Sentences with phrase «file lawsuits because»

«We filed the lawsuit because there is clearly an inequitable funding of education in New York state,» said Iannuzzi.

«The Department of Justice in the late 2000s actually filed a lawsuit because of the deathly conditions in his jail.

«We filed the lawsuit because there is clearly an inequitable funding of education in New York State,» said Iannuzzi.

Unfortunately, some of the people who are victimized by negligent drivers end up choosing not to file a lawsuit because they think they can't afford it.

On the other hand, you want to be wary of a firm that never files lawsuits because you want an attorney that you know will aggressively fight for you if your situation warrants it.

In this scenario where you are more than 50 % responsible for causing the accident, you should not file a lawsuit because you will not be able to recover damages in a court of law.

«We filed our lawsuits because we believe that the public has a right to know about the volume and type of national security requests we receive,» they said in a joint statement sent to the E-Commerce Times by Katherine Kerrigan of Microsoft's...

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Forrest ruled that Trump could not avoid a deposition because, as the brand's CEO when the lawsuit was filed, she allegedly has a personal involvement in the lawsuit.

This vague language makes it difficult for women to prove they were paid less than a male counterpart because of their gender and deters many from even filing a lawsuit.»

While the purchase occurred more than two years ago, the controversy arose because eight holding companies controlled by Zuckerberg filed so - called «quiet title» lawsuits against hundreds of locals.

Pao, for example, a former venture capitalist at well - known Silicon Valley firm Kleiner Perkins, lost a lawsuit last year that she filed against her former employer over allegations that it had discriminated against her because of her gender.

The Department of Labor lawsuit, originally filed in 2012, alleged that the company flouted the federal Fair Labor Standards Act because its workers weren't making minimum wage ($ 7.25 an hour) when their bosses required them to take unpaid breaks, according to the Associated Press.

Pao is seeking $ 16 million in damages after claiming she was passed over for a promotion because she is a woman and then fired later in 2012 after she filed a complaint and lawsuit.

«When we file our lawsuit it's going to be because every word, every deposition is in that lawsuit fro a reason,» he said.

Among them: assertions that Hogan filed the lawsuit to hide racist comments made on video, that the woman who Hogan had sex with knew it was being filmed, and that Hogan participated in an FBI investigation and sting because he was being extorted.

This is important, because Kickstarter acknowledges that lawsuits — similar the suit filed by Singh — are within bounds if the project creator fails to deliver a product.

Since the payment became known, Daniels has filed a lawsuit saying that the non-disclosure agreement wasn't valid because Trump never signed it.

We'll get to that in a minute, though, because also on stage was David Carroll, the associate professor at Parsons School of Design in New York who filed a lawsuit against Cambridge to find out what data the company has about him.

Ms. Clifford filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court on Tuesday asserting that the nondisclosure agreement that accompanied the $ 130,000 payment was void because Mr. Trump never signed it.

But last week, Mr. Avenatti filed a lawsuit claiming that the initial agreement — and thus the arbitration requirement — was invalid because Mr. Trump did not personally sign the contract.

Daniels has also filed a lawsuit claiming the nondisclosure agreement she signed is void because Trump never signed it.

It's a key factor in many of the dozen lawsuits filed by San Francisco - based lawyer Christopher Dolan — he argues Uber should be held accountable for the misdeeds of its drivers, while Uber counters it's not to blame because the drivers are independent contractors.

In the lawsuit filed Tuesday, Daniels argues that Trump likely knows about Cohen's ongoing attempts to silence her because the rules of the New York Bar Association, of which Cohen is a member, require that he keep his client informed of his activities.

On Tuesday, Daniels filed a lawsuit, claiming that a $ 130,000 settlement she reached with Trump's longtime lawyer Michael Cohen to keep quiet about the alleged relationship was no longer valid because Trump had not signed the document.

Stormy Daniels filed a civil lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court, contending that the non-disclosure agreement she signed was invalid because Trump never signed it.

Daniels» lawsuit, filed Tuesday in Los Angeles, alleges that the non-disclosure agreement about her relationship with Trump wasn't valid because the then - Republican candidate never signed it.

