Sentences with phrase «more than a plaintiff»

Defense counsel seem to forget this more than plaintiffs, but maybe that is just my bias.

After September 1, 2011, the defendants and plaintiffs in these situations can not recover costs and attorney's fees that total more than a plaintiff's jury verdict.

Not exact matches

All of that comes on top of more than 500 class actions filed on behalf of owners and lessors of Volkswagen diesel cars — an unprecedented number, according to Elizabeth Cabraser, a leading mass - disaster plaintiffs attorney who is heading a 22 - lawyer steering committee trying to bring order to the sprawling mess.

In the company blog, Telsa referred to Organ as having «a long track record of extorting money for meritless claims» and said that the company «would rather spend more on a trial and clear its name than settle with the plaintiff.»

The attorney representing the plaintiffs in this case, Bruce Afran, estimates that Princeton's tax bill should be around $ 40 million, which is 264 % more than what it currently pays.

Lawyers for the plaintiffs said more than 90 former and current Google employees admitted to facing discrimination, according to The Wall Street Journal.

If allowed to proceed as a class action, the 2013 lawsuit could cover more than 160,000 California drivers and give plaintiffs leverage to negotiate a settlement.

It is more like: «Look, I don't know if you're a pyramid scheme or what, but some people think you are, so I want my money back,» which is less an assertion of fraud on Herbalife's part than it is an assertion of red - blooded American litigiousness on the plaintiffs» part.

«Because the proclamation is unlawful as applied to plaintiffs, and inflicts grave and irreversible harms on them, plaintiffs seek a declaration that the proclamation violates the Trade Act and the NAFTA Implementation Act and an injunction prohibiting its enforcements against plaintiffs,» they wrote in their more than 600 - page complaint.

Graber may know a lot more about data breaches than the average lawyer — he is a key lawyer for plaintiffs in the massive data breach at Anthem Inc. that «compromised the personal identification and health information of more than 80 million customers of the health care company,» according to the law firm.

Three female plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed Wednesday «allege a conspiracy spanning more than two decades to conceal sexual abuse committed by church members» throughout the 1980s and 1990s, according to the Associated Press.

The bill opened a one - year window to revive expired California sex - abuse claims, some from seventy years ago, and more than a thousand plaintiffs then filed previously expired claims.

He adds, «Where we might have hoped for a level of calm analysis and civic, even civil, discussion of the case in all of its humanity and complexity, we have been given little more than banner headlines, orchestrated press conferences, serial fascination with priestly deviancy, and plaintiff strategy.»

Among the plaintiffs is the Grocery Manufacturers Association, whose more than 300 members include both Starbucks and Monsanto.

Judge Claudia Wilken, who presided over the O'Bannon case, issued an order declaring that the NCAA and some of the conferences will have to defend the rules against players receiving more than tuition, room and board (and now a cost - of - attendance stipend) in open court in a case brought by a plaintiff group that includes former Clemson cornerback Martin Jenkins and former Wisconsin forward Nigel Hayes.

The plaintiff also will ask that a judge order Long Grove to reopen Arlington Heights Road south of Aptakisic Road, which has been closed for more than a decade, said William Balling, Buffalo Grove village manager.

«After accepting more than $ 100,000 in campaign contributions from plaintiff's attorneys he employs in class action suits — which can be hugely lucrative to those firms — Mr. DiNapoli is using official state business to solicit campaign contributions.

«Bronx people are generally poorer than in other parts of the city, so they might be more sympathetic to poor plaintiffs.»

The court held that the Plaintiff has made more than sufficient references to the specific allegations, the dates and times were made plus the specific radio / media platforms on which the allegations were made by Defendants against the Plaintiff.

It also bolsters funding to some towns that had been targeted for huge cuts, notably Torrington, a named plaintiff in a suit filed by the Connecticut Education Association seeking to block the executive order cuts, would receive $ 24.68 million — $ 200,000 more than it did last year.

I thought SUNY political science professor Gerry Benjamin offered more than sufficient evidence, chapter and verse, on behalf of plaintiffs.

Plaintiffs in the case challenged the number of NHIS list presented by the EC, saying it should be more than the presented number.

However, Salk President Elizabeth Blackburn and other administrators argue vehemently that the 2016 report, which shows senior women pulling in more than twice as much National Institutes of Health funding as their tenured male colleagues, is inaccurate and represents only the views of its authors, who were led by plaintiff Beverly Emerson.

The plaintiffs — 11 Dover parents — are entitled to recover legal costs, which total more than $ 1 million, from the school board.

The Match lawsuit was filed earlier this month in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles by plaintiff Matthew Evans, who contends he went out with a woman he met through the site who turned out to be nothing more than «date bait» working for the company.

