Sentences with phrase «filing of a law suit»

Often, cases can be resolved informally prior to the filing of a law suit or before costly litigation expenses are incurred.

We will explore the key components of the pretrial process, beginning with the filing of a law suit.

Not exact matches

Local businessman Peter Landau will be subjected to more court action after China - controlled Nkwe Platinum filed a $ 2.5 million law suit in the Supreme Court of Western Australia.

He filed suit on behalf of Oklahoma to block a California law requiring humane treatment of poultry.

Says Frank Gorman, an attorney with the FTC,» [The FTC] houses a database of scams that helps law enforcement officials determine how widespread a particular scam may be and whether or not the FTC or other agency will file suit.»

California Governor Jerry Brown announced the suit's filing in Sacramento, accusing the EPA of «breaking the law» and putting children at risk by boosting asthma - inducing tailpipe emissions.

James Blumstein, a professor of law and the director of the Vanderbilt Health Policy Center, explains that if Brown had standing when she filed suit — originally — that's what matters most, since the NFIB, which is an institutional litigant, has members who are in similar circumstances as Brown.

Earlier this month, Minneapolis - based law firm Nichols Kaster filed suits against American Century's $ 600 million plan and the $ 1.3 billion plan at Fujitsu Technology and Business of America, Inc..

On July 8, the public got its first view into how the U.S. Department of Labor will defend its fiduciary rule when it filed a cross motion for summary judgment, asking the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to dismiss a law suit brought by the National Association for Fixed Annuities.

In 2010, the Metzger Law Group filed suit against ready - to - drink coffee companies to require them to give consumers cancer hazard warnings regarding acrylamide in coffee or to reduce the acrylamide content of their coffee products to safe levels.

But Mercer Bullard, professor of law at the University of Mississippi Law School and founder of Fund Democracy, an advocacy group for mutual fund shareholders, told ThinkAdvisor on Thursday that «the plaintiffs have hurt their cause by delaying» filing a suit until now.&raqlaw at the University of Mississippi Law School and founder of Fund Democracy, an advocacy group for mutual fund shareholders, told ThinkAdvisor on Thursday that «the plaintiffs have hurt their cause by delaying» filing a suit until now.&raqLaw School and founder of Fund Democracy, an advocacy group for mutual fund shareholders, told ThinkAdvisor on Thursday that «the plaintiffs have hurt their cause by delaying» filing a suit until now.»

Ms. Pao, a graduate of Princeton University, Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School, is married to Alphonse Fletcher Jr., a prominent Wall Street investor who has filed discrimination suits in the past.

If it is about the inclusion of every one, why are the atheists filing the law suit?

The suit was filed Wednesday in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia for the college by the Becket Fund, the same law firm that is representing multiple lawsuits against the HHS policy.

No one is forcing you to work for a Catholic Hospital, just as the Islamic Students are filing a law suit against a Catholic University because of their religious images, then why would you go there if your Islamic?

While MLS commissioner Doug Logan denied Clemetson's allegations, the league's handling of Caligiuri underlined flaws in the system, which in February prompted 10 players to file a class - action suit against MLS, claiming that the league's restraints on players violated antitrust laws.

Last summer, his law firm represented First American Bank of Buffalo Grove in a nuisance suit filed against car dealer Joseph Perillo, who leased vacant property he owned near the bank to a pig farmer.

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Under current law, patients who are either misdiagnosed or somehow injured during a medical procedure must file suit within 15 months of the incident — in other words, 15 months from the date the malpractice actually occurred.

The Brennan Center, alongside a coalition of law firms, state lawmakers and others on Tuesday announced they had filed a suit against the Board of Elections to end the practice of a network of limited liability companies contributing endless cash to political candidates.

Last month, a State Appellate Court ruled in favor of two home healthcare workers who filed suit claiming the 13 - hour rule violated New York State's minimum wage laws, since they were made available to work 24 - hours a day by being live - in home health workers.

Tollner said if the Child Victims Act becomes law, he will take advantage of the one - year window of opportunity to file a civil suit.

As she explained, the previous law only allowed a suit to be filed within three years from the occurrence of an injury caused by exposure to a contaminant.

The basis of the Republican suit was a Freedom of Information Law request the two Assembly members filed at the end of last month, seeking all documentation affiliated with the program.

The measure, known as Laverne's Law, extends the amount of time a suit can be filed up from 2-1/2 to 7 years from when the plaintiff has learned of a diagnosis instead of when the cause of the illness occurred.

The Empire Center, an offshoot of the Manhattan Institute, filed suit last year when the TRS refused its Freedom of Information Law request for the data.

The suit, being filed on behalf of CCOP and At - Risk Community Services, will ask the court to impose an independent monitor for NYCHA for what Walden deemed «systemic violations of law» surrounding lead paint monitoring and remediation, providing heat and hot water, providing economic opportunities for tenants and consulting them on policies that affect them.

Opponents of Glen Cove's huge waterfront redevelopment have filed suit to delay the proposal, alleging the city planning board broke state law by not requiring new environmental studies of what had primarily been industrial land.

The Senate Republican lawmakers who filed suit challenging the 2010 law based on how to count prisoners for purposes of redistricting plan to end their legal challenge, two sources familiar with the plan said this afternoon.

Erie County Sheriff Timothy Howard says he won't enforce the SAFE Act, and was one of four sheriffs to file an amicus brief to a suit challenging the new law.

Silver has to RESIGN and Vito Lopez Tanic needs to tell his side of the story and I am sure if they file a law suit he may get the chance.

No fewer than five police vans, scores of armed policemen and operatives of the Department of State Services were deplored in the Kwara State High Court in Ilorin on Thursday to forestall the breakdown of law and order as the libel suit filed by the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, against an online medium, SaharaReporters, and its publisher, Omoyele Sowore, came up for hearing.

On November 26, 2008, independent U.S House candidate Faye Coffield filed suit in U.S. District Court in Georgia, asking that the Georgia ballot access law for independent candidates for U.S. House of Representatives be declared unconstitutional

Although some members of the party have already sued the rank and file of the party for the suspension, Afoko is yet to file his law suit challenging the NEC's decision.

An environmental law firm has filed a class - action suit against two companies connected with the water contamination in the Rensselaer County village of Hoosick Falls.

The Green Party of Oklahoma will be filing suit in February against the state of Oklahoma, to challenge the state's ultra-restrictive ballot access laws.

In 2009, the group Stray from the Heart filed suit accusing the city of violating the law.

In a suit filed Wednesday night, the plaintiffs are seeking a declaration that the law is unconstitutional and an injunction prohibiting enforcement of the provisions by the attorney's general's office and the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, which are the defendants in the case.

The resistors» latest gambit is a federal law suit (Goldstein v. Pataki) filed on October 26th in the Eastern District, charging that the use of eminent domain on behalf of Forest City Ratner and Atlantic Yards is unconstitutional.

Scientists James Sherley and Theresa Deisher filed their suit 2 years ago, arguing that the National Institutes of Health (NIH's) policy easing Bush - era restrictions on research using hESCs violated a law banning federally funded research that destroys embryos.

The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Hartford on Aug. 22, argues that federal funding to Connecticut falls far short of what is needed to meet the law's testing and accountability requirements, a violation of the U.S. Constitution and provisions in the nearly 4 - year - old statute itself.

A bill that requires Tennessee's public schools to set aside one minute at the beginning of the school day for «meditation, or prayer, or personal beliefs» has been signed into law by Gov. Lamar Alexander, but the American Civil Liberties Union (aclu) of Tennessee intends to file suit shortly on the grounds that the law is in violation of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

A group representing Hispanic parents filed suit in federal district court in Boston last week, charging Massachusetts officials with failure to comply with federal laws protecting the rights of the state's 14,000 Hispanic students of limited English proficiency.

This past July, the D.C. Association of Chartered Public Schools filed suit in federal district court claiming that the District of Columbia has been underfunding charter schools in violation of the U.S. Constitution and federal law.

The suit, filed on behalf of Beatriz Vergara, a Los Angeles high school student, and eight other public school students, claims that the law protects poor - performing teachers assigned to working with low - income, minority children.

The suit, filed in Albany in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York, cites a ruling in that jurisdiction earlier this year that the disclosure provisions of the state's pioneering «truth - in - testing» law are in direct conflict with federal copyright law.

The College Board, the Educational Testing Service, and other testing agencies last week filed a suit asking a federal court to allow them to offer some of their examinations in New York State without disclosing the questions and answers, as state law currently requires.

The Minnesota Federation of Teachers is expected to file suit this month in federal court challenging the constitutionality of the law — called the «Postsecondary Enrollment Options Act» — because it permits state payments to church - related colleges.

The alliance and several families also filed as an intervenor in the state court suit challenging the constitutionality of the voucher law.

«Every student deserves a great public education, yet California's education laws make this impossible,» said David Welch, whose nonprofit, Students Matter, filed the suit on behalf of the students.