Sentences with phrase «lawsuits against industries»

Since Bookbinder is both currently a litigator in a set of global warming lawsuits against industries which supposedly paid «shill scientists» to lie, and was involved in a similar way back in 2010 as the Mother Jones article points out, those are relevant questions to ask.

Subjecting brokers to a fiduciary duty, a standard that now applies to professional money managers, will lead to more lawsuits against the industry and add burdensome compliance requirements, industry groups argue.

The Competition Bureau has twice in the last three years brought frivolous lawsuits against our industry and we watched without an individual vote as a handful of CREA delegates voted to allow private sale postings on the MLS ® Systems.

Not exact matches

The National Venture Capital Association, an industry group of top U.S. venture capitalists, filed a lawsuit on Tuesday in Washington D.C. District Court against the Trump Administration, alleging it illegally delayed an immigration program created during President Obama's term.

While the industry has been evolving for several years, lawsuits against advisors and plan providers have picked up speed in the last few years, according to Conor Weir, managing director and a financial consultant at Retirement Benefits Group.

One of the organizers of a lawsuit against cryptocurrency information and wallet provider Bitcoin.com says he hopes to gain donations to fight fraud across the industry.

In February 2010, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney filed a lawsuit against five advisors who had jumped ship for HighTower, claiming that the advisors had violated industry protocols.

In a statement about the decision, the OTA, which will continue with its lawsuit, said the comment period showed the rule is «overwhelmingly supported» by the organic industry and the public — 72,000 comments for the rule to 50 against, to be exact.

Shortly afterward, four food industry organizations filed a lawsuit against the state that challenged the law's constitutionality.

«In his prior political offices, Eliot Spitzer brought junk lawsuits which seldom held up in court against New York's leading industries for his own political gain, to the detriment of the citizens of New York; he misused the powers of his offices to «steamroll» legitimate political opposition, and acted with calculated hypocrisy, signing tougher penalties into law for the very crimes he was committing.

Schneiderman today joined a coalition of 14 attorneys general and the City of Chicago in filing a motion to intervene in a lawsuit against EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's actions to halt regulation of leaks of greenhouse gas emissions and other harmful air pollutants from new sources in the oil and gas industry.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo wants to have it his way with New York's fast - food industry — and restaurant owners aren't loving it.Franchise owners say they're considering a lawsuit against Cuomo's plan to raise the minimum wage in their eateries to $ 15 an hour,...

Assemblyman Erik Dilan, a Brooklyn Democrat with ties to the legal industry, has introduced legislation to compete with a proposal that would limit interest rates on cash advances against lawsuit settlements.

He says Schneiderman was too quick to try to file lawsuits against the drilling industry.

The lawsuit and suspensions are the latest in a wave of sexual harassment scandals that have led to firings and resignations of powerful men across a number of industries after a New York Times investigation into accusations of sexual harassment and abuse against the Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein.

Critics compared the legal - financing industry to mob loan - sharking and modern - day slavery during a hearing Wednesday into the controversial practice of paying plaintiffs cash in advance against potential lawsuit settlements.

Spencer said two counties in California and the City of Chicago have filed similar lawsuits in Federal court against drug companies Purdue Pharma L.P., The Purdue Frederick Company, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries LTD., Cephalon Inc., Johnson and Johnson, Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Endo Health Solutions Inc., and Actavis PLC..

Last December, the Physicians Committee filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services claiming the agencies work in concert with the dairy industry to promote milk products through official dietary guidelines.

Over the years they have gained access to, analyzed, and categorized millions of pages of documents, many of which have contributed to lawsuits against the chemical industry.

Under Mr. Dooley's tenure ACC also secured the «Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act,» providing industry a safe harbor against lawsuits when voluntarily sharing & receiving info on cyber threats & defenses.

June 14, 2016 • The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit rejected a lawsuit by telecom, cable and wireless industry associations against new rules that expanded federal oversight of Internet service providers.

The life of comic book industry icon Stan Lee continues to be a complicated one, as he's now filed a $ 1 billion lawsuit against POW!

The previous round of CAFE talks, which dates back to 2007 when the industry dropped its lawsuits against California's proposed emissions standards and set the table for the combined fuel economy and CO2 federal rules, brought auto makers to the front lines in the war against climate change.

A US judge is still in the process of handling the DOJ lawsuit against Apple — along with five of the then - Big Six publishers — for conspiring to raise the price of ebooks in order to impact the market share that Amazon held over the industry.

Earlier this year, the owners of The Book House of Stuyvesant Plaza in Albany, N.Y., Fiction Addiction in Greenville, S.C., and Posman Books in New York City, filed a lawsuit against Amazon and the publishers for both the DRM conspiracy and a separate allegation that they were in violation of the Sherman Act — the same Act that factored in an important way in the DOJ lawsuit against Apple — for trying to gain a monopoly on the industry.

