Sentences with phrase «egregious acts of»

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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 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.

Not exact matches

Indeed, the sale of high - commission annuities has been flagged as one of the more egregious ways that financial advisors fail to act in their clients» best interests.

That purported experts on mental illness should enable the acting - out of a cultural delusion is egregious enough.

We've isolated and condemned homosexuality as an especially egregious sin because 1) it's a sexual thing (and we're obsessed with sex), 2) it's relatively easy to identify and name, (unlike gossip and materialism and greed, which are condemned more often in the Bible and are more pervasive in our culture), and 3) it is «other,» (when you're straight, and in no danger of committing homosexual acts yourself, it's easy to call it an abomination because it's easier to remove specks from others people's eyes.)

The Little Sisters are not engaged in a political stunt but in an act of moral resistance to the egregious violation of religious freedom.

These gay haters were cut from the same pattern as were those who conducted The Inquisition and the egregious, low down acts from the Fifties with their penchant for mistreating Blacks, as were those who used the Bible to make slaves out of them.

I urge you to act administratively and provide immediate relief from certain egregious aspects of the standards, particularly in regards to the rapidly approaching sodium limits and the dairy and whole grain requirements,..

If people truly believe the narrative that «tough choices have to be made» they are ready to accept the kinds of egregious policies we are witnessing with the Welfare Reform Act 2012, and continued privatisations of public services.

«Even where New York Courts have suspended attorneys for substantial periods of time, those cases involve more egregious and ongoing acts of misconduct, as opposed to Mr. Grimm's isolated and singular conviction,» his attorney Annette Hasapidis said in the Manhattan federal court filing from earlier this month.

«To us as a party, the most egregious of the faux pas committed by INEC is asking the APC to lawfully nominate a candidate for the supplementary governorship election without a valid and legally cognizable primary election of the party conducted within the mandatory timeliness specified by the electoral act.

The statement signed by its Ranking Member on Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, further said «The loud silence of Ghana's Foreign Minister, Ms. Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey and the Government led by President Akufo - Addo especially in the face of some reprehensible support from sections of the NPP led by its Acting Chairman Freddie Blay, is most troubling as it has the tendency to convey a tacit approval of the egregious sins of their chief diplomat in South Africa.»

Thus far, the loud silence of Ghana's Foreign Minister, Hon.. Ms. Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey and the Government led by President Akufo - Addo especially in the face of some reprehensible support from sections of the NPP led by its Acting Chairman Freddie Blay is most troubling as it has the tendency to convey a tacit approval of the egregious sins of their chief diplomat in South Africa.

All of the bombast and monotony lead to a third act battle that is egregious in its crumminess.

Now consider that during the debate over the No Child Left Behind Act, the National Conference of State Legislatures sent members of Congress a letter criticizing the testing requirements as «an egregious example of a top - down, one - size - fits - all federal reform.»

Yes, teachers are evaluated — that's another form of accountability — but it's hard to take this form seriously when 97 percent of New York City educators are considered effective or highly effective, as reported on Monday, and life - long job security, barring some egregious act, is guaranteed after four years.

That's why Duncan announced in June that he was giving the 37 states plus the District of Columbia, which had won federal waivers from the most egregious mandates of the No Child Left Behind Act, an extra year to implement teacher evaluations linked to new assessments that are supposed to be aligned to the new Common Core State Standards.

One of the most egregious areas he wielded his pen was in expanding federal control over wilderness areas with use of the «Antiquities Act.»

Sometimes, in the most egregious instances, they act as the mindless lap dogs of powerful rulers.

The changes have the potential to affect not just the employers committing the most egregious violations of the Act but those who commit less serious contraventions as well.

But the framing of the claim just seems odd to me because it seems much more egregious to act without instructions than to, say, act with instructions which were based on improper disclosure.

Section 5 (2)(b) of the PPPA allowed the court to award punitive or exemplary damages in particularly egregious circumstances where the plaintiff acted in bad faith.

The egregious wrongdoings in this case required specific attention to the Police Act that the general tone of the Evidence Act did not provide for (at para 40).

