Sentences with phrase «fund legal cases»

«Proposed reforms to the way people can fund legal cases plus a ban on referral fees is an ominous formula which could lead to marketing men at claims management companies actually running personal injury cases,» says APIL president, David Bott.

Now the question is, Will Web appeals to fund legal cases become common for cash - strapped clients?

Billionaire Peter Thiel is funding the legal case against Gawker, which raises troubling questions.

Not exact matches

It was later discovered that Thiel had funded Hogan's successful legal case against the media company.

After a report by Forbes, which the New York Times eventually corroborated, billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel gave the NYT an interview in which he admitted to helping fund Hogan's legal case.

You can help First Nations defend their rights and title — and the air, land and water we all depend on — with a donation to the legal fund supporting these cases.

Case studies of disclosed legal structures used by the Bitcoin Investment Trust, CoinList, Blockchain Capital and Crypto Assets Fund

In cases where the algorithm recommends funding, Social Capital still has humans do things such as legal vetting and other back - office tasks.

Case in point: Comstock Mining Inc., a young mining company which we own in our Gold and Precious Metals Fund (USERX), has managed to shrink operating expenses from $ 4.4 million this time last year to $ 3.8 million, mostly by lowering legal and advisory expenses.

«If you're a billionaire and you don't like the coverage of you, and you don't particularly want to embroil yourself any further in a public scandal, it's a pretty smart, rational thing to fund other legal cases.»

If the holders of these funds can not show how they earned the money legally and properly declared it on their tax returns and other financial statements, a legal case can be made that it belongs rightly to the Russian people.

If you want to place restrictions on your gift, as might be the case when you're giving stock to minors or young adults, you could set up a custodial account (commonly known as UTMA or UGMA) or work with your tax and legal advisors to establish a trust fund.

«Universities Superannuation Scheme, the largest private pension fund in the United Kingdom, diligently prosecuted this case as lead plaintiff to assist in securing a fantastic recovery for defrauded investors as well as achieving some key legal rulings along the way.

Time's Up — an initiative and legal defense fund fighting sexual harassment and gender inequality — has called on Cuomo to open an investigation of Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance and his office after a story in New York Magazine revealed the alleged mishandling handling of a Harvey Weinstein sexual assault case.

Even if it passes, though, exempting yeshivas from educational guidelines could spark a legal challenge, noted Michael Rebell, a Columbia University professor and lawyer who has pursued school funding - equity cases.

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The president last month lost another major legal case when the country's highest court found he violated the constitution over the use of public funds to upgrade his private residence.

House GOP lawyers even declared in a legal brief that their case would not affect funding for the state - run plans.

The speaker said she would expand legal aid for New Yorkers in some civil cases, like evictions and credit disputes, and fund more stringent enforcement of laws that protect workers.

Before the introduction of the residency test, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) described the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offences Act (Laspo) as «targeting legal aid at the most serious cases which have sufficient priority to justify the use of public funds&raLegal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offences Act (Laspo) as «targeting legal aid at the most serious cases which have sufficient priority to justify the use of public funds&ralegal aid at the most serious cases which have sufficient priority to justify the use of public funds».

The funds come from legal settlements with banks and insurance companies for contributing to the housing crises and in some cases, breaking state laws.

SILVER did no legal work whatsoever on these asbestos cases, his sole role having been to use his official position and access to state funds to induce Dr. Taub to provide him with these lucrative referrals.

New York State's campaign finance rules allow lawmakers wide latitude to use campaign funds for covering legal fees, restaurant tabs, season tickets to professional sporting events, or in the infamous case of former Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno, a $ 1,300 pool clean - up.

But while advocates have praised the deal, some critics have raised concerns about its reliance on so - called «one - shot deals,» or cases in which the city relies on funds from non-recurring sources such as the sale of new yellow taxi medallions, or large legal settlements including the CityTime scandal.

The Sheffield city region review into the case for establishing their combined authority explicitly stated, for instance, that the major rationale was to give legal effect to existing informal collaboration, enabling local authority leaders «to obtain more devolved powers from government and additional funding streams».

Lambda Legal had been hopeful the court would not agree to hear the cases, while the Alliance Defense Fund expressed confidence that the cases would be overturned.

Bharara made headlines as U.S. attorney for a legal offensive on insider trading that led to cases against dozens of traders, corporate executives and hedge - fund insiders, including the still - jailed Galleon Group co-founder Raj Rajaratnam.

Dr. Piontkovski's case was taken up by the international scientific community, human rights advocates, and friends and colleagues, who organized letter - writing campaigns, shared information on a special website set up for the purpose, and began raising funds for his legal defense.

