Sentences with phrase «face years of litigation»

Most significantly, in June the Environmental Protection Agency proposed new regulations to limit carbon emissions from power plants; if these regulations go into effect — they're expected to face years of litigation — they will cut power plant emissions 30 percent by 2030.

Not exact matches

They face a May 7 deadline to show the court their work — and to possibly put an end to seven years of litigation.

«Pursuing creative but untested notions of demand as a demand resource in upcoming capacity market auctions and thus facing the prospect of several years of uncertain administrative and judicial litigation serves to undermine completely the very purpose of the capacity market — namely, to provide a certain stream of forward revenues to assist capital formation for resource investment.»

You don't have to get a corridor, and then go through years of litigation, and so no one has really faced up to it.

That litigation may have softened in recent months is evident on another front in the Fulbright survey: only 22 % of in - house counsel said they expect to see the number of legal disputes their companies face increase over the next 12 months; a year ago, 33 % said they were anticipating a rise in lawsuits involving their company.

Moreover, chemical manufacturers and processors who attest to the safety of products once labeled safe but since found to be unsafe could face litigation arising from claims based on submissions made years, or even decades, prior to any known potential for harm.

Many of the opposing counsel I have faced during 9 + years of litigation have told me I am stupid, my client is lying and I am gullible for believing him, my claims are frivolous, and I should feel lucky if they let me voluntarily dismiss my own lawsuit with prejudice.

Unlike the comprehensive Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement (IRSSA), which was implemented by the government in September 2007 and remains the largest class action settlement in Canadian history, Sixties Scoop lawsuits remain stuck in the deathly pipeline of legal litigation facing strong governmental resistance (Ontario's Sixties Scoop is no exception as the case was bitterly fought and litigated for eight years).

In the same survey, 72 % of respondents believed that UK directors are facing more criminal liability than five years ago, and 71 % believed that the influence of US regulation had led to an increase in litigation in the UK.

I do not want my department and the legal aid market to face months if not years of continuing uncertainty, and expensive litigation, while it is heard».

After a few years in civil litigation and property law, Mike became a Deputy District Attorney in Fresno, where he saw the effects of prosecutorial abuse on people who were trying to recover in the face of serious charges.

When faced with a potential product recall or defective product claim, the lawyers at Gilbertson Davis can utilize our years of litigation experience in a variety of industries to protect your interests.

Less than a year later, faced with criticism from the Bar and a flood of «satellite litigation», the Court of Appeal consolidated three appeals and called on the Law Society and Bar Council to intervene as friends of the Court.

The Arbitration Law is also expected to modernise the UAE's arbitration regime and bring it more in line with international best practice; currently, there are just 16 provisions governing arbitration in the UAE, set out in Articles 203 to 218 of the CPL.. These are broadly drafted and a key concern for arbitrating parties has been the wide scope for challenges permitted (or at least not expressly prohibited) under the CPL; it is not uncommon for parties to face several months (if not years) of litigation in order to enforce arbitral awards in the UAE.

«Given all the distrust that we heard about for four - and - a half years at the law society in this area, we've taken some relatively moderate steps and to run away from that a year later in the face of this backlash would be very damaging to the law society,» said Anand, a senior civil litigation, administrative and human rights lawyers at WeirFoulds LLP.