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Washington, DC - Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) attorney Julie Samuels will testify on how patent trolls harm start - ups and consumers through deceptive demand letters and legal threats at a US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation hearing on Thursday, Nov. 7.

Other recipients of legal threats at the same time include Atma Singh, a former race adviser to the then Labour mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, who received a legal letter from Tell Mama after tweeting that it «gives a platform to Islamists».

Not exact matches

The very real threat of debt collectors knocking at your door, wage garnishment, offset taxes — or worse, legal action — are consequences that can pose major personal and financial damage if you've let your loans go unpaid.

Legal expense insurance gains in popularity Reinsurance takes hard look at quake threats New pressures on Errors & Omissions could mean you wind up in court KPMG chats with Top Broker about its world view How identity theft victims» information is misused RSA helps entrepreneurs get social How to wow clients with a great meal and a touch of class

It said at the time that the pool could not afford any legal threats that may arise as a result of the New York regulatory framework.

Christianity earlier was looked at as a religio licita or legal seat of Judaism but soon it gained distinction as a «religio illicita» and was considered a threat to the security of the Roman Empire.

«We believe legal cannabis poses a threat to the $ 200 billion alcoholic beverage industry in the U.S., though perhaps manageable given the rise in dual use,» Vivien Azer, a Cowen analyst who will present at the Dec. 1 Brewbound Session, noted in a recent report.

The huge march in London at the weekend was in part a roar of deep dissatisfaction at hardline policies in the UK (cuts to legal aid, threats to scrap the Human Rights Act, etc), not just a protest at Trump's divisive rhetoric and policies.

Yvette Cooper at least understood the threat to the unions and her idea of a legal challenge is worth considering.

Though the City Council overrode the veto, financial woes and legal threats from Bloomberg resulted in a compromise to add more trips during rush hour and another boat late at night.

Enck also called Attorney General Eric Schneiderman a «legal firewall» for spearheading several multi-state legal challenges to Trump, including threats to sue the President over his attempted roll - back of the Obama'administration's Clean Power Plan aimed at controlling power plant emissions in the U.S.

Olokun, a legal practitioner, who filed the application at the Federal High Court in Abuja, alleged that the senator was making murderous threats to his life through phone calls.

READ MORE Tear gas fired at Nairobi polling station amid Kenya election tensions As Kenya goes to the polls, voters fear post-election violence Kenya deports US expert who was supporting opposition candidate Threat of another violent Kenyan election looms A similar situation with a systems failure in the 2013 election led to Odinga's legal challenge at the time, though Kenya's Supreme Court ruled in favour of Kenyatta by validating the results.

The records, we feel, are very pertinent and important to governmental purposes and this act in fact would violate FOIL and the public officer's law,» said Castorina at a press conference outside the Richmond County Courthouse, recalling Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito's defiant response to the threat of legal action last week.

But the very threat of such legal action could be enough to get people at the bottom and middle of the chain to share what they know, so prosecutors can work their way up.

But they say Hare's use of legal threats has at best subverted the peer review process that is the crux of modern scientific progress, and could at worst encourage junior researchers in the field of forensic psychology to pursue other lines of research.

In recent years, an increasing number of scientists in politically and ideologically sensitive fields have become targets of hate e-mails, death threats, campaigns aimed at discrediting them and their entire field, and legal battles.

«Given that wild felids are globally in danger of extinction through poaching, trophy hunting, and other threats, maintaining strong legal protections for these species is critical,» says Anna Frostic, senior attorney at the Humane Society.

Brookes, who was outed amid legal threats in 2013 after only 6 months, says he would «routinely write dozens of emails [to journal editors], and it was common to have no response at all.»

The mass shooting that killed 17 students and staff members at a Florida high school thrusts the Broward County school system into a hornet's nest of legal issues including the complexities of a crime scene, the privacy of student records, and the threat of liability.

For example, debt collectors can no longer call outside of reasonable waking hours (8:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.), use abusive or degrading language, contact you at work (after you've told them not to) or make legal threats (typically unfounded) against you.

The post-sale atmosphere was triumphant at Sotheby's, all the more so since the auction house prevailed over the threat of a legal challenge by Christie's to Denver's deal with Sotheby's.

His current exhibition at the International Center of Photography Museum, New York entitled Edmund Clark: The Day the Music Died, presents an installation of works about the measures deemed necessary to protect citizens from the threat of international terrorism and the cultural, ethical and legal implications of these measures.

