Sentences with phrase «dollar lawsuit on»

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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 move, which Denton confirmed on Monday via Twitter, will temporarily prevent Hulk Hogan, the professional wrestler whose real name is Terry Bollea, from collecting millions of dollars in damages he was awarded from Denton in an invasion - of - privacy lawsuit in May.

The largest U.S. student loan servicer, Navient (navi), cheated borrowers out of billions of dollars, often by deceiving them about repayment options and their legal rights, the U.S. consumer financial watchdog said on Wednesday as it announced a lawsuit against the company.

Thiel, who cofounded PayPal and sits on Facebook's board of directors, provided millions of dollars for Hogan's lawsuit and is apparently funding other cases.

«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.

After JPMorgan recently resisted a settlement with the nation's commodities trading regulator, the people briefed on the matter said, the agency began drafting a lawsuit connected to the bank's multibillion - dollar «London whale» trading loss last year.

The attack has likely sharply lowered the price Avid Life could muster in any sale of assets, assuming it could find a buyer willing to take on a company facing several multi-million dollars lawsuits and the challenge of rebuilding a computer network that has been so badly infiltrated.

Shervin Pishevar, one of Kalanick's closest allies and a former board observer at the company, previously had promised a lawsuit for tens of billions of dollars should the proposal on voting changes be approved.

I do not believe and I can guarantee you that A) I've NEVER molested a child or person... unlike the Priests and other members of the cloth as you see lawsuits on an almost daily basis B) Help my fellow man with no questions asked or expectation of return C) Bilk millions of dollars from people who have so little all in the name of a God, then buy lavish homes and cars like they're owed it.

The inappropriate conduct of many priests, the emotional stress on the victims and the resultant billion dollars in lawsuits.

Schneiderman's critics accuse him of wasting taxpayer dollars on publicly funded lawsuits and investigations for political purposes.

Sad really, but these are the same woman who failed to mount a real effort at holding a Woman's right day in NNY, that put men o notice that sexual harassment in the work place would not be tolerated and we in Watertown and Jefferson County are still sitting on that 50 million dollar lawsuit by a Deputy Officer who was clearly wronged in the workplace.

The company Assemblyman Bill Nojay used to be paid for campaign work for Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren's 2013 primary race and a second firm he co-owned that's embroiled in a multimillion - dollar lawsuit, were not listed on his annual financial disclosure forms.

But the lawsuit said that debt was exaggerated by hundreds of millions of dollars in loans picked up by other hospitals, and dumped on St. Vincent's when it merged with the other institutions.

To raise revenues, Cuomo proposed requiring extending sales tax collections on online sales, imposing a surcharge on certain health insurers who received a windfall from federal tax cuts, tapping hundreds of millions of dollars in proceeds from lawsuit settlements and raising taxes «e-cigarettes» and taxing opioids (2 cents per milligram prescribed to go to anti-addiction programs).

[Cuomo said the latest lawsuit challenging the way New York allocates education dollars is flawed because the state spends more money per pupil — on average — than any other state and doesn't get top results.]

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.

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.

«It is just more of the same from someone who is attempting to distract from the fact that he is accused of racism and has already spent hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars on failed lawsuits.»

In August, we reported on the lawsuit brought by the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), against the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles, in an effort to stop USC's alleged attempt to bring a multimillion - dollar Alzheimer's disease research project along with its new recruit, neuroscientist Paul Aisen, from UCSD to USC.

I am about to walk into court as an expert witness on a billion - dollar medical patent lawsuit.

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 crowd of protesters gathered on the sidewalk outside a government building in Lower Manhattan last June, collectively demanding that the city and state reach an agreement on how to pump billions of new dollars into New York City schools - and settle its contentious, decade - long school adequacy lawsuit.

«It's time for the union to stop obstructing and wasting taxpayer dollars so we can focus on serving our students and improving our education system, instead of wasting precious time and resources on yet another baseless lawsuit,» she said.

State Defunds Program to Fix «Slum» Schools Eight years after California settled a landmark lawsuit promising hundreds of millions of dollars to repair shoddy school facilities, more than 700 schools still are waiting for their share of funds as students take classes on dilapidated campuses with health and safety hazards.

Over the last two years the HPSD has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars of taxpayer money on lawsuits trying to stop the popular charter school from expanding to 8

Over the last two years the HPSD has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars of taxpayer money on lawsuits trying to stop the popular charter school from expanding to 8th grade from a K - 6 school.

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...

Creative is also well known for winning a milestone 100 million dollar lawsuit against Apple, yet it is Apple that went on to become the market leader for personal MP3 players due to clever marketing and focus on consumer - centric design.

The credit reporting agency, Transunion settled on a class action lawsuit by setting aside 75 million dollars nearly 2 years ago.

Should a tenant's guest slip and fall on your staircase, you could be subject to a high dollar lawsuit.

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.

Part of what's going on is that there are major lawsuits flying over DLTR's acquisition of Family Dollar.

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.

Also in the episode of The Reboot with Rio Pesino, a Los Angeles - based production company dismisses its lawsuit against Nintendo, another Playstation Phone rumor hits the web and a new survey says the average gamer spends 30,000 dollars on video games.

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.

Even though the «Total Recall» star says «it's absolutely irresponsible to know that your product is killing people and not have a warning label on it,» Schwarzenegger isn't entirely certain a lawsuit is going to bring in billions of dollars in damage money.

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.

Our work helps scientists focus on their research instead of frivolous lawsuits and avoid hundreds of thousands of dollars of legal fees.

A recent thread in the right - wing blogosphere has it that law firm Perkins Coie has billed Obama's lobbying organization more than a million dollars while trying to suppress lawsuits over Obama's eligibility to be president, an issue that has long been considered settled by the courts but continues to simmer on the Internet.

«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.

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.

Most adults have probably heard somewhere along the way that «a lady spilled McDonald's coffee on her own lap and then got millions of dollars from McDonald's in a lawsuit because the coffee was hot and burned her.»

Participated in obtaining a summary judgment in a multi-million dollar federal court employment discrimination lawsuit on behalf of a Fortune 500 company

Participated in obtaining a summary judgment in a multi-million dollar federal court breach of contract lawsuit on behalf of a Fortune 500 company

Participated in obtaining a summary judgment in a multi-million dollar federal court discrimination lawsuit on behalf of a Fortune 500 company

On June 26, 2012, the Ontario Court of Appeal ruled that 2 major lawsuits against CIBC and Scotiabank, alleging that employees were denied hundreds of millions of dollars worth of overtime pay, may proceed as class actions.

Participated in obtaining a summary judgment for a hospital affiliated with a national health system in a physician's multimillion dollar federal court discrimination lawsuit, and obtaining an affirmance on appeal before the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals

Toronto lawyer launches multi-million dollar class action lawsuit on behalf of injured workers against WSIB, Toronto Star