Sentences with phrase «lawsuit brought upon»

If the appeal is granted by the Second Circuit, this would invalidate the class action lawsuit brought upon by the Authors Guild, effectively giving Google the win.

In a recent article we explained the background of an earlier lawsuit brought upon the Town's taxpayers by the unlawful actions of the suspended Chief Sullivan and his Machiavellian subordinate who headed the Rockland County Strategic Intelligence Unit, Stephen Cole - Hatchard.

Not exact matches

Then in December, Mr. Bharara formally joined a lawsuit, Nunez v. City of New York, brought by the Legal Aid Society to end «unnecessary and excessive force inflicted upon inmates.»

If, instead of bringing counterclaims in the original lawsuit, the defendant brings a separate lawsuit against the plaintiff, the plaintiff could seek to either (1) consolidate the cases if they are filed in the same court system (i.e. a federal case and a federal case, or a New York State case and a New York State case), or (2) move to dismiss the new lawsuit because the claims were required to be brought in the original lawsuit as mandatory counterclaims, or (3) move to stay proceedings in the second lawsuit pending resolution of the first lawsuit, or (4) move to dismiss the claims in the second lawsuit on the merits if it is apparent from the face of the countersuit that it does not state a claim upon which relief can be granted or was filed in the wrong court.

According to the legislation, if a party to an arbitration agreement starts a lawsuit instead of proceeding with an arbitration, the Court will stay that proceeding upon motion brought by the other party to the arbitration agreement.

The successful defense of an oil company in a lawsuit brought by the U.S. Department of Justice under the Clean Water Act and the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 to recover clean up costs associated with an oil spill upon the navigable waters of the United States.

This act is a simple, important change that would help deter patent trolls from bringing egregious lawsuits upon businesses and innovators.

Looking at the New York real estate license law, the court found that no one could bring a lawsuit seeking a payment «for services rendered... in the buying, selling, exchanging, leasing, renting or negotiating loan upon any real estate without [being]... a duly licensed real estate broker or real estate salesman on the date the cause of action arose.»