The 2008 exhibition of his piece, Theatre of the World, at the Vancouver Art Gallery met with Animal Rights protests and legal threats due to its reliance on the violent interaction between insects in an enclosed space.

Scientists Fight Back: On Tuesday the board of directors of the American Association for the Advancement of Science issued a statement «vigorously opposing» harassment, legal challenges and extensive Freedom of Information Act requests and even death threats aimed at climate researchers.

And yet, despite some encouraging developments in renewable energy and some breakthroughs in international leadership, carbon emissions continue to rise at a steady rate, and for their pains the scientists themselves — the cruelest blow of all — have been the targets of an unrelenting and well - organized attack that includes death threats, summonses from a hostile Congress, attempts to get them fired, legal harassment, and intrusive discovery demands so severe they had to start their own legal - defense fund, all amplified by a relentless propaganda campaign nakedly financed by the fossil - fuel companies.

5) False premises are routinely thrown around as facts, i.e. that skeptics engage in death threats (although this is little more than an allegation by one climate scientist under investigation at the time) with no legal action taken to support it or any publication of emails etc..

He showed up at Lucia's within minutes of Mosher's comments, trying to make Lucia worry about legal threats.

2 April: SMH: Peter Hannam: «Conspiracist» climate change study withdrawn amid legal threats Climate change academics say the decision by a publisher to retract their paper examining the links between conspiracy theorists and denial of global warming because of legal threats could have a «chilling effect» on research... «Sadly, it has turned into a routine for outsiders with no scientific standing to approach, bully, or intimidate journals, editors, and academics,» said Professor Lewandowsky, now at the UK's University of Bristol.

However, remarkable emphasis is put on the «particular values of the legal order of the Member State» to judge whether a «threat to the calm and physical security of the population» is at stake (para 29); this can be contrasted with the economic and social danger for society at large referred to in Tsakouridis.

Or would the the threat of legal liability help deter situations such as the current fiasco at Walter Reed?

We do not see the initiative as a threat because at LexisNexis we deliver comprehensive analysis and innovative technologies that add value far beyond simply providing content — all helping to legal professionals efficiently and confidently make decisions and manage their legal issues.

Thereafter over a period of at least five months she received letter after letter and threat after threat from British Gas to cut off her supply, start legal proceedings against her and report her to credit reference agencies — all without justification.

Second, AI is no threat to lawyers» jobs: it will enhance lawyers by allowing services to be provided to the «latent legal market», those who might be tempted to buy services at lower than current prices.

This case should sound a clear warning bell at a time when there are threats of yet further cutbacks in services and legal funding in child care work.

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At present, the bulk of public services seem to me to be delivered at one of three points in people's involvement with the law: general public legal information delivered through seminars, workshops and pamphlets to people who are idly grazing for legal information or helping a friend; narrowly - focused legal information, advice and representation delivered to individuals at the moment of crisis, often following separation, a threat to take the children or service of process; or, detailed, concrete legal information and advice delivered to individuals who are well engaged in a proceeding, usually unrepresented by counsel, and are seeking details about specific issues, such as making or replying to an application, demanding or making disclosure or preparing for triaAt present, the bulk of public services seem to me to be delivered at one of three points in people's involvement with the law: general public legal information delivered through seminars, workshops and pamphlets to people who are idly grazing for legal information or helping a friend; narrowly - focused legal information, advice and representation delivered to individuals at the moment of crisis, often following separation, a threat to take the children or service of process; or, detailed, concrete legal information and advice delivered to individuals who are well engaged in a proceeding, usually unrepresented by counsel, and are seeking details about specific issues, such as making or replying to an application, demanding or making disclosure or preparing for triaat one of three points in people's involvement with the law: general public legal information delivered through seminars, workshops and pamphlets to people who are idly grazing for legal information or helping a friend; narrowly - focused legal information, advice and representation delivered to individuals at the moment of crisis, often following separation, a threat to take the children or service of process; or, detailed, concrete legal information and advice delivered to individuals who are well engaged in a proceeding, usually unrepresented by counsel, and are seeking details about specific issues, such as making or replying to an application, demanding or making disclosure or preparing for triaat the moment of crisis, often following separation, a threat to take the children or service of process; or, detailed, concrete legal information and advice delivered to individuals who are well engaged in a proceeding, usually unrepresented by counsel, and are seeking details about specific issues, such as making or replying to an application, demanding or making disclosure or preparing for trial.

