Sentences with phrase «in protracted legal battles»

A legal action fund to promote sector - wide interests in the Bay Area and to engage in lawsuits around Prop 39 and other barriers to growth could benefit all charter schools, especially the small schools that don't have the resources to engage in protracted legal battles.

This meeting comes as Perry has been in a protracted legal battle to buy a Los Angeles convent.

Settlement privilege is the main issue in the latest move in a protracted legal battle between St. Anne's Indian residential school survivors and the Crown.

It may even result in bankruptcy, particularly if a lack of prenuptial agreements, shareholder agreements or buy - sell agreements results in a protracted legal battle over assets.

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The Working Families Party is celebrating the end of a protracted legal battle over its efforts in the 2009 NYC elections that lead to the demise of its for - profit arm, Data & Field Services, but ultimately resulted in no charges against the labor - backed party.

After a protracted legal battle, the university agreed in 2012 to return the skeletons to the nearby Kumeyaay tribe, which claimed them.

Chuck's interrogation of Dollar Bill does not go as planned, and political pressure mounts for him to recuse himself in the face of a protracted legal battle.

A protracted legal battle between the California Charter Schools Association (CCSA) and L.A. Unified began in May 2007.

In 2006, Villaraigosa tried taking control of the governance of LA Unified but failed after a protracted political and legal battle.

Noting that it «faced legal challenges on five separate fronts,» it said it «made a business decision to settle the DOJ investigation in order to end a potentially protracted legal battle.»

In statements released today, Hachette and HarperCollins admitted to no wrongdoing and said they settled reluctantly, in order to avoid protracted legal battles and high court costs that, in the words of Hachette, would be «too disruptive to our business.&raquIn statements released today, Hachette and HarperCollins admitted to no wrongdoing and said they settled reluctantly, in order to avoid protracted legal battles and high court costs that, in the words of Hachette, would be «too disruptive to our business.&raquin order to avoid protracted legal battles and high court costs that, in the words of Hachette, would be «too disruptive to our business.&raquin the words of Hachette, would be «too disruptive to our business.»

The application of the «real and substantial connection» test for enforcement of foreign judgments was further clarified by the Ontario Court of Appeal in a recent decision, part of a bitter and protracted legal battle over nearly $ 10 billion in environmental damages caused by the operations of Texaco (later acquired by the defendant Chevron) in Ecuador.

I'm only critical of personal injury lawyers who strive to create lengthy medico - legal expert witness battles that give rise to protracted litigation thus further driving up litigation costs — or who fail to challenge even completely unqualified insurer defence «experts» because by purging them from the system there loss would result in far less (predictable) accusations of opportunistic malingering requiring litigation.

And all the while, through the years of protracted legal battles trying to prove «parental alienation» in Court, the child's symptoms become ever more severely entrenched, so that recovering the authentic child becomes increasingly difficult even if there is a positive outcome in Court.

When you think of separating or divorcing, the images that likely come to mind are scenes from movies: fighting, out - of - control emotions, spiraling financial costs, a protracted legal battle, and someone in a black robe making decisions that will impact you and your family for years to come.