Sentences with phrase «in settlement talks»

Wells Fargo is said to be in settlement talks with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) over mortgage lending and auto insurance abuses.
At Lerner and Rowe Injury Attorneys, our legal team will zealously advocate on your behalf in a court of law, engage in settlement talks and never back down.
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As of now, Apple has not participated in any settlement talks with the DOJ so it might be looking to fight this out in court.
Such a hammer would have strengthened the city's hand in any settlement talks.
«Democratic elected officials across the country supported it,» he said of the fees paid to the law firms involved in the settlement talks.
Waymo asked for $ 1 billion in settlement talks last year, but Uber's board members rejected that.

Not exact matches

I know this may sound crazy, but we traced when the ice broke in regard to the settlement talks back to around the time I started speaking in a more gentile, Southern manner.
While the agency has not sued JPMorgan, the enforcement unit began drafting charges after settlement talks broke down in recent weeks, people briefed on the case said.
For instance, one point of contention in the current talks is NAFTA's chapter 19, titled «Review and Dispute Settlement in Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Matters.»
But, I think there is a differential settlement likely to happen with Brexit [in Liverpool and Manchester] and David Davis has been gracious and understanding in that we need to be able to talk to him about the fears we have.»
After two failed rounds of settlement talks in which Singer made a rare personal appearance, Arconic ultimately agreed to add three of Elliott's four picks to its board.
The New York Times on Tuesday reported the existence of the mortgage settlement talks, including one discussion in which a roughly $ 20 billion fine was briefly floated.
Gawker Media Group is engaged in preliminary talks with the former professional wrestler Hulk Hogan to reach a settlement over a $ 140 million court judgment that led the company to file for bankruptcy protection, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday.
While the deal takes some pressure off Spotify, it has already been criticized as details of the settlement talks — ostensibly private and confidential — were leaked widely in recent weeks.
The new chief of the Bank for International Settlements does not look favorably on cryptocurrencies and in a recent talk, he encouraged regulators to intervene in digital asset markets.
October 11, 2017 — As the debate over investor protections was heating up with the start of the fourth round of NAFTA talks in Washington, D.C., US, Mexican and Canadian civil society organizations delivered over 400,000 petitions to Capitol Hill demanding that NAFTA's expansive corporate rights and protections and Investor - State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) be eliminated during -LSB-...]
October 11, 2017 — As the debate over investor protections was heating up with the start of the fourth round of NAFTA talks in Washington, D.C., US, Mexican and Canadian civil society organizations delivered over 400,000 petitions to Capitol Hill demanding that NAFTA's expansive corporate rights and protections and Investor - State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) be eliminated during renegotiations.
In fact, just the possible cost of a legal defense can force a diocese into settlement talks.
Held Evans seems to be willing to talk in order to try to arrive at a mutual understanding, or at least a mutual settlement where both allow for the position of the other in order to preserve the union.
Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti's claim at the start of August that they were «in talks to find a solution» to the transfer angered Tottenham manager Andre Villas - Boas, but the clubs have now reached a settlement.
The Park District's attorney has indicated he has been involved in settlement discussions before U.S. District Judge Ruben Castillo, and that those talks have included a possible permanent suspension of shooting activities in the park.
The permit is seen as a linchpin in the dispute after Naperville and the Park District in May pulled out of settlement talks with attorneys for Stone.
These peace talks started in a crooked way because they did not meet the most fundamental Palestinian requirement: a complete freeze on settlement activity.
That this House notes that ISIL poses a direct threat to the United Kingdom; welcomes United Nations Security Council Resolution 2249 which determines that ISIL constitutes an «unprecedented threat to international peace and security» and calls on states to take «all necessary measures» to prevent terrorist acts by ISIL and to «eradicate the safe haven they have established over significant parts of Iraq and Syria»; further notes the clear legal basis to defend the UK and our allies in accordance with the UN Charter; notes that military action against ISIL is only one component of a broader strategy to bring peace and stability to Syria; welcomes the renewed impetus behind the Vienna talks on a ceasefire and political settlement; welcomes the Government's continuing commitment to providing humanitarian support to Syrian refugees; underlines the importance of planning for post-conflict stabilisation and reconstruction in Syria; welcomes the Government's continued determination to cut ISIL's sources of finance, fighters and weapons; notes the requests from France, the US and regional allies for UK military assistance; acknowledges the importance of seeking to avoid civilian casualties, using the UK's particular capabilities; notes the Government will not deploy UK troops in ground combat operations; welcomes the Government's commitment to provide quarterly progress reports to the House; and accordingly supports Her Majesty's Government in taking military action, specifically airstrikes, exclusively against ISIL in Syria; and offers its wholehearted support to Her Majesty's Armed Forces.
In this first talk, Al Jazeera's Mehdi Hassan interviewed the outgoing head of the Yesha Council, Dani Dayan on the subject of Israeli settlements and the prospect for peace between Israel and Palestine.
There must be agreement on the issue in order to free up millions of dollars in federal education that is due to the state, so the governor has threatened to propose his own teacher evaluation system if the talks do not produce a settlement.