In RFF, the Court ruled that an «exception to the exception» applied, since the «legal advice [was being] procured «at the trustee's own expense and for his own protection,» given that the «trustee is defending himself against the threat of litigation brought by the beneficiary.»

According to research from ALM Intelligence presented last week at LegalWeek in New York, as Deloitte, PWC, KPMG and EY expand their legal offerings, they pose the biggest threat to the future success of law firms and alternative service providers.

And I also think as a legal industry unlike other industries where Artificial Intelligence is more of a threat, you look at transportation and I think there's going to be some real questions there as to what AI and its effects are, but in law, you have the majority of people, who need a lawyer not being able to afford it, and so I think there's this huge leading market and I actually think AI could end up allowing lawyers to do more work being more profitable as a law firm, and I think most importantly, helping further access to justice in that process.

As I see it, Google's free legal research services won't put a dent in LEXIS or Westlaw, at least not for a long, long time,  Instead, they pose a threat to what I've collectively termed the «second city» providers like Versuslaw, Casemaker, FastCase or Loislaw. Right now, most lawyers are able to access those services for free or cheap through deals with the bars — but will bars continue to support those subscriptions when there's a robust free option available? My heart goes out to these companies because they served as an oasis for solos when no other options, save the law library and manual research, existed. Yet I don't see all of them able to survive the Google onslaught.

The Peruvian economy is growing stronger alongside its legal sector and government, however, speaking with Oscar Mago, Partner at OMC Abogados & Consultores, he states if certain threats imposed are ignored, it can cause serious economic damage and damage to the reputation of a company.

In your opinion, could reputational risk prove more effective than the threat of legal sanctions at persuading companies to fully disclose their tax affairs?

The basic legal principle at issue is what constitutes a «true threat.»

Legal expense insurance gains in popularity Reinsurance takes hard look at quake threats New pressures on Errors & Omissions could mean you wind up in court KPMG chats with Top Broker about its world view How identity theft victims» information is misused RSA helps entrepreneurs get social How to wow clients with a great meal and a touch of class

Despite reaching that far back into history, Motorola is just as eager to modernize the targeted hardware list to keep its complaints relevant — the current iPad, the iPhone 4S and other devices are at risk of a trade ban, posing more of a threat to Apple's bottom line than the dust - covered (and near - finished) initial legal challenge from October 2010.

The legal dispute is important because Aereo now represents the greatest threat to the TV industry's «bundle» model, which involves force - feeding giant packages of channels to cable and satellite viewers at ever higher prices.

Facebook knew about Cambridge Analytica's data policy violations since at least August 2016, but did nothing but send a legal notice to delete the information.It only suspended the Facebook accounts of Cambridge Analytica and other guilty parties and announced the move this week in hopes of muting forthcoming New York Times and Guardian articles about the issue (articles which it also tried to prevent from running via legal threats.)

Investigations and Law Enforcement — Selected Duties & Responsibilities Build and implement investigations programs and security solutions to enable effective organizational administration, threat detection / elimination, conflict / issue resolution, and other critical discovery functions Utilize various technical applications, including cameras, A / V equipment, transmitters, recorders, and bugs, to generate valuable information and isolate parties responsible for criminal and civil malfeasance Create issue and security reports to enable development of new policies and procedures aimed at preventing further wrongdoing and protect valuable resources team Integrate investigative principles into corporate strategic mission, ensuring management and program accountability, proactive prevention of discrimination, case efficiency, and legal analysis Perform security and crime analyses of firm infrastructure against related compliance requirements as well as on - going vulnerability assessments to continuously mitigate risk Develop investigatory standard documents to serve as guide and rules resources to promote fair and legal probes Supervise related departmental staff, including performance plan development and assessment, technical oversight, personnel recruitment and training, staff discipline, and other pertinent functions Work as a member of the corporate incident response team in the execution of all related tasks, including incident response plan development, damage minimization, resource restoration, and firm integrity protection Communicate all issues and user feedback to members of management, law enforcement professionals, and other interested parties, generating situational reports and follow - up recommendations based on investigatory results Maintain a strong working knowledge of all software, hardware, applications, techniques, trends and other critical tools which aid in effective investigation React quickly based upon limited and confidential information, drawing upon extensive police and military experience in tense, complicated situations Collaborate in the preparation of necessary legal documents, including search and arrest warrants Assist management with various other duties as assigned

The approach meets the needs of both parties and the children, and still involves legal counsel, but it eliminates the threat of or fear of court intervention at any stage.