Sentences with phrase «first filed suit»

The EEOC first filed suit against Freeman in October 2009, saying Freeman had rejected applicants because of credit or criminal backgrounds.

Oracle first filed suit in 2010, accusing Google of infringing the copyright of its Java APIs — application programming interfaces — a way for computer software applications to interact with each other.

«It is important that it not be displayed to the exclusion of everyone else,» said David Silverman, president of the American Atheists, which first filed suit in July 2011.

For example, I agree with this principle: «It is important that it not be displayed to the exclusion of everyone else,» said David Silverman, president of the American Atheists, which first filed suit in July 2011.

What part of «It is important that it not be displayed to the exclusion of everyone else,» said David Silverman, president of the American Atheists, which first filed suit in July 2011.

The plaintiffs, who first filed suit six years ago, are seeking $ 36 million in damages.

They must first file a suit in court to obtain a garnishing order.

Not exact matches

In 2015, New York - based competitor Bounce Exchange filed a suit against Yieldify in a New York federal court, accusing it of copying its code and infringing its patents, in a case that first came to light earlier this year in a report from The Financial Times.

The first German consumer to file a lawsuit against VW has been identified; and many are sure to follow on the continent and in the U.S. West Virginia's attorney - general also has filed suit against VW on behalf of consumers in that state who were allegedly deceived.

The lawsuit, first reported by the New York Times, arrives in the same month that porn star Stormy Daniels filed her own suit to void a hush deal she signed before the election, also over an alleged tryst with Trump.

The suit, filed last month, claims that Steinberg was one of Eaze's first investors back in 2014, but that he sought to shop shares in the privately held company last year.

The nine plaintiffs in the first suit, filed June 2 in the Texas district, are SIFMA, the Financial Services Institute (FSI), the Financial Services Roundtable, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Insured Retirement Institute (IRI) and four Texas groups.

Former DOL solicitor Scalia, who's now a partner in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher's Washington office, represents the nine plaintiffs in the first suit, filed June 2 in the Texas district.

The nine plaintiffs in the first suit, filed June 2 in the Texas district, include the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, the Financial Services Institute, the Financial Services Roundtable, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Insured Retirement Institute and four Texas groups, including the Texas Association of Business.

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.

When news broke in 2015 of Volkswagen's massive diesel emissions - cheating scandal, Hagens Berman was the first firm in the nation to file suit against the automaker for its egregious fraud, going on to represent thousands of owners in litigation and take a leading role on the Plaintiffs» Steering Committee that would finalize a $ 14.7 billion, record - breaking settlement for owners.

In 2017, the NYSE & filed for two Bitcoin ETFs with the SEC, the CBOE became the first institutional investor to launch a Bitcoin futures market and CME group & followed suit a week later doing the same.

Those changes took effect on Jan. 18 — the same day that Benchmark first moved to dismiss its suit, according to the filing.

SAN FRANCISCO — In charges that could delay Uber's chances of delivering the first commercial self - driving trucks, Alphabet Inc.'s self - driving car company Waymo has filed suit against the company for trade secret misappropriation, patent infringement and unfair competition.

Mr. Keith Cressman, a Methodist minister, filed suit against the state alleging violations of his rights to freedom of speech, due process, and the free exercise of religion under the First and Fourteenth Amendments.

On August 22, two weeks before Schlafly's death, while the first suit was languishing in court, the six pro-Cruz directors filed a second lawsuit alleging misconduct by Martin.

The suit, filed by several Jewish groups and three rabbis on October 4, argues that «the government can not compel the transmission of messages that the speaker does not want to express - especially when the speaker is operating in an area of heightened First Amendment protection, such as a religious ritual.»

My first thought was that if you start telling others about this particular website, they in turn could turn around and file a defamation suit against you.

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.

Rice is the first of the would - be Democrats seeking to replace AG Andrew Cuomo to issue a formal statement in the wake of his filing of a civil suit yesterday that accused Espada of bilking his Bronx nonprofit of some $ 14 million worth of charitable funds.