The Department of Justice lawsuit against Apple and several publishers was going to end the publishing industry, and apparently so will allowing libraries to lend ebooks.

For almost a year, I've been reporting on the lawsuit filed by Ellora's Cave against romance industry blog Dear Author and its founder Jane Litte (pseudonym for Jennifer Garrish - Lampe).

«The publishing industry is united behind this lawsuit against Google and united in the fight to defend their rights,» said AAP President Patricia Schroeder.

In fact, Caldwell's speech is an argument against doing music startups, given the industry's love of lawsuits.

The payday lending industry has filed a lawsuit against the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) alleging a new rule could potentially end things for them.

National Consumer Law Center v. U.S. Department of Education, April 19, 2018, Complaint and Press Release The National Consumer Law Center filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for Massachusetts against the U.S. Department of Education for records related to its purported justification for delaying implementation of a rule to protect student loan borrowers from school fraud and abuse, including records of communications between agency officials and representatives of the for - profit college industry.

While programs advanced by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) did not attract the attention of mortgage lenders, changes in the way the industry is approaching this problem — and the high risk of class - action lawsuits against those institutions that do not act — are leading more lenders to consider moving forward with mortgage modification programs.

If you read up on the pending lawsuits against Tax Resolution firms like JK Harris, Roni Deutch etcâ $ ¦ they have similar issues of complaints the debt settlement industry had.

If you read up on the pending lawsuits against Tax Resolution firms like JK Harris, Roni Deutch etc... they have similar issues of complaints the debt settlement industry had.

Critics have argued that some tactics employed by animal advocates, including protests, risk turning public opinion against the animal advocacy movement.178 While these activities make up a small proportion of L214's work, they do organize and participate in protests and demonstrations.179 Investigations make up a larger part of L214's work and have sometimes led to a slightly different type of backlash in which industry and government respond by attempting to pass laws that target advocates, such as ag - gag legislation in the United States.180 While L214 tries to maintain good relationships with media and the government, and France does not have ag - gag laws, they have sometimes been the target of lawsuits by industry because their footage is taken without permission.181 L214 has sometimes suffered negative consequences as a result of these lawsuits, such as fines or the requirement to take footage down from their website.182, 183

Pet Industry Joint Advisory President Council Mike Bober said his organization was supporting the state - based small businesses, and he praised Christie for the conditional veto because Senate Bill 3041 «has an online reporting requirement that may be illegal — and, therefore, risks putting taxpayers on the hook for lawsuits against the state.»

Recently Capcom launched a lawsuit against Tecmo Koei over «patent infringments» and a friend of mine who has formidable knowledge of the game industry stated that they must be in worse shape than thought

The Hill also reports that the oil and gas industry is filing a lawsuit against the new rules.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio made some alarming comments on Senator Bernie Sanders» podcast this week about his recent climate lawsuit against the energy industry — comments that contradict a key part of the lawsuit itself.

Last night the Louisiana House approved a bill that retroactively kills a lawsuit by the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority - East against 97 oil and gas companies for the industry's pollution and damage to the state's wetlands.

These new lawsuits from Santa Cruz are just the latest in a long line of hypocritical complaints against the energy industry.

Supporters of the oil industry seized on Alsup's ruling as a victory against what they call «sham lawsuits.»

Lawsuits like this — filed by trial attorneys against an industry that provides products we all rely upon to power the economy and enable our domestic life — simply do not do that.»

Ayers argued at the summit that, «the RICO Act, which had been used effectively against the tobacco industry, could similarly be used to bring a lawsuit against carbon producers.»

The conference featured Richard Ayers, co-founder and current trustee of the National Resources Defense Council, who argued, «The RICO Act, which had been used effectively against the tobacco industry, could similarly be used to bring a lawsuit against carbon producers.»

That story references the Association of International Automobile Manufacturers and the «discovery process» in a lawsuit which the «auto industry filed in 2007 against the State of California's efforts to limit vehicles» greenhouse gas emissions,» noting an anonymous lawyer forwarding what was discovered to the NYT.

Closer to home, a lawsuit filed by 21 youth plaintiffs (including Kelsey Juliana) and world - renowned climate scientist James Hansen on behalf of future generations against the U.S. government cleared an important hurdle in November 2016 when federal judge Ann Aiken rejected the government and fossil fuel industries» motion to dismiss the case.

Most Popular: Lawsuits Against North Carolina Hog Farms Could Help Reform State's CAFO Industry.

Documents drawn up by the coalition's advisers were provided to lawyers by the Association of International Automobile Manufacturers, a coalition member, during the discovery process in a lawsuit that the auto industry filed in 2007 against the State of California's efforts to limit vehicles» greenhouse gas emissions.

When the Hemp Industries Association won its lawsuit against the DEA in 2004, stating that the DEA regulations can't ban hemp food products, Manitoba Harvest Hemp saw its sales grow by 1000 %.