Sentences with phrase «group of defendants»

A second case involves what is called a «reverse class action law suit» brought by Voltage Pictures against an as - yet unidentified group of defendants for copyright violation related to the downloading of films in which Voltage holds copyright.

Also be careful with labels where there is a group of defendants or claimants.

Once you can prove but - for causation against a group of defendants globally, then it become just for the plaintiff to recover against each one who's negligence was sufficient to possibly have caused her loss.

The brothers» information subsequently resulted in the conviction of only one of a large group of defendants.

A class action is a form of civil action where one or a few plaintiffs can sue a defendant or a number of defendants on behalf of a larger group of people who claim the same type of loss from the same defendant of group of defendants.

The plaintiff has shown that she is in a correlative relationship of doer and sufferer of the same harm with the group of defendants as a whole, if not necessarily with each individual defendant.

The prosecutor in Padua, where the case against a different group of defendants resides, has asked to dismiss all charges as well.

The Christic Institute lawsuit charged a group of defendants, many of whom were key players in the Iran - contra scandal, with participation in a criminal conspiracy.»

Mixed race suspects were more likely to be sent to court than given a police disposal; Black and mixed race defendants were more likely to be remanded in custody prior to their hearing date; Black defendants had a higher chance of being acquitted than white ones, suggesting that different standards of evidence may be applied to cases involving different groups of defendants; Mixed race teenagers were more likely than others to be given a (more serious) community sentence than a (less onerous) first tier penalty or referral order.

The court was asked to answer a question of first impression that was whether defense counsel, who represents the defendant Dr. Dale Brink and the defendant Performance Foot and Ankle LLC, is prohibited from conducting ex parte communications with McChristian's treating podiatrist, Dr. Timothy Krygsheld, who is also a member, and in the control group of the defendant.

Not exact matches

«By requiring more precision in initial pleadings, the bill would allow courts and defendants to better assess the legitimacy of infringement claims,» notes the Internet Association, a group that supports the bill.

Can you imagine being in a group that has a little more than 500 employees and has the following statistics: 29 have been accused of spousal abuse 7 have been arrested for fraud 19 have been accused of writing bad checks 117 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least 2 businesses 3 have done time for assault 71 can not get a credit card due to bad credit 14 have been arrested on drug - related charges 8 have been arrested for shoplifting 21 are currently defendants in lawsuits 84 have been arrested for drunk driving in the last year

«Defendant Long has a pattern and practice of singling out a select group of young male church members and using his authority as Bishop over them to ultimately bring them to a point of engaging in a sexual relationship,» the suits allege.

The group's appeal has the Attorney - General of the Federation, Mr. Abubakar Malami (SAN), as the sole defendant.

A defendant can, for example, organize large groups of political supporters to attend a trial, he said, adding that it can be «palpable when there is community support in the courtroom.»

But the trial judge after hearing the arguments of both parties dismissed the application with Honeywell Group's lawyer, Bode Olanipekun, consequently praying the court to continue the hearing of the suit with the defendant (Ecobank) opening its case.

«On 13 December 2011 the first defendant [News Group Newspapers] admitted a list of matters including that it had entered into an agreement with the second defendant [Glenn Mulcaire] and paid him hundreds of thousands of pounds to obtain information about specific individuals for use by the News of the World journalists and publication in the newspaper.

The indictment today charges that Bruno «routinely met with various individuals and representatives of groups who asked that defendant Joseph L. Bruno take action benefitting their interests regarding legislative, funding, contract, and regulatory issues pending before the New York State Legislature.»

Schneiderman filed papers with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on Tuesday, two days after gay marriage became legal in New York State and a day after he was named among the defendants in a lawsuit by a conservative group seeking to overturn the state's gay marriage law.

The pledge provoked anger from feminist pressure groups, who said it would tip justice and public opinion in favour of the defendants.

A group of motorists have added the Port Authority as a defendant in a lawsuit claiming th at they are getting soaked with thousands of dollars in fines for missing...

The group is often probed for financial fraud for forging birth certificates, vehicle registrations and identifications and is also known for bombarding defendants with a barrage of lawsuits, according to the Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services.

Justice Abang further directed INEC and the PDP to «reject and ignore any activity including primary elections / congresses for the nomination of candidates for the gubernatorial elections in Edo and Ondo states, purportedly conducted on behalf of the 2nd defendant (PDP) by any other persons or group of persons other than the Sheriff group.»

The researchers split their volunteers into groups of 20, and had each group read descriptions of 50 defendants.

The defendants, members of the group Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty, will be sentenced next month along with three people who pleaded guilty earlier to conspiracy to blackmail.

In 2014, the US Federal Trade Commission fined UK - based JDI Dating (a group of 18 websites, including Cupidswand.com and FlirtCrowd.com)[54] over US$ 600000, finding that «the defendants offered a free plan that allowed users to set up a profile with personal information and photos.

Court finds that the defendant Internet dating service Great Expectations, also known as GE Management Group of N.Y., Inc., violated New Yorks Dating Services Law.

The group really engaged in debating the verdict of whether the defendant on trial was guilty or not guilty.

The defendants also argue that the plaintiffs failed to prove they are members of a «suspect class,» which basically means plaintiffs didn't prove that school districts harmed a specific group — in this case, minority kids from low - income families — by moving ineffective teachers into schools populated by members of the group.

Starting no later than September of 2008 and continuing for at least one year, the Publisher Defendants» CEOs (at times joined by one non-defendant publisher's CEO) met privately as a group approximately once per quarter.

