Sentences with phrase «half years of litigation»

The suit produced three and a half years of litigation and ultimately a hefty settlement to Blue Ribbon for damages.

Jonathan Zaid, the executive director of patient advocacy group Canadians for Fair Access to Medical Marijuana, said the enhanced coverage comes after years of litigation to gain this level of acceptance for medical marijuana.

But if it adopts a more hardball approach, the bank can anger government authorities, prompting years of litigation.

It took five years of litigation, but eventually, the Supreme Court finally decided in 1984 that VCRs were lawful devices.

I think my greatest moment in business was when the first Southwest airplane arrived after four years of litigation and I walked up to it and I kissed that baby on the lips and I cried.

After years of litigation, today's panel reports demonstrate that U.S. dolphin - safe labeling requirements do not discriminate against any imported tuna products and therefore are WTO - consistent.

«These settlements provide substantial closure to five years of litigation,» said Transocean CEO Jeremy Thigpen in a statement.

After four years of litigation, we at World Vision U.S. may now put this matter behind us, and continue our policy of hiring Christians.»

Los Baños, Laguna — After almost four years of litigation, farmers and consumers can finally have peace of mind knowing that their eggplant, commonly known as talong, will now be safe from genetic modification.

Spawned by years of litigation and turf battles, a dispute over who owns Crystal Lake ended quietly last month in a state appellate courtroom.

The 20 - building LICH campus is being sold by SUNY to a developer, Fortis Property Group, despite almost two years of litigation and protests.

«Nassau County has spent millions on attorneys fighting this lawsuit while Mr. Restivo and Mr. Halstead — despite 18 years of wrongful incarceration and over 10 years of litigation — have yet to receive a nickel from Nassau County.

When the veto was announced late on Friday, Cuomo referenced worries of jeopardizing the 2013 settlement agreement between the state, the Oneida Indian Nation, Madison County, and Oneida County, that settled years of litigation over property tax, land and reservation issues, as the driving factor for his rejection of the bill.

After years of litigation, New York City's attempts to collect property taxes from foreign missions to the United Nations has been dealt a major...

Years of community opposition and more than a year of litigation ensued.

The Manhattan Beach, Calif., school district has settled a special education lawsuit for $ 6.7 million, bringing to an end six years of litigation between the district and the parents of a student with autism.

Thus ended 27 years of litigation and 12 years of court jurisdiction over education funding in Massachusetts.

They face a May 7 deadline to show the court their work — and to possibly put an end to seven years of litigation.

Instead, he'd been drafted by the federal appellate court to ensure that after ten years of litigation, no sound arguments remained to save Rommy Gandolph's life.

And as of 2009, Exxon had paid only $ 383 million of this $ 507.5 million to those who sued, stalling on the rest and fighting the $ 500 million in interest owed to fishermen and other small businesses from more than 12 years of litigation.

After eight years of litigation, AWI and other plaintiffs finally prevailed in 2007, and the dolphin - safe label remains truly dolphin - safe.

And he warned that the McCain - Lieberman approach of mandatory reductions in gases would lead to «years of litigation.»

You don't have to get a corridor, and then go through years of litigation, and so no one has really faced up to it.

After seven years of litigation, the lawsuit at this stage has boiled down to a single question: did Google's use of 37 Java APIs infringe Oracle's copyright?

Following years of litigation, the Virginia Supreme Court ruled in Mann's favor in spring 2014.

Most significantly, in June the Environmental Protection Agency proposed new regulations to limit carbon emissions from power plants; if these regulations go into effect — they're expected to face years of litigation — they will cut power plant emissions 30 percent by 2030.

After several years of litigation, the rule came into effect in 2015.

On Feb. 24, after several years of litigation, the 17 tons of silver coins recovered from the ship were flown from the U.S. to Spain.

He is recognized for his work in dispute resolution, which is the result of many years of litigation practice and service as a mediator and arbitrator in both Utah and Nevada.

After four years of litigation, our law firm settled that claim for $ 101 million.

With over 11 years of litigation experience, Mr. Vegter is committed to direct, effective representation of clients and their interests.

Founded in Washington, D.C. in 2008 by industry veterans with more than 50 years of litigation and consulting experience combined, iDS provides consulting, data analytics, processing and hosting of electronically stored information (ESI), and expert services in the areas of electronic discovery, digital forensics, and enterprise applications.

He has over 20 years of litigation experience and has tried over 40 cases and hundreds of arbitrations and mediations.

Langdon & Emison has been recognized as one of the nation's top personal injury firms with more than 30 years of litigation experience representing trucking accident victims and their families.

After five years of litigation and a nearly two - week trial, the team received a defense verdict on a hard fought class action case for breach of fiduciary duty against Mr. Hughes.

Our team at Mesa Law Firm has 15 years of litigation experience.

Slater, reduced by years of litigation against the fanatical animal rights group and other parties, is in financial straits and thinking of walking dogs to earn money.

After five years of litigation, we moved for summary judgment on behalf of the medical providers.

Esther has over 10 years of litigation experience and long - standing expertise of handling disputes involving the ownership and use of horses.

After more than four years of litigation, the city has finally agreed to pay the woman as much as $ 3 million.

After years of litigation and finally a mediation, the defendants, for their reasons, decided to settle and the plaintiffs agreed to settle.»

The fee request comes from lawyers Roxanne Conlin of Des Moines and Richard M. Hagstrom of Minneapolis, who settled the case in April for $ 179.95 million, but not before three trips to the Iowa Supreme Court and some seven years of litigation.

The settlement came about in order to avoid years and years of litigation, but originally, Trump denied he would ever settle the Trump University lawsuit: «I could have settled this case numerous times, but I don't want to settle cases when we're right.

Because of my intimate knowledge of the law and experience as to how judges decide cases, I can advise clients on how best to resolve their matter in the hopes of avoiding years of litigation.

Now, after six years of litigation — including a hard - fought appeal to the state's highest court over applicability of the defendant's insurance coverage — the trial judge has preliminarily approved a settlement of the case worth $ 1.8 million.

With over ten years of litigation experience, Daniela Pavuk has in recent years focused her practice on employment - related matters, including wage and hour disputes, discrimination charges, and wrongful termination matters in administrative proceedings (the Human Rights Bureau, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and Unemployment Insurance Division) and in courts on the state and federal level in Montana and North Dakota.

With over 26 years of litigation experience, Susan Fahringer counsels and defends some of the world's leading innovators in privacy, IP and complex commercial litigation.

Personal injury settlements are often preceded by years of litigation.

His years of litigation experience provides him with the perspective to tell the parties if they are taking an unreasonable position, a skill that is helpful in coming to the resolution of complex matters.

Fred Eisenberg, Kenneth Rothweiler and Todd Schoenhaus reached a $ 9 million settlement with a trucking company after two years of litigation, a mediation, and with trial set to begin in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas.