Sentences with phrase «lead plaintiff in the suit»

Teresa Meredith, vice president of the Indiana State Teachers Association, is the lead plaintiff in the suit.

Bridgeport resident Jessica Martinez, whose son Jose is the lead plaintiff in the suit, is fed up with losing the school - choice lottery and being unable to get her 13 - year - old son into a high - performing magnet or charter school.

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Henry was named the lead plaintiff among 61 retirees in a suit against Structured Investments in 2005.

When news broke in 2015 of Volkswagen's massive diesel emissions - cheating scandal, Hagens Berman was the first firm in the nation to file suit against the automaker for its egregious fraud, going on to represent thousands of owners in litigation and take a leading role on the Plaintiffs» Steering Committee that would finalize a $ 14.7 billion, record - breaking settlement for owners.

Lead plaintiff and Democratic mayoral challenger Sal Albanese said he and his fellow plaintiffs — Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa and Staten Island political activist Frank Morano — plan to unveil the suit at a Monday news conference outside of the former Tweed Courthouse in Lower Manhattan.

Plaintiffs in the Robles case are the California School Boards Association, the state PTA, the association of California School Administrators, the California Teachers Association, the Youth & Education Law Project at Stanford Law School and 60 individuals, including the lead plaintiff, Maya Robles - Wong, who was a junior at Alameda High School when the suits were filed.

A number of legal bloggers roundly condemned Jones Day for bringing the suit, with Public Citizen lawyer Paul Alan Levy leading the backlash with his post at the Consumer Law & Policy Blog in which he said that the lawsuit deserved a prize for «grossest abuse of trademark law to suppress speech the plaintiff doesn't like.»

Lead trial counsel for plaintiffs in both the preliminary and final injunction hearings of Evans v. Romer, a successful suit challenging the constitutionality of a widely - publicized amendment to Colorado's constitution that would have prohibited any legislation protecting against discrimination based on sexual orientation; case received nationwide press coverage in broadcast and print media, including live coverage on Court TV, and was ultimately decided in plaintiffs» favor in the U. S. Supreme Court.

In a release, Juroviesky and Ricci LLP says the suit, which has yet to name a lead plaintiff, alleges «class - wide violations of various statutory and common law duties to the students of York University.»

Plaintiff alleged in the civil suit that the child sustained massive head injuries and died as a result of alleged abuse by the parents, codefendants in the civil case, and that the psychologists were negligent in failing to suspect the abuse and neglect which ultimately led to his death.

Thankfully, CBC also reports that brave Ottawa resident Eliot Shore has stepped forward as the representative plaintiff in a class - action suit led by Charney Lawyers and Sutts, Strosberg.

Evan Stark, a leading researcher, and scholar in the domestic violence field, and lead expert for the plaintiff mothers in Nicholson v. Williams, a successful class action suit, [note 7] states that «it has been known for some time that men are the overwhelming perpetrators where children are severely injured or killed, accounting for up to 80 % of severe injury and child fataility in some studies [citing a major Florida study]; and «that where men are present, they are far more likely than women to be the source of children's injuries;» and that «there is no debate about who is the major source of child sexual abuse.»