow on the shelf, and that the manager refused to give a copy of the incident report to the injured victim.

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.

One of the biggest deterrents to filing a lawsuit after a birth injury is the fear that a lawsuit will cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.

If you settle your case before filing a lawsuit, it may only be a few hundred dollars.

Patricia Mincey, 76 years old, has filed a multimillion dollar personal injury lawsuit against both Honda and Takata, for using the faulty Takata airbags in Honda Civics.

Most recently, Ms. Espino MacLean was part of a team that successfully attained a multi-million dollar settlement in an environmental contamination matter before a lawsuit was even filed.

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) has filed a multimillion - dollar lawsuit against Russia, the Trump campaign and Wikileaks over an alleged 12 offences, including conspiracy, fraud and violations of the Wiretap Act.

For fiscal year 2014, NYC budgeted $ 674 million dollars solely for settling lawsuits filed against it and its assorted departments, which amounted to almost 40 percent more than the 2012 FY total, and comes close to costing $ 80 per NYC resident.

A personal injury plaintiff avoided disaster this month when a Montgomery County judge ruled that his last - minute lawsuit was not too late, even though the check to cover the filing and process fees was a dollar short.