Sentences with phrase «in the legal battles of»

When Sharlene Boltz and Christo Lassiter aren't teaching the next generation of lawyers, they are engaged in a legal battle of epic proportions.

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Some of it has been hidden from the public - the nightly legal battles to keep defamatory stories out of papers; her mother having to struggle past photographers in order to get to her front door; the attempts of reporters and photographers to gain illegal entry to her home and the calls to police that followed; the substantial bribes offered by papers to her ex-boyfriend; the bombardment of nearly every friend, co-worker, and loved one in her life.

After a seven - year legal battle, European authorities came down hard on Google on Tuesday for taking advantage of its dominance in online searches to direct customers to its own businesses, fining the tech giant a record 2.42 billion euros ($ 2.72 billion) and raising the prospect of more.

Citing concerns about giving Google «a significant advantage over competitors,» a New York federal judge shot down a settlement that would permit Google to make millions of books accessible online — the latest setback in the Internet behemoth's six - year - long legal battle over its digital library.

«Rather than engage in endless legal battles at taxpayer expense, today I signed an executive order to dissolve the Commission, and have asked the Department of Homeland Security to review these issues and determine next courses of action,» Trump said in a statement.

In the latest twist in the legal battle, Ripple filed a counterclaim in New York state court that accuses R3 of signing the deal in bad faith, and using the partnership to steal its expertise in order to develop a competing producIn the latest twist in the legal battle, Ripple filed a counterclaim in New York state court that accuses R3 of signing the deal in bad faith, and using the partnership to steal its expertise in order to develop a competing producin the legal battle, Ripple filed a counterclaim in New York state court that accuses R3 of signing the deal in bad faith, and using the partnership to steal its expertise in order to develop a competing producin New York state court that accuses R3 of signing the deal in bad faith, and using the partnership to steal its expertise in order to develop a competing producin bad faith, and using the partnership to steal its expertise in order to develop a competing producin order to develop a competing product.

The survey, which polled 1,002 U.S. adults, also highlighted the fact that the DOJ and Apple legal battle has become a hot topic in the public sphere, with 75 % of respondents saying they have heard a lot about it since the news came out last week.

The results of the poll were released late on Monday, in the middle of a legal battle between Apple and the U.S. Justice Department over a judge's order that Apple write new software to disable passcode protection on the iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino, California shooters.

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 5 - A jury in a trade - secrets lawsuit heard its first earful Monday as opening statements began in a bitter legal battle between Waymo and Uber Technologies Inc that has captivated Silicon Valley and could help determine who emerges in the forefront of the fast - growing field of autonomous cars.

Apple, with the support of the entire tech industry behind it, successfully swayed public opinion in March in its legal battle against the Department of Justice.

The upshot: Tory and Chris announced a settlement of their legal battles in December 2012.

This is very bad news for the two companies and for their customers in New York, but it is by no means the end of the legal battle.

The offers were revealed in court documents lodged with the New York Supreme Court relating to an ongoing legal battle between Mill Financial, who tried and failed to buy Liverpool, and Gillett and the Royal Bank of Scotland.

The legal battle is over whether subsidies that are key to the implementation of the 2010 Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare, should be available in all 50 states or only in some.

TEMPE, Ariz. — The family of a woman killed by an Uber self - driving vehicle in Arizona has reached a settlement with the ride services company, ending a potential legal battle over the first fatality caused by an autonomous vehicle.

The billionaire media mogul's health has also become an issue in part because of a legal battle triggered by one of those ex-girlfriends, Manuela Herzer.

You can pull any image you find in a Google Image Search, but if the person who owns the rights to it complains, you can find your blog at the center of a legal battle you certainly can't afford.

On June 24th, Frontier Communications filed an amicus brief on behalf of AT&T in AT&T's legal battle with the city of Louisville, Kentucky.

The case's settlement comes in the midst of rival Uber's own similar legal battle.

The constant flurry of complaints between the two companies underscores how their patent battles aren't coming to an end anytime soon — even though both companies have suffered legal losses in previous face - offs against one another.

He's still executive chairman of Qualcomm's board, keeping him in the loop on all the mobile chipmaker's upcoming technologies, products, and legal battles, including recent lawsuits with Apple.

A Massachusetts man has reached a settlement in a legal battle with Dunkin' Donuts franchises over the bakery's use of fake butter on his bagels.

The board of Viacom Inc. is considering whether to cut the pay of Chairman Emeritus Sumner Redstone, people familiar with the matter say, in the wake of a legal battle that highlighted the ailing mogul's health problems.

His background in battles over executive privilege is also likely to be one of the central lines of any legal battles with Mueller and Congress if either the House of Senate ends up in Democratic control.

