Sentences with phrase «legal fight on»

The company launched the legal fight on Monday, submitting a complaint...

But, what happens when the fiercely competitive food and drink industry starts a legal fight on the outside?

Not exact matches

NEW YORK, April 25 - Billionaire Peter Thiel on Wednesday abandoned his effort to buy the irreverent news website Gawker.com, enabling the Silicon Valley venture capitalist to avoid a possible legal fight over his having secretly funded litigation that led to its demise.

He is also looking into whether anyone on the Trump campaign colluded with Moscow to tilt the election in his favor, and his decision to file charges likely indicates that the probe is moving from a political fight to a legal one.

FanDuel and DraftKings agreed in March to halt their business in New York, banking on a legislative path to make the games legal after a months - long fight with the state's attorney general, Eric Schneiderman.

The National Federation of Independent Business, which led the legal fight against Obamacare, has a series of nuts - and - bolts «healthcare minute» videos and articles on what employers may need to do to comply.

In a statement on the site, founder Pamela Jones cited the move by Lavabit founder Ladar Levinson to shut down his encrypted email service because of a legal fight with the government.

MZI Resources has settled a legal fight with Stirling Resources over a suite of mineral sands tenements on the Tiwi Islands and in the Northern Territory.

President Donald Trump is fighting an extraordinary legal battle in Manhattan on Monday, seeking to stop his own Justice Department from reviewing records seized from his longtime private lawyer, Michael Cohen.

Over the course of his 25 - year legal career, he has tenaciously fought for the rights of consumers, concentrating his practice on consumer lending and consumer fraud class actions.

However, the case hinges on issues the ride - hail company — which is no stranger to legal battles — has long fought across the globe: Background checks and being treated like other for - hire companies.

Importantly, that relationship has since deteriorated — and Alphabet is embroiled in an unusual and messy legal fight with Uber — after a series of conversations about working together on self - driving cars fell apart.

First, patents are often taken out to use as legal weapons by huge companies to fight off their competitors even if they do not plan on completing trials for the drug.

It's easy to pick on Christians, cause we don't «fight» back except in legal courts and a war of words.

We here in Yemen our Unity day celebration is on 22 May since 1990 to date but this time because of the troubles in the country related to changes we are threatened by the oppositions that they would make of it a bloody date marching towards the presidency to remove the president against the will of many who prefer having the president finish his legal ruling period rather than those coming to rule by coup rather than legal honest elections... Honestly what a mess we are in by those oppositions who what to take over what the youth have achieved and will be using those youth as their slaughter sheep for them to reach the ruling chair and then again when they both oppositions fight among them over it...

For decades, American evangelicals have fiercely fought any legal or cultural limits on parents» «rights» to discipline their children.

Santorum claims the USA is the shining star on the hill, but while in Europe gays can enter civil unions which are providing the same legal protection and rights as normal weddings the USA is fighting over this and call this an attack on family values.

Before we reach irreconcilable differences regarding what should be legal, our energies would be more productively spent on the common goal of reducing the number of unwanted pregnancies rather than fighting each other.

Far from clear, however, is whether any of these hard - fought legal wins represents significant progress for citizens resisting the cultural forces bent on constricting the....

And yet, the very grounds on which these controversies have been fought — arguing for the «scientific» basis of creationism, making use of the «rational - legal» procedures supplied by the modern court system, and drawing on social scientists for «expert testimony» — all point to the considerable degree to which even religious conservatives have accommodated to the norms of secular rationality.

The document provides the Justice Department's legal rationale for the controversial policy of using lethal force against U.S. citizens fighting on behalf of terrorist groups.

Meanwhile, on May 2 (fight night), Pacquiao's request to be injected with Toradol (a legal substance) to ease the pain caused by a torn rotator cuff was denied by the Nevada State Athletic Commission because the request was not made in a timely manner.

His six - game suspension of Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott may have touched off a protracted, expensive legal fight with one of the league's most influential owners that could have a far - reaching impact on the future of the NFL.

It's the company that makes much of sourcing less than 3 % of its cocoa through Fairtrade - certified suppliers, while fighting a legal battle against former child slaves who hold it responsible for their treatment on cocoa plantations in Sierra Leone.

Guardian Angels founder and WABC radio personality Curtis Sliwa says he's been treating his chronic Crohn's disease by smoking pot, and he's going to make it legal on 4/20 — the aptly chosen day he'll officially begin a medical marijuana regimen to fight the illness» nausea and pain.

Liberal Democrats have an outstanding track record on civil liberties, although their greatest champion on the issue, Chris Huhne, is currently off fighting a legal case.