James Damore, a former Google engineer who was fired in August after posting a memo to an internal Google message board arguing that women may not be equally represented in tech because they are biologically less capable of engineering, has filed a class action lawsuit against the company in Santa Clara Superior Court in Northern California.

Ramirez filed a challenge to his detention in Seattle federal court on Monday, arguing that the government violated his constitutional rights because he had work authorization under the DACA program, his lawsuit said.

D&O, as this type of insurance is more commonly referred to, is specifically designed to protect current and past directors and officers of the company primarily from lawsuits and litigation where the party filing the complaint is claiming they were injured financially because the directors or officers mismanaged the company.

That's significant because it covers a second potential lawsuit Waymo could have filed with regard to software trade secrets.

Three cruise lines — Carnival, Norwegian and Royal Caribbean, as well as a marketing company — have settled a massive class action lawsuit filed because the calls were made without the recipients» permission.

The lawsuit, filed on behalf of the center by the Washington - based Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, argues that the center was ordered to meet «a heightened standard of notice in the zoning process» because of objections by some Murfreesboro residents.

Yvonne Moore not only left Covenant Baptist, where she had worshipped for nearly 40 years: she filed a lawsuit for her weekly tithes because, as she said, «They didn't respect the members enough to listen to us.»

The lawsuit filed last month alleges that the USDA violated the Administrative Procedure Act because the repeated delays under the current administration were issued without any public process and abused USDA's discretion by proposing action to indefinitely delay or kill the rule.

Before Wimbledon, Hewitt lost a week of practice watching girlfriend Kim Clijsters play in Paris, then filed a bizarre $ 1.5 million lawsuit against the ATP for «defamation» because it fined him for not doing a TV interview last year.

Last month, a Chicago couple filed a federal lawsuit accusing the Chicago Park District of violating their rights because it would not allow a reference to Jesus on a commemorative brick in a park.

Did you ever consider that maybe physicians are freaked out because we file too many lawsuits?

The cases were reportedly dismissed because the statute of limitations, which is three years, passed before the lawsuits were filed.

One source insisted he'll be announcing a lawsuit to challenge the health care reform law — or «ObamaCare», as the right perfers to call it — because the AG has declined to join the suit filed by other attorneys general.

The MTA discriminates against people with disabilities because of its widespread lack of elevators and electric lifts in the subway system, rendering it significantly more inaccessible than other cities with large public transportation systems, according to two lawsuits filed yesterday.

Minutes after Florida Gov. Rick Scott signed a historic gun control bill Friday, the National Rifle Association filed a lawsuit alleging that the new law violates the Second Amendment because it raises the sales age for guns from 18 to 21.

Miner, who filed the lawsuit Tuesday, is trying to halt the Inner Harbor project because the Onondaga County Industrial Development Agency gave the developer nearly $ 45 million in tax breaks over her objections.

Because of Cuomo, Central New Yorkers can visit a HUD storefront in downtown Syracuse to talk to an agent, find a home or file a housing discrimination lawsuit.

The family of a 62 - year - old man who died last year in Nassau County jail custody has filed a $ 60 million federal lawsuit against the county and the facility's former medical provider, claiming the inmate died because he was denied proper care.

But the beauty of that was that because the referendum had been passed, good government groups in Florida were able to file a lawsuit, and in the discovery process unearthed a trove of emails showing exactly what had happened.

«During the 60s and 70s and 80s there was a rash of child sex abuse throughout America that institutions turned a blind eye to and now you have adults who are now coming to terms with this abuse but they have no recourse in the court system, either through criminal or civil penalties because their time to file a lawsuit has expired,» he said.

The three governors said in the coming days they'll work out where they'll file the lawsuit but they expect it would be in one of their states because they're affected the most.

Donovan stressed that he would not join the lawsuit already filed by a number of attorneys general across the nation — an action he deemed «political» because 14 of the 15 people who brought the suit are gunning for higher office.

The Cayuga Nation said it does not plan to file a lawsuit against the state yet because all the details are the agreement have not been revealed, but added that «the nation is prepared to pursue all legal means to challenge and set aside the agreement» if it interferes with the Cayugas» rights.

He said the lawsuit filed last year by Schneiderman was speculative, because the commission hasn't adopted final regulations yet.