Economic damages are a loss of present and future wages, medical care, therapeutic treatments, disability, lost wages, and punitive damages if the negligent act was egregious.

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.

However, it occurs to me that if, as has been hinted today by the Prime Minister, section 53 (2) of the Freedom of Information Act were redrafted so as to attempt to confer wide powers of Ministerial override of judicial decisions, such a provision might plausibly be considered to fall into that category — if it exists at all — of legislation so constitutionally egregious as to test the courts» commitment to the absolute supremacy of Parliament.

He then went further, stating that there was «no reason» to suppose it would do anything other than act as an incentive to avoid egregious errors and eliminate the making of grievous mistakes [71].

It makes no attempt to address the many egregious defects in the protection afforded to victims; both within these Motor Insurers» Bureau (MIB) agreements as well as within Part VI of the Road Traffic Act 1988 and the European Communities (Rights against Insurers) Regulations 2002 (SI 2002/3061).

«If the aforementioned were not sufficiently egregious examples of the kinds of locations covered by this overly - broad legislation, pursuant to subsection (c) of the definition of «public work» in section 1 of the Public Works Protection Act, R.S.O. 1990, CHAPTER P. 55 (hereinafter «PWPA»), a public work includes «any other building, place or work designated a public work by the Lieutenant Governor in Council.»

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

Just because one can find a more egregious offender does not exonerate the bad acts of another.

Samuels has been fighting the battle against dangerously broad patents for some time now, recently traveling to DC to support passage of the SHIELD Act (Saving High - tech Innovators from Egregious Legal Disputes), a congressional bill that would impose heavy fines against so - called patent trolls.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Coalition for Patent Fairness (CPF) is pleased to support HR 845, the bipartisan SHIELD Act («Saving High Tech Innovators from Egregious Legal Disputes Act of 2013»), sponsored by Congressmen Peter DeFazio and Jason Chaffetz.

Rep. Peter DeFazio, along with Rep. Jason Chaffetz, has re-introduced the SHIELD Act (the backronym stands for Saving High - Tech Innovators from Egregious Legal Disputes) in the House of Representatives.

In the days since Reps. Peter DeFazio and Jason Chaffetz introduced their patent - troll - smashing SHIELD Act (Saving High - tech Innovators from Egregious Legal Disputes), there's been a steady increase in attention and momentum, both in the press and among the public at large, to the issue of vexatious patent lawsuits.

The SHIELD Act, or the Saving High - Tech Innovators from Egregious Legal Disputes Act (H.R. 845), is designed to help the innocent victims of patent trolls by creating a «fee shifting» system.

Three of the most high profile proposals are: (1) the Saving High - tech Innovators from Egregious Legal Disputes (SHILED) Act «forces patent trolls to financial responsibility for frivolous lawsuits»; (2) the Patent Quality Improvement Act expands the AIA by allowing more businesses to be covered under the transitional program for business method patents; and (3) the End Anonymous Patent Act, which requires the owner of patents to register with the UPSTO.

The Supreme Court did not define what «egregious fault» means other than to say it is something more than ordinary fault, defining it loosely as a term of art that requires not simply more, or even more public acts of marital indiscretion, but acts that by their very nature, are different in kind than ordinary fault that breaks up a marriage.

However, asking a seller if there's «anything» within the structure that «could» negatively effect a buyers» decision may be even a worse solution, anything and could are in my opinion too broad... the precedent case that's being examined says the Realtor has an obilgation to go beyond that stated by the seller... therefore what the seller has said or signed that they said is of little relevance in the event of a problem... her most egregious act was not invoving a home inspector... people... find a couple inspectors that you yourself find to be valuable, recommend them to your buyers and involve yourself, go to the inspections with your buyers and see firsthand what condition the property is in.

«Generally we absolve the licensee of culpability if the licensee is acting in accordance with an attorney's instructions, but the violations alleged in this complaint were too egregious for this to be permitted.»

The Act also criminalizes deception and other egregious tactics, such as falsifying header information, hacking, sending large numbers of commercial e-mail, or falsifying registration.

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