Sentences with phrase «first plaintiffs attorney»

Lanier became the first plaintiffs attorney to sue Merck successfully on a Vioxx claim.

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Scalia, attorney for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the lead plaintiff, opened with a smooth presentation outlining familiar arguments: the DOL lacks the authority to regulate advisors, acted in an «arbitrary and capricious» manner, and violated plaintiffs» First Amendment rights.

Friday's ruling is «the first time [that] a U.S. court not only recognized the extraordinary harms young people are facing due to climate change, but ordered an agency to do something about it,» said Andrea Rodgers, an attorney with the Western Environmental Law Center who represents the young plaintiffs.

«This is the first time any case for a banana worker has come before a U.S. court,» Duane Miller, one of the attorneys representing more than 30 Nicaraguan plaintiffs who worked on plantations from 1964 to 1990, tells BusinessWeek.According to one upcoming lawsuit that was filed in 2004, Dole Fresh Fruit Co. and Standard Fruit Co., now part of Dole, were not only negligent, but that they fraudulently concealed information about DBCP's effects.

First, there's good news for autism blogger Kathleen Seidel who was hit with a subpoena by plaintiffs attorney Clifford Shoemaker, seeking disclosure of her research sources, financial records and communications with other bloggers in a lawsuit alleging that defendant Bayer's vaccine caused the plaintiff's autism.

Looking back in an interview with the First Amendment Center, John R. Bates, the plaintiff in the Supreme Court case that opened the door to attorney advertsing, says: «It is the nature of the First Amendment that there is going to be speech in every medium of communication that some people don't like.»

The attorneys make their statements separately (typically plaintiff first, then defendant), emphasizing certain evidence and testimony, and providing a summary of their argument to persuade the jury of the strength of their case.

Although indemnity exposure to a nonsettling defendant is certainly a factor to be gauged in the good faith determination calculus, PacifiCare could not recover fees under Health and Safety Code section 1371.25 given that the statutory provision's first sentence prevented plaintiffs from holding PacifiCare vicariously liable for Bright's conduct or for recovering the attorney's fees PacificCare incurred in its defense of plaintiffs» claims.

First, it includes the plaintiffs attorney's two - to three - page time sheet for the period for which the court granted her fees.

The Attorn, The Attorney General of Ontario and Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Ontario, the Robinson Huron Treaty First Nations — of which there are 21 north of Lake Huron — are challenging what the plaintiffs call the government's failure to implement specific commitments of the Robinson Huron Treaty of 1850, and specifically the annuity augmentation of the treaty.

First, the appellate court determined that legislative amendments to section 6147 — replacing prior language «plaintiff» with the current «client» verbiage — clearly demonstrated that 6147 applies to both litigation and transactional work by an attorney.

Cited among the Best Lawyers were six attorneys from Todd & Weld LLP: Jeffrey N. Catalano (Products Liability Litigation - Plaintiffs); Howard M. Cooper (Commercial Litigation and First Amendment Law); Elaine M. Epstein (Family Law); Max D. Stern (Civil Rights Law, Criminal Defense — Non-White-Collar, and Criminal Defense — White Collar); Gary Owen Todd (Family Law and Trusts & Estates); and J. Owen Todd (Commercial Litigation, Eminent Domain & Condemnation Law, and Personal Injury Litigation).

Recently, the Hawaii Supreme Court reversed a lower court's judgment in favor of a car accident defendant whose attorneys repeatedly raised the question of a plaintiff's «motive» for filing the claim in the first place, repeatedly insinuating — despite a lack of conviction or even formal accusation — that plaintiff had committed workers» compensation insurance fraud.

When plaintiffs initially present their cases to truck accident attorneys, their first question is almost always the same: «How much is my claim worth?»

While plaintiffs» lawyers are seeking to use panel voir dire, defense attorneys and prosecutors requested it more frequently in criminal cases this first year.

Richard became passionate about representing plaintiffs after experiencing first - hand the tricks and tactics insurance companies and defense attorneys use to avoid paying the fair value of claims.

The unfortunate history here also reflects the plaintiff's hiring and firing of three different counsel, expressed disdain towards the children's attorney, and utter disregard for the authority of the Court... [A] fter careful consideration of the circumstances of the nature and extent of the multiple instances of violation of the court order, the plaintiff is sentenced to a period of incarceration for six weekends, to be served on the first and third weekends of each month for the months of June, July and August, 2010.

First, I wasn't surprised that plaintiffs» attorneys uncovered problems with foreclosure documents.