Sentences with phrase «economic harm»

It also noted uncertainty around whether creeping acquisitions actually substantially lessen competition and cause economic harm in practice.

It need not, however, be set so high that it would cause undue economic harm in the short - run.

Selling old patents brings universities little revenue but risks contributing to the wider economic harm from patent trolling.

Special damages are typically associated with specific economic harm, including lost wages due to missing work, damage to one's vehicle or property, and medical costs.

Not only does the lack of discretion to disclose impending economic harm place unnecessary emotional strain on the lawyer, but it goes against the very nature of the legal profession by enabling crime.

The smaller your organization, the more vulnerable it is to sustaining irreversible economic harm.

Instead, said the court, public policy could impose a duty on a person who causes economic harm to another.

Second, the claims of economic harm associated with camcorded movies have been grossly exaggerated.

There are a few exceptions: If you're in the highest paid 10 percent of wage earners at your company and your manager can show that your absence would cause substantial economic harm to the organization, you can be denied «restoration,» which is the guarantee that you can return to the same or an equivalent job.

Ogden provided evidence that she saw the misrepresentations, relied on them substantially in purchasing Bumble Bee products, and suffered economic harm as a result.

Unintimidated by the most powerful corporate entities, when businesses suffer economic harm because of corporate negligence, fraud, or other misconduct, we fight to make them whole.

The possibility exists for the purchaser to apply to the court to enforce the covenant (if one exists) so as to stop the vendor from inflicting economic harm on the purchaser.

That is, when disputes veer from the conventional channels for sorting out disputes — and threaten to become the source of serious economic harm for both economies.

Also, in general, notwithstanding a historical concept of «negligence per se» that allows an award of damages without proof of actual harm to reputation causing economic harm for certain kinds of statements, U.S. Constitutional law now generally requires proof of actual damages in a suit for defamation against a media defendant.

Moreover, he claims that publishers would not suffer significant economic harm if all copying permitted under Access Copyright licenses or model licenses were fair dealings and no educational institution, whether elementary, secondary, or post-secondary, paid a penny for all such uses.

The comptroller's office defines BDS as «actions that are intended to penalize, inflict economic harm on, or limit commercial relations with the State of Israel; this includes deliberate efforts to weaken the economy of Israel.»

The blend wall problem could constrain domestic fuel supply and result in severe economic harm, according to a study by NERA Economic Consulting.

Entities that produce or distribute unsafe food may be held liable for the physical and economic harm associated with food poisoning.

«The associations urge President Trump to avoid any decision which would do harm to so many downstream steel manufacturing companies and other steel consumers, our employees, and our customers, with little or no additional protection to the basic steel industry, while at the same time causing great economic harm to numerous other sectors of the US economy.»

BY INFLICTING FURTHER ECONOMIC HARM ON THE WORLD»S POOREST PEOPLE, CLIMATE CHANGE IS ALSO INCREASING THE RISK OF ARMED CONFLICT by Guy Quinlan

People injured in a Michigan auto accident have up to 3 years after the crash to file a third - party lawsuit, for pain and suffering from accident injuries or excess economic harms.

For one, the non-linear relationship between warming and economic harm means that the most extreme damages would occur in very high - sensitivity cases (as Harvard economist Marty Weitzman puts it, «the sting is in the long tail» of climate sensitivity).

Some of those schools, however, have been accused of creating as much economic harm as help: students have reported falling deep into debt to pay for classes that they said had failed to deliver what they had promised.

A number of these don't work or study, opening them to the criticism that they are freeloaders; or perhaps worse, that their «emotionally comfortable» living situation could cause lasting economic harm.

APHIS has ignored the potential economic harm, concluding that GE sensitivity was too speculative while blaming farmers and the organic industry for its failure to provide evidence of consumer resistance and consequent economic loss.

Beyond the food safety vulnerabilities, food fraud creates tremendous economic harm and undermines peoples» trust in the food supply chain, extending to companies, the food industry and even public institutions.

Though the executive, Larry Davis, may have misled the owners of the property — the Port Authority of New York — about the true level of subcontract work given to minorities and women business owners, «the evidence was not sufficient for a rational jury to find that the alleged misrepresentations went to an essential element of the contract or that they exposed the Port Authority to potential or actual economic harm,» Preska wrote.

The Taxpayer Advocate Service (TAS) was created to assist qualifying taxpayers who have experienced a delay of more than thirty days of resolving their tax issue, or have not received a response to the problem by the date that was promised by the IRS, and are experiencing economic harm from those delays.

«Beyond the terrible economic harm to citizens around the world, sellers of binary options are causing increasing, accelerating ruinous damage to Israel and are inflaming anti-Semitism and anti-Israel feeling,» commented Israel Securities Authority Chairman Shmuel Hauser after the bill was advanced.

Among other issues, the term — as it is defined now — leads not only to the obligation to help countries facing climatic risks, but also those facing economic harms from a premature abandonment of fossil fuels (language demanded, no surprise, by Saudi Arabia).

The study, Vulnerability and Adaptation of US Shellfisheries to Ocean Acidification, breaks new ground by identifying the communities along our nation's shores that will most likely suffer long - term economic harm from ocean acidification, revealing a mosaic of vulnerability to ocean acidification nationwide.

But because the U.S. is now at that ultimate peak, there's greater uncertainty in the study's calculations than in places like India, Pakistan, Vietnam, Nigeria and Venezuela where it's already hot and there's more certainty about dramatic economic harm, Hsiang said.

For example, the United States can tolerate some local - content requirements in India's solar initiative without suffering real economic harm.

Actually, the speaker is referring to an action by the NY Attorney General demanding certain companies put disclosures in their investment materials about the future economic harms from global warming.

An ethanol mandate that causes little economic harm when unemployment rates are low, corn production is high, and China's demand for U.S. corn imports is low could inflict severe harm when the opposite conditions obtain — as they do today.

«Severe» economic harm typically results from a combination of factors, not one single cause.

In addition, the Clinton plan will turn the RFS into a California - style Low Carbon Fuel Standard, resulting in even more economic harm.

Their objective was to build on the economic mechanisms created by the Kyoto Protocol in order to achieve climate objectives with minimal economic harm.

The court will often award special damages for loss of earnings, medical expenses, property damage, and other measureable economic harms caused by the defendant's actions.

Yesterday (12 October) barrister Jolyon Maugham announced that his Good Law Project was seeking donors towards a judicial review application if the government refused to publish information and reports comparing the predicted economic harm of Brexit with the predicted economic benefits of alternative free trade agreements.

A copyright notice threatens economic harm, while the strategy behind the black art of the curse is to attack the infringer's mind.

Class action law suits can also be used to hold defendants to account in cases where large numbers of people are negatively affected, but no single individual has suffered enough economic harm to make it worthwhile taking their case to court.