Sentences with phrase «frivolous law»

There is no need for asset protection for sham / frivolous law suits.

... On that thread others that had been involved in frivolous law suits only to have to dish out a lot of cash to either protect themselves personally or their company.

The case has been filed in a Nebraska district court by Senator Ernie Chambers, in protest at frivolous law suits in the US courts.

On the solicitor side, it leads to desperate fee cutting leading to corner cutting and incompetence (assuredly not mitigated, but worsened, by the evil of title insurance), while on the barrister side it leads to churning and dragging out, often unreasonably, of files and engaging in ever more frivolous law suits.

It's my frivolous law suit».

Depends, are they going to keep Nut Punching fans, instead of «legitimately» protecting their IP, like when some frivolous Law Firm tried to sue the for patent infringement?

They will do almost anything (including frivolous law suits) to get their cause in the lime light.

Plain and simple, this was a frivolous law suit!

Why pass frivolous laws.

Not exact matches

«The laws will also give the AIRC power to dismiss an unfair dismissal claim without a hearing if the Commission finds that it is frivolous, vexatious or lacking in substance.»

By law, the credit bureaus are usually required to investigate the item in question within 30 days, unless they consider your dispute to be frivolous.

The law requires credit bureaus to investigate the items in question, usually within 30 days, unless your dispute is considered «frivolous».

State laws vary, but if there is an apparently frivolous lawsuit to harass someone, an anti-SLAPP counter-suit freezes the discovery process and often gets expedited treatment in the judicial system.

«Both the statute and case law surrounding private prosecutions are adamant that courts must protect the right of access to these private prosecutions, by not assessing punitive costs against the person seeking justice - unless the case is frivolous, and never should have been brought.

Through emphasizing the «calling» to work as a way of serving God, through warning against the pursuit of frivolous leisure - time activities, and through approving the abolition of laws against usury, the Calvinist work ethic facilitated the accumulation of wealth.

Response 26: Legitimacy is conferred by law and can not be lost simply on baseless, frivolous allegations that are lacking in substance, not factual, and actuated by malice.

The MTGP Coordinator Danielle Breck stated that «The Montana Green Party has repeatedly shown, through our various petitioning efforts, that we do, in fact, have the «modicum of voter support» the law requires and that our candidates are not «frivolous,» but rather provide an important alternative to pre-selected, unresponsive, corporate controlled candidates offered by the two - party oligarchy.

There's also a little more than $ 3 million to reduce Law Department «frivolous» lawsuits.

The Town Board, he said, «is doing a disservice to the Amherst residents by spending money on two law firms for what I deem to be a frivolous lawsuit.»

The preliminary budget assigns $ 4.2 million for bulletproof vests and $ 10 million to expand the Police Cadet Program, as well as $ 3.2 million to change how the Law Department handles «frivolous» lawsuits against officers.

The party said it read with utmost disgust the frivolous statement credited to the minister where he reportedly told Nigerians and other members of the public that the attacks on two communities in Benue State that led to the death of over 74 people and destruction of properties worth millions of naira were as a result of the open grazing prohibition law enacted by the state government.

Universities, though, worry that laws aimed at curtailing frivolous patent suits will make it harder for the institutions to enforce their own patent rights.

Although under some laws HBO may have a right to an award of attorneys» fees and expenses if it prevails in an arbitration, HBO agrees that it will seek such an award only in the event that the substance of your claim or the relief sought has been deemed by the arbitrator to be frivolous or brought for an improper purpose (as measured by the standards set forth in Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11 (b)-RRB-.

Amani has continually been under attack by Mt Vernon, not only through the repeated frivolous use of court proceedings, but also by refusing to comply with state law when it comes to charter school funding.

This law also required parents to attend meetings on poor student behavior and pledged state protection from frivolous lawsuits against teachers who act reasonably to establish order in their classrooms.

Out of the gate, Dear Author contends: «This is a frivolous contention, which if accepted, would run counter to all precedent, and particularly against Sixth Circuit law.»

