Sentences with phrase «now in a legal battle»

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But unlike other Russian oligarchs, Khodorkovsky now enjoys an exceptional moral authority for surviving years in Russia's dismal penal system and waging legal battles in a corrupt and troubled justice system.

Now they're locked in a legal battle.

But now the legal battles against the HHS employer contraceptive mandate are shifting to very different questions of personhood: Are for - profit corporations «persons» in such a legal sense that they have religious rights?

The 100 Indonesian Christians in New Hampshire and New Jersey are now fighting a legal battle that, if lost, could lead them to the same fate that befell Massie.

Now I am in a legal battle with his family just to have 50 % of the sale of our joint property, which I've paid into with steady work, for 10 yrs.

COR won that lawsuit, but is now entangled in a new legal battle with the city.

However, the state Department of Environmental Conservation has delayed a decision on that proposal and is now locked in a legal battle with the company.

As the idea flourished into what we now know as the massively popular Facebook, Zuckerberg became the youngest billionaire in history, facing more than his share of legal and personal battles along the way.

Amid continuing legal and political battles over the eight charter schools without walls now operating in the Keystone State, the legislature shifted the power to grant charters for such Internet - based schools from local school districts to the education department.

The fate of Ohio's school - finance system, the target of a long - running legal battle that has been watched across the country, now rests in the hands of just seven people.

Federal law now provides those protections to everyone, yet the unions have continued to fight for ever - stronger job protections uniquely for teachers to the point where now, in 2014, it is nearly impossible to fire any teacher without spending thousands of dollars and hours in legal battles, even when there is proof of student abuse!

And it's had plenty of controversy around it in terms of legal and environmental battles, and now, it's got blood on its hands, too.

Despite being in the middle of a lengthy divorce battle — with legal bills mounting and no income coming in right now — Janice can at least take solace in the fact that she and Richard (we've changed their names) had a pre-nup guaranteeing her $ 250,000, as well $ 20,000 a month in child support until Mandy turns 18.

Phil Rankin, co-chairman of the Trail Lawyers Association of B.C.'s legal aid action committee is recommending that legal aid lawyers withdraw from handling any of the Vancouver riot cases as the next step in what is now a four - month battle to increase provincial legal aid funding.

For example, the latest LFMP event, held on September 18 2014 in New York, featured Paul Barrett, formerly of the Wall Street Journal, and now Bloomberg, who discussed his new book, «Law of the Jungle,» about the legal battle over Texaco's oil find in Ecuador.

Well, not surprisingly, given that the battle for quality white collar talent acquisition is now starting earlier and earlier in a potential employee's career, the legal and accountancy firms we talked to said they did want to do this.

Now I'm often the one who feels alien to a legal culture in which most of my colleagues have opposing sympathies in «the battle of the sexes.»

Most of the people who live here are not aware of the legal battle going on in the background right now.

And I'm not sure the legal profession has a lot to cheer about on this score: a contributor to the UK's Barrister Magazine can write»... In that time [20 years] it is certainly fair to say that the battle lines have shifted — women can now wear trousers in court (hoorah)...» And I have a suspicion, but do not know, that it's only recently that some law firms have abandoned the (likely unwritten) rule that women lawyers should not wear trousers to the officIn that time [20 years] it is certainly fair to say that the battle lines have shifted — women can now wear trousers in court (hoorah)...» And I have a suspicion, but do not know, that it's only recently that some law firms have abandoned the (likely unwritten) rule that women lawyers should not wear trousers to the officin court (hoorah)...» And I have a suspicion, but do not know, that it's only recently that some law firms have abandoned the (likely unwritten) rule that women lawyers should not wear trousers to the office.

Now, Cutler says the prolonged legal battle has forced her to file a Chapter 7 bankruptcy petition in New York.

The commentaries about the inequities and irrationality of the legal class system at the 2017 CLOC Institute were fast and furious: from Richard Susskind's explanation about the importance of the ABS rules (alternative business structures) in the UK in breaking down walls to allow new ways for lawyers to collaborate and share accountability (and profits) with professionals from other disciplines and professions within the same workplace, to the battle cry so clearly articulated by Lucy Bassli (then of Microsoft and now of InnoLegal Services), demanding that we remove the term «non-lawyer» from our daily conversations and certainly from our value playbooks.

Another major event in their pre-bitcoin days was the now - infamous legal battle with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, documented in the 2010 film The Social Network.

Unfortunately «ridiculous» also describes CREA trying to fight a legal battle against an opponent with bottomless pockets especially when those opponents» pockets are our own as taxpayers CREA, the provincial organizations, and now it seems the boards appear to be more interested in finding new ways to extract funds from REALTORS ® as our membership shrinks, with the goal of self preservation rather than providing value and constraint instep with the financial challenges the average agent faces in today's markets.