Sentences with phrase «lawyers put a stop to it»

In 2015, the film was finally to hit the festival circuit — first Telluride then Toronto — but Franklin's lawyers put a stop to it being shown, stating that the artist hasn't given her consent to use her name and likeness.

I need to know so I can have some lawyers put a stop to this illegal behavior.

Not exact matches

Money-wise I think I did better on my own... Education-wise, possibly I learned more from working with others... Although much of what I learned from others were negative lessons I could have avoided by not putting my work in jeopardy in the first place... By jeopardy, I mean leaving valuable things in a rental space where the gallery owner failed to pay rent - causing me to learn about lawyers & bailiffs & landlords seizing contents to try to sell my work to get their rent money... (you can't sell consignment work to recoup rent money but that doesn't stop them from trying)...

Some great pit stops include Enrico Schaefer's post discussing how the billable hour puts a lawyer's interests at odds with those of his client, a post at Techdirt on a recent decision forcing Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) to pay legal fees for litigants it wrongly sued and Nicole Black's post mortem on the Duke lacrosse rape case, along with a video that sums up the case.

We routinely report scams constituting crimes to law enforcement agencies, but it is impossible for us to completely put a stop to the use of our name and the names of our lawyers for this purpose.

Sam Glover: Drinking from the fire hose is something that lots of lawyers do, or constantly running around like your hairs on fire, putting out fires, and they never stop to think okay how can I improve this, how can I make this better?

• It should provide a speedy and cheap method to stop lawsuits if those suits were brought for an improper purpose, namely to harass or intimidate the defendants; • It should put the onus on plaintiffs to prove that their lawsuits were not improper; • It should help rebalance an inequality of financial resources between the parties, possibly by an order that the plaintiff should pay the defendants» costs at the outset of the litigation; • It should provide stronger legal protection for citizens engaged in public participation, such as through special defences; • It should deter people from bringing such suits in the first place, by exposing plaintiffs, and possibly their directors and officers, and lawyers, to awards of damages or even punitive damages.

Please help this mother and her children and stop Lawyers and Judges from, I will put it politely, being unfair and unjust, among other things I rather not say, to being impartial and fair (listened to all involved and reviewing all evidence) like they are suppose to do before rulling, another way of saying it, do an honest job of the Oath they took.