Harvard Law School graduate and finance expert Gregory Baer indulges his frivolous side in this breakdown of bona fide chances, from getting away with murder (about 2 to 1 odds) to garnering a Rhodes Scholarship (37,500 to 1).

The law requires credit bureaus to investigate the items in question, usually within 30 days, unless your dispute is considered «frivolous».

By law, the credit bureaus are usually required to investigate the item in question within 30 days, unless they consider your dispute to be frivolous.

By law, credit bureaus have to investigate your dispute, unless it is frivolous.

According to Deuteronomy 23:19 - 20, it was against the law for an Israelite to charge interest to fellow Jews (of course, loans were only to be requested in times of extreme need and poverty — not to fund frivolous, sinful spending like we see today), but many violated this command.

Even if the legislature does make a new law to protect Oklahomans, they may find themselves hopelessly tied up in court against big agricultural companies and conglomerates who are happy to waste taxpayer money on frivolous litigation while their companies continue to rake in huge profits at the expense of ordinary Oklahomans.

Telegraph Cove Resort further reserves the right to deny access to your personally identifiable information: (a) when such denial of access is required by law, (b) when granting you access is reasonably likely to negatively impact other people's privacy, (c) to protect Telegraph Cove Resort's rights and property, and (d) when such requests are frivolous or made in bad faith.

«As we have made clear time and again, Exxon, like other companies we investigate, is subject to Massachusetts laws, and we will continue to argue that this frivolous lawsuit should be dismissed,» said Healey spokeswoman Chloe Gotsis.

Yesterday we posted on measures taken in the UK to minimize traffic and today we're happy to report that even the US has firmed up laws promoting frivolous gasoline use.

So as frivolous as it sounds, Facebook «likes» for your law firm do have value.

Consider, the train wreck of decommissioned D.C. Administrative Law Judge Roy Pearson, who spent years pursuing a frivolous $ 65 million dollar lawsuit against a mom - and - pop dry cleaning business.

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Big, fun social campaigns generate plenty of attention for other companies, but your law firm can't position itself as frivolous and maintain any credibility.

Judges are already empowered by state law to dismiss a claim deemed «frivolous».

Unfortunately, there have also been a growing number of frivolous lawsuits, particularly actions for damages against law enforcement officers whose conduct has been judicially sanctioned by state trial and appellate courts and, in many instances, even by this Court.

The Mississippi Court of Appeals, reviewing the district court's denial of sanctions against the law firm, held 6 - 4 that the complaint was frivolous and that Rule 11 sanctions should be awarded.

In it, we swear that we will not promote suits upon frivolous pretenses and not pervert the law to favour or prejudice anyone.

Perhaps this is because our course was more or less devoid of any serious discussion about technology (or of any frivolous discussion for that matter), or because none of the LCO's current projects or reports say much about the use of technology; even so, I only now belatedly realize that this just wasn't at the forefront of these young people's thinking about improving the law.

He is proud of the dedication of his asbestos law firm to helping only those with legitimate needs for a mesothelioma lawsuit and not accepting frivolous cases.

This law was passed by the Florida Legislature in response to outcries of unethical and frivolous slip and fall lawsuits being filed by plaintiffs by shifting some of the burden of proving what had happened in the fall injury circumstances from the defendant to the plaintiff.

Rule 3.1 of the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct rule tells us that we can't file (or defend) a lawsuit «unless there is a basis in law and fact for doing so that is not frivolous.»

So, you grab Black's Law Dictionary (2nd Pocket Edition) and look up «frivolous»: «lacking a legal basis or legal merit; not serious; not reasonably purposeful.»

Under rule 25,» [a] n appeal is frivolous» [w] hen the law is well settled, when there can be no reasonable expectation of a reversal.»»

Over the weekend, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed H.B. 1774 into law and put an end to abusive and frivolous lawsuits surrounding weather disasters such as hailstorms.