Judge Robert B. Freedman agreed with the plaintiffs in Valenzuela v. O'Connell that students who have failed the test — especially English - language learners — have not had a fair chance to learn the material because they were more likely than others to attend overcrowded schools and have unqualified teachers.

Beginning in the late 1960s, and accelerating unabated through to the present, plaintiffs have filed more than 125 court cases questioning the constitutionality of school district and school spending levels.

How many total dollars these suits have contributed to the rapid increase in education spending is unknown, but we do know that, since 1989, adequacy lawsuits have been launched in more than 30 states, and a vast majority of them have resulted in a court award to plaintiffs mandating more money for schools.

Courts have found for the plaintiffs in more than half of the cases on the grounds that schools are not «adequately» funded (see Figure 1).

The suit — filed by more than 40 plaintiffs on May 12 in Pensacola, Fla. — challenges several actions taken over the past year by the local school board and the district's superintendent, Leonard Hall.

I said that the MET research is more consistent with the defendants» case than the plaintiffs».

From the Hartford Courant: Frustrated plaintiffs in the Sheff v. O'Neill lawsuit accepted a new agreement Friday to continue desegregation efforts in Hartford, asking a judge to approve a one - year extension that does little more than maintain the status quo during the state's fiscal troubles.

«Plaintiffs failed to show that the statutes themselves make any certain group of students more likely to be taught by ineffective teachers than any other group of students... The court's job is merely to determine whether the statutes are constitutional, not if they are «a good idea.

All told, the case and bargaining have cost the district more than $ 418,000 in legal bills to date, district officials said, not including $ 550,000 in attorney's fees paid to the plaintiffs.

But the Vergara plaintiffs» team was much more interested in the spectacular than the substantive.

Contrary to the argument presented by the CCJEF plaintiffs, the judge found that Connecticut already, «spends more than the bare minimum on schools» (Moukawsher, 2016, p. 23).

Veteran teacher Rich Nixon, one of the six plaintiffs in the suit, said the drumbeat against due process was started by lawmakers who are more determined to silence teacher voices than improve public education.

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Like plaintiffs, thousands of other aspiring authors who signed up with PublishAmerica have become demoralized because the publishing contract appears to be little more than a pretext for selling dubious services... These authors also feel trapped because PublishAmerica owns the rights to their books for seven to ten years.

The plaintiffs allege that because the plan sponsor imprudently and disloyally provided participants the much more expensive versions of the plan's same mutual fund options during these dates, plan participants lost more than $ 12 million of their retirement savings.

Using the Hueler Index as a benchmark, the plaintiffs claim that by providing participants the Vanguard Prime Money Market Fund instead of a stable value fund, the plan sponsor caused the plan, participants and retirees to lose more than $ 41 million in retirement savings from February 2010 through June 30, 2017.

«Judges are becoming increasingly impatient with plaintiffs who produce no more proof of ownership than a lost - note affidavit or a copy of the note,» said Michael Doan, an attorney at Doan Law Firm LLP in Carlsbad, California.

The plaintiffs seek more than $ 20 million for fraud, breach of the franchise agreement, and negligence as well as punitive damages and attorney's fees.

The integrity of any final dispensation of the Corcoran depends on several key points raised by the petitioners, which include the advocacy group Save the Corcoran and more than a dozen other plaintiffs.

An Oregon judge ruled earlier this month that a complaint filed by more than a dozen young plaintiffs against the federal government — referred to by advocates as «the most important lawsuit on the planet right now» — can go to trial.

The sisters then joined the Our Children's Trust plaintiffs and more than 200,000 other protesters at the Climate March.

I urge you to buy the book, not so much because I need the money for my end of the case (which I do) but because when a sclerotic and dysfunctional judicial system co-operates with a cynical and fraudulent plaintiff in turning the DC courts into a 21st century version of trial by ordeal, it is more important than ever to push back by disseminating as widely as possible the opinions of him that Mann is trying to suppress.

Proponents see this lawsuit as far more than symbolic: It is a chance — perhaps our last, if you believe some of the plaintiffs — to compel a Trump administration by law to act responsibly on climate.

«This is the first time any case for a banana worker has come before a U.S. court,» Duane Miller, one of the attorneys representing more than 30 Nicaraguan plaintiffs who worked on plantations from 1964 to 1990, tells BusinessWeek.According to one upcoming lawsuit that was filed in 2004, Dole Fresh Fruit Co. and Standard Fruit Co., now part of Dole, were not only negligent, but that they fraudulently concealed information about DBCP's effects.

Plaintiffs lawyers, however, are more helpful than defense lawyers.