Sentences with phrase «nuisance lawsuit»

Finding that claims for aesthetic harm alone could not support a private nuisance lawsuit, the court affirmed the trial court.

The former is a form of nuisance lawsuit designed to financially intimidate those who protest.

(Aside: The same question could be posed about the 2008 Kivalina v Exxon global warming nuisance lawsuit, where the citation for the ICE campaign strategy / targeting memos was, in part, the New York Times, which in turn said the source was the Sierra Club, which to this day acts as though the event never happened.

The patents could, for instance, provide a deterrent to any competitor that wants to hobble them with nuisance lawsuits.

Or perhaps they are filing nuisance lawsuits hoping to get paid something to go away.

If at first you don't succeed with winning your global warming nuisance lawsuits, try, try again.

Despite multiple exonerations from multiple investigations, denier groups are still pressing nuisance lawsuits to release more scientists» correspondence.

In 2011's AEP vs. Connecticut, the Supreme Court ruled that individuals may not file nuisance lawsuits regarding carbon emissions under federal common law because carbon emissions are already regulated by the Clean Air Act.

Climate scientists routinely face death threats, hate mail, nuisance lawsuits and political attacks.

Organizations routinely file nuisance lawsuits and onerous Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to disrupt the work of climate scientists.

Several other scientists launched the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund last year to help scientists and institutions respond to nuisance lawsuits.

«I can delete the hate mail I got calling me a «Nazi bitch whore climatebecile,»» Hayhoe says, «but responding to nuisance lawsuits and investigations takes up enormous amounts of time that could be better spent teaching, mentoring, researching, doing my job.»

The suits also follow three similar public nuisance lawsuits filed earlier this year by Marin and San Mateo Counties, and the city of Imperial Beach, in San Diego County.

Meanwhile, someone in the enviro - activist community decided to apply that same kind of complaint to high - level global warming nuisance lawsuits.

Entertaining how the NRDC played a role of some sort with one of the global warming nuisance lawsuits, the Connecticut v American Electric Power, while another of those global warming nuisance lawsuits, Comer v. Murphy Oil had wording within its documents stating «The API [American Petroleum Institute] and other Oil Company Defendants have engaged in concerted financial activity — far in excess of $ 1 million — in furtherance of a tortious civil conspiracy to «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact» — details I described in my previous blog post.

-------------------------------------------------------------------- The above post contains a small portion of updated and altered material out of the original I had at Breitbart.com in 2010, «Global Warming Nuisance Lawsuits Are Based on a Fatal Flaw»

There have been recent situations where the public records law has been abused by lawyers seeking to win legal fees in essentially nuisance lawsuits.

Not exact matches

The Irwindale City Council voted Wednesday night to drop a public nuisance declaration and lawsuit against Huy Fong Foods, makers of Sriracha hot sauce.

First - of - their - kind lawsuits filed in five states accuse the defendants of conspiring, racketeering and creating a public nuisance.

The Town of Amherst is set to file a lawsuit in State Supreme Court against major manufacturers and distributors of opioid pain medication, accusing the companies of public nuisance, fraud, negligence and unfair business practices.

The lawsuits are «public nuisance» cases.

With his capabilities and expertise, Roger can stop the lawsuits, repossession, creditor calls, and all of the other financial nuisances in your life.

Even more puzzling, though, is an op - ed Bookbinder published on Vox.com last December in which he discloses he has «been consulting with lawyers working on the nuisance cases,» which he identifies elsewhere in the piece as the lawsuits filed by the California municipalities.

California cities San Francisco and Oakland filed separate lawsuits against five oil companies on Wednesday seeking billions of dollars to protect against rising sea levels they blamed on climate change... Marin and San Mateo counties and Imperial Beach, California, in July brought similar public nuisance and failure to warn lawsuits alleging climate change impacts.

The cities had hoped their lawsuit would be heard in state court, since California has an established «public nuisance» law that hasn't been developed in the federal court system.

In California, where the lawsuits seek billions of dollars to pay for mitigation measures, such as sea walls to protect coastal property, the oil and gas companies responded by seeking to move the cases to federal courts, where nuisance claims are less likely to succeed.

With a decision that could have far - reaching implications, a federal judge in California has ordered the first ever U.S. court hearing on climate science for a «public nuisance» lawsuit, meaning that major oil and gas companies for the first time may have to go on the record regarding what they knew about the planetary impacts of their products — and when.

Few people, for instance, would like their doctor or hospital to be subjected to email attacks, nuisance phone calls, threats or lawsuits because someone (qualified or not) disputes the treatment being given.

The lawsuit, brought under public nuisance law, seeks monetary damages from the energy industry for the destruction of the native village of Kivalina, AK, by coastal flooding due to anthropogenic climate change....

San Francisco filed a lawsuit in California Superior Court against five oil and gas companies alleging that the carbon emissions from their fossil fuel production had created an unlawful public nuisance.

NYC's lawsuit relies on the legal theories of «public nuisance» and «private nuisance.»

Under the attractive nuisance doctrine, property owners can sometimes be held liable for a child trespasser's injuries in a premises liability lawsuit.

Helped a client obtain a comprehensive nuisance - value settlement in a case involving bitter divorce litigants, a failing company, and multiple lawsuits.

The lawsuit was brought in BC Supreme Court against me personally and as a representative of BROKE for trespass, public and 3 private nuisances, assault, intimidation intentional interference with contractual relations, and conspiracy.

These lawsuits most often take the form of defamation, nuisance, trespass, invasion of privacy, interference with contract or economic advantage, and other economic torts.

New York City filed a lawsuit earlier this year against the world's five largest publicly traded oil companies, claiming «public nuisance» as a cause of action.

Nonsmokers have filed lawsuits against landlords or fellow tenants on the basis of nuisance, breach of statutory duty to keep the premises habitable, breach of the common law covenant of peaceful enjoyment, negligence, harassment, battery, and intentional infliction of emotional distress; courts have ruled for and against nonsmokers in individual cases.

Rather, the goal of loser pays is to discourage low probability - of - success lawsuits filed by rational actors in order to extract nuisance settlements from defendants.

Love noted that trolls fall into one of two categories: the first are «smash - and - grab» nuisance trolls that seize on any patent they can find, and send out hundreds of letters to threaten small businesses with lawsuits.

Google (s goog) is ramping up its campaign to protect the cloud from the sort of nuisance patent lawsuits that have engulfed the smartphone and app - developer industries.

As we've noted before, Google's non-aggression pact is no magic bullet to stop nuisance cloud - based lawsuits, in part because it provides little deterrent to so - called trolls — shell companies, often backed by lawyers and private investors, that do nothing but acquire old patents in order to file lawsuits.

In addition, the lawsuit seeks to show how Shipping & Transit makes frivolous claims of infringement in order to extract nuisance value settlements.

As Ramirez noted, trolls now make up the majority of patent lawsuits in America and that «for victims of nuisance suits, it's less expensive to settle than defend the suits -LSB-...] just hold your nose, settle early and get out cheap.»

The trial court dismissed the lawsuit, finding that the state's law bars nuisance actions based solely on aesthetic harm allegations.

Sowers's neighbors Ann and Karl Hall («Neighbors») joined the Subdivision in filing a lawsuit seeking an injunction preventing the construction of the wind turbine because it presented a nuisance.

If the Condo Board does not see things his way, the unit owner is entitled to proceed against the aggravation directly in Florida courts via a lawsuit filed against the neighbor who is creating the nuisance.