Sentences with phrase «egregious acts»

What appear to be the most egregious acts of neglect and cruelty are documented, with relevant footage to back up the claims listed by each instance.

The big 5 in the past have committed quite egregious acts towards their authors and towards retailers and the general reading public, it's true.

These cases involve egregious acts of negligence and misconduct; therefore, our attorneys can also push for maximum compensation by obtaining punitive damage awards.

Policy differences aside, the Civil Rights Division is expected to continue enforcing civil rights laws, such as prosecuting police officers for egregious acts of violence.

Regardless of the alleged protections that government constitutions give the people, the truth is that governments are responsible for the most egregious acts against their own people around the world and throughout history.

This bill is about protecting the largest companies from liability for the most egregious acts against the largest number of individuals — consumers and employees — who have no viable recourse other than class action litigation.

While still far below the multi-million dollar awards in the United States, there are now several decisions of the Ontario Court of Appeal and British Columbia Court of Appeal where the employee has been awarded six - figure punitive damage awards for particularly egregious acts of the employer.

Victoria Burhans, 28, and Chloe Rivera, 25, claim Lopez used his authority over them «to commit egregious acts of sexual harassment» while they were in his employ in 2012 and have filed fresh court papers.

The mayor would present an executive budget that called for closing firehouses or ending HASA funding, or some other egregious act.

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Alternative Bill to Speed up Teacher Dismissals Introduced A year ago, Assemblymember Joan Buchanan cast a deciding vote killing a bill that would have pared back the process for firing teachers and administrators alleged to have done egregious acts against children.

Punitive damages are not given in every personal injury lawsuit, but are usually reserved for extremely egregious acts where the defendant deserves to be punished.

Violation of this Regulation may result in disconnection of the Booth in question without notice until any such egregious act has been corrected.

Sampson then related five particularly egregious acts the judge had identified: (1) misconstruing the record; (2) making frivolous or «stretch» arguments; (3) using slang; (4) criticizing a very recent written opinion; and (5) quoting at length.

Unless someone has committed egregious acts against the testimony of Jesus (which being an Arminian, a Catholic, a Republican, or a suburbanite most certainly is not!)

We have represented clients who have suffered as a result of a variety of egregious acts of police misconduct and negligence, including:

Punitive damages are designed primarily as a way to further punish wrongdoers (defendants) for egregious acts of negligence or misconduct.

«There are so many shades of wrong coming out of this AP story, but the most egregious act committed is the attack on black and brown parents.

The kind of working conditions that lead into this legal danger zone include not just «egregious acts of harassment and bullying» but also chronic stress, excessive demands by managers, and unpaid overtime, wrote the report's author, Dr. Martin Shain of the University of Toronto.

The careful reader will come away knowing the leaders of the seven angelic choirs, the variety of dialects spoken on the streets of 17th - century Amsterdam, the specific pigments that compose a Rembrandt portrait, the type of acid used to destroy Rembrandt's Danaë in the Hermitage (one of the most egregious acts of cultural vandalism in recent memory) and the methods used by early modern surgeons to excise gallbladders and cataracts.

In the most notorious attack, former Allende cabinet member Orlando Letelier and his American assistant, Ronni Moffitt, were killed in a September 1976 car bomb explosion in Washington, D.C — in Dinges's words, «the most egregious act of foreign - inspired terrorism ever committed in the U.S. capital» prior to 9/11.

«We are committed to bringing whoever is responsible for this egregious act to justice,» Cuomo added.

Although she considers bestiality «an egregious act of animal cruelty when it occurs in real life,» she's not so sure it should be off - limits to writers.

«It is not just about the egregious act of dogfighting itself, but the other criminal activity that is affiliated with it.

The fourth floor contains the most glaring omissions of important American painting and sculpture and the Whitney Museum's most egregious acts of self - censorship, suppressions and affronts to American art and to American artists I've ever seen - making this exhibition a ludicrous travesty.

Serious, insidious, and egregious acts of re-writing art history, self - censorship, and suppression currently infects most of our art institutions.

Leaving the venue right after a speech — even to pick up your child from day care — is an egregious act of marketing malpractice.

What happens when you're seeking justice for an egregious act?

Underlying these egregious acts are a few factual observations the judge also related.

The fact that other workers at Klosterman were exposed after this accident shows an egregious act of negligence on the part of the employers, and that negligence is what we fight every day at Altman & Altman LLP.

This appears to be an egregious act: simply making up an internship experience on paper that never existed in real life.

This egregious act can leave lasting physical and emotional scars that must be treated as a matter of urgency.