An extra wrinkle in connection with this video: Alequin used to work for the man Espada ousted in the 2008 primary, former Sen. Efrain Gonzalez (who has himself been convicted on corruption charges), and is embroiled in a legal fight with Espada's son, Alejandro, who is accused of pushing the elderly blogger and breaking his camera during a campaign rally.

He has a proper understanding of the appropriate tension between the executive and the judiciary and he's got a good record fighting against cuts to citizen's legal powers, such as on judicial review and legal aid.

Time's Up — an initiative and legal defense fund fighting sexual harassment and gender inequality — has called on Cuomo to open an investigation of Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance and his office after a story in New York Magazine revealed the alleged mishandling handling of a Harvey Weinstein sexual assault case.

The Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, an organization founded to fight the ban on openly gay service members, said in a statement Wednesday afternoon that the decision «is most welcomed.»

As a dispute between the Cuomo Administration and Canadian officials over the Peace Bridge drags on, Congressman Brian Higgins believes a settlement can be reached without a long legal fight.

Cuomo fought back as hard as he could, with the campaign even bringing an unsuccessful legal challenge against Teachout based on a residency requirement.

As heroin and fentanyl send more and more victims to the morgue, prosecutors on Staten Island are leaping into largely uncharted legal terrain to fight the scourge, hoping to charge dealers with murder.

The massive wheel — adjacent to the St. George Ferry Terminal on Richmond Terrace — has hit several snags during construction including going nearly $ 300 million over budget and being embattled in a legal fight with two early investors.

He listed his priorities in the campaign against corruption in 2018 to include, organising African Youth Congresses against Corruption «in order to sensitise and engage our youth in the fight against corruption;» mobilising AU member states to implement the extant legal framework on corruption; and canvassing «for the strengthening of the criminal justice system across Africa through exchange of information and sharing best practices in the enforcement of anti-corruption laws.»

Personal legal problems forced Lauder - Frost's departure on 31 May 1992 and subsequently the club descended into in - fighting, with more departures and failed expulsion attempts resulting in huge legal bills.

Mario Cuomo spent years fighting New York state's minimum drinking age of 19 before being able to sign legislation on Dec. 1, 1985 to raise the legal drinking age to 21, according to the release.

On Wednesday, Grant went back to court seeking a ballot by ballot count from the election, claiming the voting machines didn't count some ballots for her and the legal fight at the Board of Elections is costing her votes with Kennedy less than 300 votes ahead.

Our laws if allowed to operate according to its spirit and letter, would have imposed legal limits on government's authority by guarantee us certain rights and freedom when fighting against these evil practices in our institutions but unfortunately for us, certain provisions and attitude of party apparatchiks make our leaders automatic dictators who act without limitations.

«The Trump Administration's persistent and indefensible denial of climate change — and their continued assault on actions essential to stemming its increasing devastation — is reprehensible, and I will use every available legal tool to fight their dangerous agenda.»

The Senate Democrats have turned to their former colleague, Eric Schneiderman, for assistance in their rules fight, asking the ex-senator-turned-AG for an opinion on whether the Republicans» effort to take away LG Bob Duffy's tie - breaking leadership vote is legal.

Human Rights Organisation, Legal Defence and Assistance Project had called on the federal government to boost its efforts in fighting for Nigerians on death row in foreign countries.

An eight - year legal fight over racial discrimination by New York City in a proposed Brooklyn development is expected to be settled today, after community groups and the de Blasio administration agreed on a new plan for affordable housing for the site.

Rhodes then went to Harvard Law School — «with the goal of developing the legal tools to keep fighting on behalf of those who are too often ignored by the political process,» his press release says — but has taken a leave of absence to run for Congress.

Corbyn wins bid to fight legal action aimed at stopping him getting on Labour leadership ballot

Village officials in Kiryas Joel on Friday said the decision by the Orange County Legislature to spend $ 200,000 to fight the annexation issue in court is «an irresponsible waste of taxpayer money and a cynical maneuver in direct opposition to the lawful and legal action by two democratically elected boards.»

Murray said he explained to Koch that they weren't trying to revive the fight about whether the «mosque» developers had a legal right to build there, but rather to focus on the whether the project at that location was appropriate.

They say letting lawyer Michael Avenatti join a legal fight after FBI raids on Cohen's home and office would hinder the resolution of disputes over attorney - client privilege.

The Canadian beer with the moose head on the label is taking its legal fight against an Upstate New York root beer with a moose head on its label to federal court in Syracuse this week.

Public records indicate that legal maneuvers by Small's law firm facilitated nearly $ 700,000 in anonymous lobbying spending for Pledge 2 Protect, a nonprofit founded in 2013 to fight the city government's plan to build a marine waste transfer station on the Upper East Side that would haul away garbage by barge.