The proposed Final Judgment, submitted at the same time as the Complaint, requires the settling defendants — Hachette Book Group, Inc., HarperCollins Publishers L.L.C., and Simon & Schuster, Inc. — to return pricing discretion to e-book retailers and comply with other obligations designed to end the anticompetitive effects of the conspiracy.

United States of America, Plaintiff, v. Apple, Inc., Hachette Book Group, Inc., Harpercollins Publishers L.L.C., Verlagsgruppe Georg Von Holtzbrinck GMBH, Holtzbrinck Publishers, LLC D / B / A Macmillan, The Penguin Group, A Division of Pearson PLC, Penguin Group (USA), Inc., and Simon & Schuster, Inc., Defendants.

On December 16, 2009, the day after both companies» initial meetings with Apple, Penguin Group CEO John Makinson had a breakfast meeting at a London hotel with the CEO of another Publisher Defendant's parent company.

Pursuant to Section 2 (b) of the Antitrust Procedures and Penalties Act («APPA» or «Tunney Act»), 15 U.S.C. 16 (b)- (h), Plaintiff United States of America («United States») files this Competitive Impact Statement relating to the proposed Final Judgment against Defendants Hachette Book Group, Inc. («Hachette»), HarperCollins Publishers L.L.C. («HarperCollins»), and Simon & Schuster, Inc. («Simon & Schuster»; collectively with Hachette and HarperCollins, «Settling Defendants»), submitted on April 11, 2012, for entry in this antitrust proceeding.

The United States of America, acting under the direction of the Attorney General of the United States, brings this civil antitrust action against Defendants Apple, Inc. («Apple»); Hachette Book Group, Inc. («Hachette»); HarperCollins Publishers L.L.C. («HarperCollins»); Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH and Holtzbrinck Publishers, LLC d / b / a Macmillan (collectively, «Macmillan»); The Penguin Group, a division of Pearson plc and Penguin Group (USA), Inc. (collectively, «Penguin»); and Simon & Schuster, Inc. («Simon & Schuster»; collectively with Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan, and Penguin, «Publisher Defendants») to obtain equitable relief to prevent and remedy violations of Section 1 of the Sherman Act, 15 U.S.C. 1.

Well, suffice it to say that individuals and groups associated with the defendants are sounding off through the comment process, and they are making very strong claims to the general effect that DOJ's efforts to protect consumers against ebook price - fixing are misguided, because the DOJ should instead be protecting the interests and the distribution infrastructure of the same publishers who colluded with Apple to raise ebook prices by 30 to 100 percent back in 2010.

Plaintiffs argue the sheer volume of three hundred total investment choices for retirement investors indicates that defendants failed properly to monitor and evaluate the historical performance and expense of each of these funds, compare that historical performance and expense to a peer group of funds and / or even compare the three segments against one another.

Genworth filed a motion for summary judgment in the class action alleging that defendants misrepresented the role that Robert Brinker played in the management of the BJ Group Services portfolio.

Plaintiffs are environmental protection groups with a common goal to prevent defendant City of Los Angeles (the City) from implementing a program to trap, neuter and release feral cats to the outdoors without conducting an adequate environmental review under the California Environmental Quality Act, Public Resources Code section 21000 et seq. (CEQA).

In his lawsuit, Simon - Whelan says that defendants in his case also enforce their control over the market for Warhol works through a select group of powerful galleries and dealers who enjoy a special relationship with Fremont, the foundation, and the authentication board.

you need to name the specific harm done and who the victims are, in a court of law you need a plantiff and defendant and counsel and specific charges in order to receive compesation, and the victims must be compensated by the wrong doers, so who are the victims here and who are the wrong doers nad where is the court decision that says so and so must pay someone or a group of someone?

«Defendants stole a page from the Big Tobacco playbook and sponsored public relations campaigns, either directly or through the American Petroleum Institute or other groups, to deny and discredit the mainstream scientific consensus on global warming, downplay the risks of global warming, and even to launch unfounded attacks on the integrity of leading climate scientists,» the San Francisco suit reads.

Defendants sponsored publicity campaigns using front groups and paid «scientific» mouthpieces — including some of the same scientists that the tobacco industry had used to downplay the risks of cigarettes — to discredit the mainstream scientific consensus on global warming and downplay the risks of climate change.

The banks named as defendants in the lawsuit are Bank of America Corp., Credit Suisse Group AG, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Morgan Stanley & Co. and UBS Group AG.

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.

Notwithstanding the liberal «relation back» principles of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, and despite the plaintiffs» claim of «fraudulent concealment,» the Appellate Practice Group secured an award of summary judgment in favor of all additional defendants based on the statute of limitations defense.

Ruling in Harris v. Leikin Group, Justice David Brown considered the cost motion of one of the defendants, First Capital Realty Inc., following its successful bid for summary judgment.

In its essence, however, the Code remains a collection of case summaries grouped by key words with cross references, that characterized previous editions, enhanced with «comments» in the form of short précis for every section and easy to read case summaries that substitute abbreviations for Defendant / Accused (D), Prosector / Crown (P) and Victim / Complainant (V).

The Assessed Group [Group 2] may be satisfied with the quantum of the award made by the OLRB and the outcome that the Defendants are liable to pay that award as the damages for their negligence, conspiracy, inducing breach of contract, or oppression remedy claim.»

The plaintiff's lawyer and the lawyer with whom the defendant had spoken both practised as part of a group of lawyers under the same firm name, sharing the same business address and office premises and using the same telephone number (save for three digit extensions), fax number and email domain — but who were not partners, nor members of a law firm as traditionally defined.