A whistleblower has filed a suit accusing her former employer, a late Westchester County pathologist, of evading New York income and estate taxes in what is believed to be the state's first unsealed qui tam estate tax case.

Delivering judgment on Tuesday, Justice John Tsoho, in giving the EFCC a go - ahead to continue and conclude its ongoing investigations, struck out the fundamental human rights enforcement suit filed by the former First Lady against the anti-graft agency.

Supporters of overturning the ban filed suit to challenge the measure, arguing its outdated and against the spirit of the First Amendment.

In his suit marked FHC / ABJ / CS / 508/2017 and filed on June 28, Dawodu urged the court to declare Saraki as empowered by the Nigerian Constitution to set up a medical panel to determine Buhari's health status «without first being a resolution of the Executive Council of the Federation.»

The suit, which was first filed in 2013, stems from fraud complaints against the now - defunct university.

The development of Lago Resort & Casino in the town of Tyre was being challenged by Finger Lakes Gaming & Racetrack in a suit first filed in March.

Evans has won the first round of his court battle as the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos on Wednesday, August 16 ruled that the fundamental rights enforcement suit filed by him can proceed.

HOOSICK FALLS, N.Y. — The first personal injury suit in connection to water contamination in Hoosick Falls has been filed by Weitz and Luxenberg.

According to the Minister in a suit number 6 / 577/2016, filed at the High Court of the federal Capital territory in the Abuja Judicial Division, is seeking among others, payment of an aggravated damages to the tune of N3billion, (N2 billion against Lere Olayinka, the first defendant and another N1bilion aggravated damages against Dr Omotoso, the second defendant).

He said since the commencement of the EFCC investigations, the former first lady had, through the same set of lawyers, filed a fundamental human rights enforcement suit marked FHC / ABJ / CS / 586/2017, demanding N2bn against the EFCC for an alleged violation of her right.

The National Rifle Association filed suit against the New York State Department of Financial Services and Governor Andrew Cuomo (D.) on Friday, alleging they violated the group's First Amendment rights.

The former First Lady has since filed a suit at a Federal High Court in Lagos against the commission seeking an order to unfreeze the accounts.

A Federal High Court in Abuja has adjourned indefinitely a suit filed by the first runner - up in the last governorship primary of the All Progressives Congress in Ondo State, Mr. Olusegun Abraham, seeking an order nullifying the election of the Ondo State Governor - elect, Mr. Rotimi Akeredolu.

The suit filed last week in state court cited data from the Justice Center for the Protection of People with Special Needs showing that of more than 70,000 calls in the hotline's first 11 months, only 1,402 were assigned to its investigators.

In an academic disagreement, «filing a defamation suit... may be the last response in extreme cases,» Petrila says, «but you have to search for a long time before finding a case in which a threat to sue is the first or an early response.»

The suit, filed in state district court last month by a group of medium - sized districts, is the first legal challenge to the finance system, which dates to 1974.

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.

And the Los Angeles Unified School District may be the place where the first suit is filed.

(A student who was a first grader when the Kansas suit was filed in 2010 would now be in their last semester of eighth grade.)

She filed suit in Federal Court in Chicago claiming her First Amendment rights had been violated.

The Wright v. New York case was first filed in 2014, when nine families from across the state brought suit against the State of New York and others, claiming that teacher tenure, dismissal, and quality - blind layoff laws deprive New York children of their right to a sound basic education as guaranteed under the New York State Constitution.

First was the legislative effort, then a ballot question, and the third alternative was a lawsuit using an elite Boston law firm to «file a class - action suit to lift the charter cap» because «it unconstitutionally denies children access to an adequate education.»

A Federal sector complainant has to first exhaust the administrative process set out at 29 CFR 1614 before filing a civil suit.

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The first is a judicial foreclosure, which involves the mortgage lender filing suit with the judicial system.