Sentences with phrase «for multiple defendants»

While the possibility still remains for multiple defendants to be joined provided a plaintiff is able to demonstrate additional bases, this modification should severely limit the scope of patent troll litigation.

Acting for multiple defendants in # 120 million Chancery Division proceedings for alleged fraud, conspiracy and duress in connection with the financing of a London property development.

At another firm, which has acted for multiple defendants in SFO investigations and prosecutions, a prominent partner says: «The advent of DPAs has allowed the state to do something it has been lamentably bad at doing: to use the criminal justice system as, potentially, an effective tool in the regulation of business.

Not exact matches

== > Related: Despite multiple requests by AIG, AIG has been unable to gain access to the loan files for nearly all of the RMBS underwritten by Defendants.

District Attorney Thomas P. Zugibe stated that on or about June 9, 2012, the defendants were observed by Loss Prevention for Lord and Taylor stealing multiple sunglasses from a display within the store.

«Make no mistake: The government's case is heavily leveraged on Todd Howe,» said Milton Williams, the attorney for Gerardi, who also laid out multiple reasons he thinks jurors should be able to form reasonable doubts regarding Gerardi and the other defendants» guilt.

An interesting related case for the reverse - multiple defendants for one lawyer - is Cuyler v. Sullivan.

As laid out in the appellate opinion, plaintiff ‟ s counsel and defendants ‟ counsel agreed to multiple extensions of plaintiff ‟ s time to file a motion for attorney fees on appeal, while they were trying to settle the amount owed.

We have experience handling complex cases with multiple defendants and have successfully obtained multi-million dollar verdicts and settlements for our clients.

The group, which also includes professionals in the firm's Washington, Chicago and Phoenix offices, has handled litigation in more than 30 states in cases ranging from putative nationwide class actions and mass actions for personal injury and property damage to complex environmental investigation and / or remediation issues and matters involving multiple defendants and hundreds of products.

However, if in the same car accident the plaintiff suffered burns, which resulted in multiple surgeries and months of prolonged physical therapy, the general damages would be awarded to compensate the victim for the pain and suffering that arose from the defendant's negligent or reckless action.

H -04-4543, (S.D. Texas 2006)-- Counsel for defendant HoMedics (FKA Distributing) in a patent infringement action with multiple patents concerning control schemes for personal wellness products.

Defended multiple networking companies in Silicon Valley in a patent infringement litigation involving network switches and routers and successfully settled for the defendants

After the jury returned the verdict for the defendant in Johnson v. McCullough, the plaintiff's lawyer searched a litigation database and found a non-responsive juror had been a defendant in multiple debt collection cases and a personal injury case.

In Clements v. Clements,, 2012 SCC 32, the Supreme Court of Canada re-affirmed the primacy of the «but for» test in proving causation and confined the alternate «material contribution» test to cases involving multiple negligent defendants where it is not possible to prove which one caused the injury.

H -04-4543, (S.D. Tex.): Counsel for defendant HoMedics (FKA Distributing) in a patent infringement action with multiple patents concerning control schemes for personal wellness products.

The settlement brings to a close the consolidated class action lawsuit brought in 2010 by multiple retirement funds against Countrywide and other defendants for securities violations involving the packaging and sale of MBS.

In this latest chapter of a long - running litigation involving the direct infringement of patent claims involving multiple actors, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit recently concluded that a defendant can be liable for direct infringement when it «conditions participation in an activity or receipt of a benefit...

The action involved 18 defendants and multiple internet / software patents for managing and querying complex databases.

«Claimants may now be able to bring actions in the UK against UK resident defendants for infringement of their rights in multiple jurisdictions.»

Further to my previous posts about Independent Medical Exams in BC Supreme Court Injury Claims unpublished reasons for judgement recently came to my attention (Hou v. Kirmani BCSC Vancouver Registry, 20091119) dealing with the ability for a Defendant to have an injured party undergo multiple exams where the first defence expert feels an opinion from a second expert would be of benefit.

In plaintiff's suit alleging illness from eating contaminated oysters at defendant's restaurant, the Roanoke U.S. District Court denies plaintiff's motion to voluntarily dismiss his suit, as litigation has been ongoing for two years, there are multiple third - party complaints up the...

On March 30, 2018, Judge Rya Zobel of the United States District Court (District of Massachusetts) issued a memorandum of decision on two Defendants» (NSTAR Electric, formerly Boston Edison, and General Electric) Motions for Summary Judgment in an asbestos personal injury and wrongful death matter, June Stearns and Clifford Stearns as Co-Executors of the Estate of Wayne Oliver v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., et al., that addresses multiple issues, including statute of repose, strict liability and liability of a premises owner.

In our global economy where consumer litigation often includes multiple defendants and international corporations, access to online databases and repositories for electronic document discovery on a secured server is invaluable.

Therefore, people who are hurt at a business may have multiple defendants to sue for premises liability: the owner, the tenant, the property management company, etc. may all be defendants in a case.