A key document in Alphabet's legal battle against Uber reveals that a former Alphabet executive had a trove of data on Alphabet's self - driving car technology and accessed some of the files after he left the company.

Beyond the battle over at least the temporary future of the CFPB lies a legal question: Which federal law decides who will lead the CFPB — the Federal Vacancies Reform Act, which gives the president the ability to fill many open positions in the executive branch, or the Dodd - Frank financial reform that created the bureau in the first place?

In the latest fallout from the oil sands euphoria - gone - bust, a legal battle has erupted between three of Canada's most important energy companies.

The chain is in the middle of a legal battle with Macy's, which sued media and merchandising company Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia for breaching an exclusive contract when Martha Stewart signed a deal with Penney in December 2011 to open shops at most of its stores this spring.

Alphabet's self - driving arm, Waymo, and Uber gave their opening statements in front of a jury on Monday, commencing the courtroom phase of what has already been a messy legal battle.

Dauman and Shari Redstone, the daughter of controlling shareholder and former chairman Sumner Redstone, are currently embroiled in a high - stakes legal battle over control of the 93 - year - old media mogul's companies.

Uber is currently embroiled in a legal battle with Waymo, the self - driving car unit of Alphabet, Google's parent company.

The Ontario Court of Appeal has upheld a decision that a lawyer must personally pay the legal costs of a hospital and a doctor involved in a legal battle with her, over her attempt to remove a client from life support, saying she was «intent on achieving her own personal objective.»

This would make it an even bigger thorn on the side of Uber, which is in a legal battle with Alphabet's self - driving unit Waymo.

Sands is in a much stronger position to expand in Japan than its rival Wynn, which is hobbled by a weaker MICE position, a bruising legal battle with former vice chairman Kazuo Okuda over bribery allegations in the Philippines, and the recent downfall of founder Steve Wynn.

As the last witness for the defense in the Justice Department's legal battle against AT&T's $ 85.4 billion deal to buy Time Warner, Mr. Stephenson portrayed the 140 - year - old phone giant as being in an existential crisis and in need of the deal with Time Warner to compete against tech companies.

Take over from a visionary founder whose play for world domination is only half finished (and who is still a majority owner by votes), fix a broken workplace culture, win an existential race (and legal battle) to develop autonomous vehicles, and find a way to turn a profit in a business that has lost billions of dollars a year.

Next up in the fiduciary rule legal battle is the preliminary injunction requested by insurer Market Synergy on Sept. 21 before Judge Daniel D. Crabtree in the District of Kansas, which Sweeney says is «historically a more hostile venue» for the DOL.

The Post's Brian Fung and Sari Horwitz: «Justice Department officials told AT&T that its $ 85 billion bid to acquire Time Warner is unlikely to be approved without major changes, a move that is driving the two sides toward a high - stakes legal battle over one of the biggest media deals in history.

The acquisition was part of the larger change in control trend that has defined Canada's marijuana industry recently, with companies battling to gain market share before marijuana sales become legal later this year.

His skepticism over Uber's knowledge of files Levandowski reportedly stole is the latest development in a legal battle pitting Google and Uber head - to - head, each intent to win the race to autonomous technology.

Think of the Daniels - versus - Trump legal battle as, so far, a three - month - long epic saga set in 2018 in, partly, Washington, D.C. — a hard town full of hard people (and a smutty sheriff, so to speak).

After a seven - year legal battle, European authorities came down hard on Google on Tuesday for taking advantage of its dominance in online searches to direct customers to its own businesses, fining the tech giant a record 2.42 billion euros ($ 2.72 billion)...

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The ruling is a win for the American Civil Liberties Union in its ongoing legal battle with the Office of Refugee Resettlement.

Some thoughtful analysts, including some pro-life advocates, have suggested that the legal battle to end abortion has at last ended in defeat with this report of an apparently effective and safe medical form of abortion.

Alfie Evans, the toddler whose treatment for a terminal illness was at the center of a legal battle in the UK for the past couple weeks, died this weekend.

The legal battle to ban abortion, however, is not by any means defeated with this report of a medical abortifacient, and it may in fact be helped.

Our first instinct in the legal battles spawned by the progressive excesses of the last few years is to reach for the free exercise clause, which after all exists to protect religious people's ability to live out their faiths in practice.

In February 2012, at the height of the battle over the HHS mandate, William Thierfelder, the president of Belmont Abbey College, was interviewed by the Washington Post about the school's legal fight against the mandate.

But now the legal battles against the HHS employer contraceptive mandate are shifting to very different questions of personhood: Are for - profit corporations «persons» in such a legal sense that they have religious rights?