There has only been one legal case in which academic privilege and researcher - participant confidentiality were on the table: In 2014, CAUT funded a legal challenge on behalf of two University of Ottawa criminology professors resisting police efforts to obtain records related to a study about male escorts.

A californian environment group, the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, has asked the California Judicial Council to introduce rules that would force lawyers to use recycled paper to file cases in court

Fortunately, progress in stem - cell research can still continue through non-federal funds, and the prevailing zeitgeist does seem to favor an eventual nullification of the decision: Yesterday, another overreaching legal case bit the dust when an appellate judge dismissed a lawsuit that claimed CERN's Large Hadron Collider risked destroying the Earth.

- No increase in funding for radioactive waste cleanup, even though in a number of cases funding is already insufficient to meet legal milestones.

Working as the founder and executive director of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Marshall was assigned to the case of The State of Connecticut vs. Joseph Spell in Bridgeport, north of his Maryland stomping grounds.

The group has launched a legal fund to help men and women file legal cases against their harassers.

If that's the case, then why is the mayor's chancellor of schools, Carmen Fariña, the board chair of the Fund for Public Schools, whose express legal purpose is «improving New York City's Public Schools by attracting private investment» in public education?

States have some oversight, but individual municipalities, are, in most cases, the legal entities responsible for running schools and for providing the large majority of funding through local tax dollars.

Third, while making a legal case against the inclusion of faith - based schools, Markell wrote that «the government should not be in the business of funding programs or institutions that promote one religion over all others.»

Responding to a hypothetical question posed by Associate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, Julius L. Chambers of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund conceded that if his argument won the day, orders in such cases could conceivably remain in force for 100 years or more if the effects of segregation persisted that long.

As Star Parker explains in this article: Kids Captive of Nation's Teachers Unions, a successful entrepreneur from Silicon Valley funded the legal team behind the Vergara case.

While Stamford Mayor Dan Malloy was one of the original plaintiffs in the case, upon being sworn in as Governor Dannel Malloy, the self - described education proponent completely reversed his position and has spent that last five years wasting precious time and taxpayer funds in his concerted effort o delay, derail and destroy what is probably the most important Connecticut legal case in our lifetimes.

Plaintiffs who brought this case, Southern Legal Foundation supporters, allege that public dollars can not be used to support a privately funded scholarship program where children use the money to attend private religious schools and donors receive state tax credits.

A pending Supreme Court appeal of this essential case may set a legal precedent that will drive the still broiling debate over longstanding funding inequalities between North Carolina's wealthy and impoverished counties.

Other panelists included: Dr. Joe J. Bernal, former member of the Texas State Board of Education and former member of the Texas legislature, focusing along with Dr. Robledo Montecel on the topic of «Historical Antecedents with Focus on the U.S. vs. Texas Case ``; David Hinojosa, education litigation attorney with the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), focusing on the topic of «State Failing Students with Limited English Skills: The Justice Court Abrupt Reversal»; The Honorable Roberto R. Alonzo, Texas state representative, focusing on the topic of «The Mexican American Legislative and Senate Hispanic Caucuses» Response»; and Dr. José Agustín Ruiz - Escalante, president of TABE, Dr. Leo Gómez, professor at the University of Texas Pan American, and Jesse Romero, legislative consultant with TABE, BEAM and ENABLE, focusing on the topic of «The TABE Action Plan.»

LAUSD settles legal case that cut to the core of how California funds high - needs schools scpr.org/news/2017/09/1...

«Those who really want to end public education as we have it now are now poised to move on different state legislatures with ESA laws similar to Nevada,» said David Sciarra, the executive director of the Education Law Center, a New Jersey group that advocates for equitable school funding and helped organize the legal case against Nevada's voucher program.

Alexandria, Va. (December 22, 2016)- The National School Boards Association (NSBA) along with the California School Boards Association and its Legal Alliance Fund, the Colorado Association of School Boards, and the Horace Mann League have filed an amicus brief in Endrew F. v. Douglas County School District RE-1 asking the court to uphold the standard the Court established in the Rowley case decades ago that provides for students to receive an educational benefit from their special education.

Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is fighting these cases, with a need to raise $ 150,000 to defend the Canada Customs case.

Christina Garner has had to go back to her day job to fund this case, working 60 - 80 weeks to pay her legal bills.

Customers can also choose what percentage of their payment goes to the publisher, to the Humble Bundle company and to a charity picked for the bundle, in this case either the Hero Initiative or the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund.

A lawsuit loan is a personal loan that can help a borrower fund his or her legal case or help him or her pay for living expenses as their lawsuit settles.