If there are multiple defendants responsible for an accident, they may each be held liable for the full sum of the plaintiff's damages under a theory of «joint and several liability.»

Class actions are a specific type of litigation that allows for combining multiple, similar court actions into a single action brought against a common defendant or set of defendants.

Represented investors and secured judgment against multiple foreign and domestic defendants on claims for federal securities fraud and theft.

A $ 700,000 settlement for a client who claimed that the defendant neurosurgeon's negligence caused or substantially contributed to a three - year delay in the diagnosis of the plaintiff's multiple sclerosis, during which time the plaintiff's MS progressed untreated.

It is therefore common to see separate class actions launched in multiple jurisdictions against the same defendant for the same claims.

Unlike the United States, Canada does not have a «multidistrict litigation» system to consolidate multiple cases against the same defendant against for the same claims.

R (Sanneh) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2015] 3 WLR 1867 Represents defendants to multiple challenges to regulations which remove benefits entitlement from claimants with a right of residence under the CJEU ruling in Zambrano.

For example, while no one particular defendant's negligence alone may be sufficient to have caused the plaintiff's injuries, the collective negligence of multiple defendants may have caused the plaintiff's injuries.

While Mr. Sacks was left with no compensation and no remedy for his injuries, this decision provides clarity on the application of causation in medical malpractice cases involving multiple defendants.

I leave for another day, for example, the scenario that might arise in mass toxic tort litigation with multiple plaintiffs, where it is established statistically that the defendant's acts induced an injury on some members of the group, but it is impossible to know which ones.

The graph below counts each case multiple times, once for each defendant.

Examining this same data (counting a case multiple times, once for each defendant) on a month - by - month basis shows that, in the peak year of 2011, most of the activity occurred in the month of the implementation of the AIA (September 2011).

In June, the Home Affairs Committee called for specific guidance and training for judges in child sexual exploitation cases, and highlighted the risk of multiple defendants cross-examining vulnerable witnesses.

First, from the outset, the underlying question in this case was how to apply the «but for» test in cases of delayed medical diagnosis and treatment involving multiple defendant tortfeasors.

Attorneys for both plaintiffs and defendants will find comprehensive coverage of such matters as: the advantages and disadvantages of suits based on strict liability, negligence and breach of warranty; the use of state consumer protection statutes; the duty to warn and its innumerable ramifications; the liability of the manufacturers, retailers and other potential defendants in the distribution chain; successor liability; federal preemption of common law claims; monitoring product safety during design, manufacturing and distribution; causation theories in actions involving multiple manufacturers; product misuse and alteration; the elements of proof needed in an action; recovery for economic loss; punitive damages; and the government contractor defense.

After suffering negative effects from over-sedation during a knee surgery, appellee sued multiple defendants including appellant, a hospital district management contractor for negligence.

I believe, however, that the potential for conflict of interest in representing multiple defendants is «so grave,» see ABA Project on Standards for Criminal Justice, Defense Function, Standard 3.5 (b)(App.

(iii) Negligence Actions Involving Multiple Defendants: The basic «but for» test also applies in these more complex cases where loss flows from a variety of negligence acts from different parties.

(1) extending negligent misrepresentation beyond «business transactions» to product liability, unprecedented in Texas; (2) ignoring multiple US Supreme Court decisions that express and implied preemption operate independently (as discussed here) to dismiss implied preemption with nothing more than a cite to the Medtronic v. Lohr express preemption decision; (3) inventing some sort of state - law tort to second - guess the defendant following one FDA marketing approach (§ 510k clearance) over another (pre-market approval), unprecedented anywhere; (4) holding that the learned intermediary rule does not apply whenever a defendant «compensates» or «incentivizes» physicians to use its products, absent any Texas state or appellate authority; (5) imposing strict liability on an entity not in the product's chain of sale, contrary to Texas statute (§ 82.001 (2)-RRB-; (6) creating a claim for «tortious interference» with the physician - patient relationship, again utterly unprecedented; (7) creating «vicarious» breach of fiduciary duty for engaging doctors to serve as expert witnesses in mass tort litigation also involving their patients, ditto; and (8) construing a consulting agreement with a physician as «commercial bribery» to avoid the Texas cap on punitive damages, jaw - droppingly unprecedented.

What are my Gretna Nebraska court's rules on defensive driving courses for defendants with multiple traffic citations?

What are my Kelso Washington court's rules on defensive driving courses for defendants with multiple traffic citations?

What are my Elkhorn Nebraska court's rules on defensive driving courses for defendants with multiple traffic citations?

What are my East Grand Rapids Michigan court's rules on defensive driving courses for defendants with multiple traffic citations?

What are my Habersham Georgia court's rules on defensive driving courses for defendants with multiple traffic citations?

What are my Glendale Colorado court's rules on defensive driving courses for defendants with multiple traffic citations?