Sentences with phrase «lawsuits against the municipalities»

WIRE brought lawsuits against the Municipalities in order to force them to share their data.

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Some of you might have read about the lawsuit by a number of municipalities (including San Francisco and Oakland) against the major oil companies for damages (related primarily to sea level rise) caused by anthropogenic climate change.

Lake in the Hills still has possession of approximately 8 acres of land that Hoffman donated last year as part of an attempt to sell the entire 258 - acre farm to that municipality, which has a pending condemnation lawsuit against the property.

The city of Syracuse is among more than 30 cities, municipalities and organizations across the United States that are on a legal brief known as amicus brief in a lawsuit filed by Chicago against Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

Last month, three Colorado municipalities — the City and County of Boulder and the County of San Miguel — filed a lawsuit against ExxonMobil and Suncor, blaming them for the impacts of climate change.

But in an unanticipated twist, the report also demonstrates how the municipalities may have exaggerated the risks of climate change in their lawsuits against fossil fuel companies.

«We filed a lawsuit against the decision, and we won, but the municipality allowed settlement in the region despite the court ruling.»

We represent individuals and professionals, municipalities and their agencies, business entities, trucking companies, insurers and their insureds from claims and lawsuits for catastrophic losses and personal injuries, civil rights, construction losses and contracts, employment related practices, property damage and wrongful death arising from the transportation function and commercial motor vehicle activity; the ownership, use and control of land (including environmentally related or toxic exposure claims); the design, manufacture, sale or use of industrial and consumer products; and liability claims against licensed professionals, including lawyers, engineers, accountants and architects, in the States of Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

In recent months, the steady drumbeat of climate change litigation has grown increasingly louder as municipalities in California and New York have filed lawsuits against some of the historically...

You may be able to file a lawsuit against the owner of the road, such as a municipality, on the basis of negligence if you can show (1) it owed you a duty of reasonable care, (2) it breached that duty, (3) the breach was the proximate cause of the accident, and (4) damages resulted.

If a municipality has caused your accident, you should report the accident to them in writing within two months and may need to start a lawsuit against them within six months or else your claim could be barred.

Robinson + Cole successfully defended a Connecticut municipality in a lawsuit brought by a contractor against the municipality.

There is a shortened statute of limitations for claims against municipalities — lawsuits against a government entity, such as the Highway Department — and you need to file a notice of claim within 90 days.

He's not accused of bad lawyering (he hasn't been practicing since becoming mayor in 2000), but of being discourteous to the bench in media interviews in connection with a particularly contentious lawsuit brought by the municipality against the province for a greater share of equilization funds.

A federal appellate court has considered whether a software company which provides software support to local municipalities could bring a copyright infringement lawsuit against a company owned by a multiple listing service when the company attempted to obtain property tax assessment information contained in a software program developed by the software company.

Following the filing of WIRE's lawsuits, the Vendor brought a lawsuit against WIRE alleging copyright infringement and theft of trade secrets, and sought to prevent WIRE from forcing the Municipalities to allow access to their databases.