Following publication of the IMC report last Wednesday, Tony Blair said that while some issues, such as policing, still remained, «the door is now open to a final settlement, which is why the talks next week in Scotland are going to be so important».
And I don't think people should judge Jeremy for trying to talk to people who might be open to a settlement in Northern Ireland», said Thornberry.
«That this house notes that ISIL poses a direct threat to the United Kingdom; welcomes United Nations Security Council Resolution 2249 which determines that ISIL constitutes an «unprecedented threat to international peace and security» and calls on states to take «all necessary measures» to prevent terrorist acts by ISIL and to «eradicate the safe haven they have established over significant parts of Iraq and Syria»; further notes the clear legal basis to defend the UK and our allies in accordance with the UN Charter; notes that military action against ISIL is only one component of a broader strategy to bring peace and stability to Syria; welcomes the renewed impetus behind the Vienna talks on a ceasefire and political settlement; welcomes the Government's continuing commitment to providing humanitarian support to Syrian refugees; underlines the importance of planning for post-conflict stabilisation and reconstruction in Syria; welcomes the Government's continued determination to cut ISIL's sources of finance, fighters, and weapons; notes the requests from France, the US and regional allies for UK military assistance; acknowledges the importance of seeking to avoid civilian causalities; using the UK's particular capabilities; notes the Government's will not deploy UK troops in ground combat operations; welcomes the Government's commitment to provide quarterly progress reports to the House; and accordingly supports Her Majesty's Government in taking military action, specifically airstrikes, exclusively against ISIL in Syria; and offers its wholehearted support to Her Majesty's Armed Forces.»
In an interview with public radio, NYS Attorney General Eric Schneiderman talks about the mortgage foreclosure settlement reached with some major banks.
Energy marketing firms trying to protect their ability to sell natural gas and electricity to utility customers in New York are urging regulators to begin closed - door settlement talks that could end their protracted battle over new energy sales standards.
Some argue that carefully targeted strikes against the regime's military assets — air defences, command and control centres, and bases of Assad's elite Republican Guards — could weaken the regime sufficiently to engage in meaningful talks aimed at a political settlement.
After Ms Lumley pursued him around the studio, the pair held an impromptu press conference in which she pressured him into agreeing to further talks over the settlement rights of Gurkhas.
WAMC's David Guistina talks with Mike Spain of the Times Union about a federal investigation into payments made to Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver by a small law firm and Albany County legislature rejecting a proposed settlement in a federal civil rights lawsuit about the county under representing minorities in the redistricting plan.
In a short ruling, Justice Hassan said since settlement talks had «broken down,» the EFCC was at liberty to call its first witness.
February 18, 2018 • NPR correspondent Jason Beaubien talks about his trip to the teeming refugee settlements in Bangladesh.
She was a divorced mom of three with few employment prospects who talked her way into a job at a law firm, began an investigation on her own initiative and played a key role in a pollution suit that cost Pacific Gas & Electric a $ 333 million settlement.
Variety Amber Heard donates her entire divorce settlement from Johnny Depp to charity Pajiba... she also apparently passed on receiving residuals from his movies Monkey See funny talk about the new Ben - Hur and the long shadow of its 1959 Best Picture predecessor Kenneth in the (212) alerts us to a new webseries on Woody Allen movies.
June 28, 2016 • NPR's Robert Siegel talks to Matt Welch, a Volkswagen dealer in Auburn, Washington, after the company announced a settlement related to its emissions scandal.
Asked if the higher pricing of e-books, in the wake of publishers» new agency agreements with Amazon, had also figured in the slowdown of e-book sales, Reidy noted that in the wake of publisher settlements over e-book price - fixing charges in the case with Apple, «I'm not supposed talk about pricing,» but added that «our data says that our pricing is effective.»
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We talked with the B&N legal team last week about the recent DOJ case involving the big six publishers and Apple, I talk about one of the motions in court they are filing to stop the settlement from the three companies that bowed out of the court case a few months ago.
These articles were worth reading; they came to my attention in the last week or so: «E-books settlement talks advancing — sources» by Diane Bartz, Reuters «The Missing 20th Century: How Copyright Protection Makes Books Vanish» by Rebecca J. Rosen, The Atlantic «The Rise of e-reading» at PewInternet — a long... Read more»
Several media outlets however caution that the «talks» are simply about eBook pricing in light of the recent DOJ settlement.
These articles were worth reading; they came to my attention in the last week or so: «E-books settlement talks advancing — sources» by Diane Bartz, Reuters
By Edward Nawotka Our cheat sheet to some of this week's most talked about publishing news: Google Book Settlement Rejected by Judge, Publishers Mixed After 18 months of deliberation in court, an American judge has ruled against the Google Book Settlement, saying that it would give Google an unfair monopoly.
While this is not related to hate, it did remind me of the April 2013 article in insidearm.com that talked about why 50 % of collectors surveyed said they did not «engage debt settlement providers.»
In fact, by the time you talk settlement with your creditors, much of the damage to your credit score has likely already been done.
In fact, the debt settlement company will advise you to stop talking to your creditors and collectors.
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