Sentences with phrase «number of plaintiffs»

The Rico Case against Armando Montelongo intensifies as the number of Plaintiffs more than Double in count: 356 claim severe damages.

Looking more closely at the cases comprising the spike reveals that more than half were filed by a small number of plaintiffs.

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Mass tort litigation allows a large number of plaintiffs, who share similar injuries caused by the same product, to have their cases heard and tried concurrently.

The court considers the number of plaintiffs, the geographical location of the plaintiffs, the similarities of their injuries, and how closely associated the individual claims actually are.

Patient plaintiffs were seeking a class action designation, which could mean the number of plaintiffs could span into the thousands.

But the EPA's Endangerment Finding and supporting Technical Support Document (TSD) have been attacked by a large number of plaintiffs.

Thanks to no - fault insurance in Ontario and the insurance lobby push to limit recovery for whiplash, automobile litigation has become much more complex and there are a number of plaintiff - focused boutiques that have arisen, specializing in things such as catastrophic claims.

That wouldn't protect guilty defendants from actual small harms spread over huge numbers of plaintiffs, but it would provide some shield from those bring claims grounded in seemingly deliberate ignorance.

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.

He joined with a number of other DC residents on the case but was the lead plaintiff in Jackson v District of Columbia Board of Elections.

The Court conceded there was a compelling state interest in providing contraception; however, because the ACA has a number of exemptions and accommodations, most notably excusing non-profit religious organizations from the contraception mandate, forcing the plaintiffs to provide contraception coverage was not the least restrictive means to further the compelling interest, i.e. the HHS could have allowed the plaintiffs the same accommodations available for non-profit religious organizations.

Plaintiff's predecessor likewise caused the word «Tabasco» to be registered as a trade - mark under the laws of Louisiana and a number of other states, as well as in England, France, Germany, and many other foreign nations.

Such of these other manufacturers, including defendant, whose use of the word «Tabasco» came to the knowledge of plaintiff and its predecessors, have been warned to the effect that they have no right to use the word in connection with the sauce, or to use similar packages, and quite a number of suits for infringement have been filed by plaintiff, most of which have been terminated by consent decrees.

Justice Okon Abang, in a judgment on Monday ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission to immediately issue a certificate of return to the plaintiff, Uche Ogah, who polled the second highest number of votes in the primary.

The plaintiffs claimed that the commission placed a disproportionately large number of non-minority voters in districts dominated by Republicans; meanwhile, the commission allegedly placed many minority voters in smaller districts that tended to vote Democratic.

The plaintiffs, Sue Evenwel and Edward Pfenninger, argued that district populations ought to take into account only the number of registered or eligible voters residing within those districts as opposed to total population counts, which are generally used for redistricting purposes.

A number of witnesses were to testify in favor of a marriage equality plank in the platform: Marc Solomon, national campaign director for Freedom to Marry; Allison Herwitt, legislative director for the Human Rights Campaign; Army Chief Warrant Officer Charlie Morgan, a lesbian New Hampshire guardsman with stage - four incurable breast cancer and a plaintiff in Servicemembers Legal Defense Network's lawsuit against the Defense of Marriage Act; Michael Macleod - Ball, the American Civil Liberties Union's chief of staff for the Washington Legislative Office; and Aaron Zellhoefer, a gay delegate to the Democratic National Convention representing the National Stonewall Democrats.

In the court's majority opinion, Kagan described the two - part analysis utilized by the high court when plaintiffs allege racial gerrymandering as follows: «First, the plaintiff must prove that «race was the predominant factor motivating the legislature's decision to place a significant number of voters within or without a particular district.»

READ MORE: Here's the number of times Ghana experienced gas explosions Nana Akwasi Awuah, lawyer for the plaintiff said the EPA did not consider the safety regulations before issuing permit to Allied Oil adding that the fuel station poses danger to his client.

The plaintiffs with suit number M / 4853/17 had sought an order to compel the AGF to investigate Acting - chairman of Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu and his predecessors in office for alleged corruption.

According to the plaintiff, the suits numbers are FHC / L / CS / 827/17 and FHC / L / CS / 826/17, adding that the negotiations by the defendants will render the outcome of the suits nugatory.

The nine plaintiffs said they filed the suit numbered FHC / ABJ / CS / 464/2016 for themselves and on behalf of the Executive Committee / National Working Committee of the PDP.

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

«A number of researchers had been looking for the genes related to breast cancer and knew where the genes were likely to be,» says Arupa Ganguly, a geneticist at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and one of the plaintiffs in the ACLU suit.

«I can tell you of a number of cases that are pending where the plaintiffs are very interested,» says Gostin.

Plaintiffs in these lawsuits say they favor high standards and accountability and then point to data showing that large numbers of students in urban districts fail to meet heightened standards.

A significant number of state courts responded positively to plaintiffs» pleas and ordered unprecedented increases in K — 12 funding in their states.

Even though constitutional requirements are typically vaguely defined, if at all, plaintiffs were very successful in these adequacy lawsuits for a decade and a half, and a number of states were ordered to substantially increase their appropriations for K - 12 education.

An initial settlement in 2011 between the plaintiffs and the district expanded the number of protected schools from three to 45.

During his career, Dr. Valencia has served as an expert witness for plaintiffs of color in a number of education lawsuits, most recently in the 2006 federal - level Santamaria v. Dallas Independent School District segregation case in which the plaintiffs prevailed.

Plaintiffs» attorney Kyle Withers asked Boyd whether he knows the number of times the school district refrained to dismiss due to cost and time.

One is the fact that a number of the named plaintiffs, including the Vergara sisters, attend schools where teachers do not have tenure.

When the CCJEF v. Rell school funding lawsuit was filed 11 years ago, Stamford Mayor Dannel Malloy was a plaintiff in the case, one of a number of local elected officials who decried the fact that Connecticut's system of school funding was unfair, inadequate and unconstitutional.

A Harvard professor of education and economics provided the Vergara plaintiffs powerful testimony today when he told the court that schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District have ineffective teachers and a disproportionate number of them are assigned to minority and low income students.

The outcome of the case is uncertain, but in the event that the plaintiff's claim is approved by the court, a number of Sparinvest SICAV sub-funds can potentially gain from the lawsuit, being former Postbank shareholders.

The plaintiff's attorney cites a number of different legal cases to support the finding that Smith should be held personally liable for his negligence: «It is well settled that an individual member of a limited liability company or an office of a corporation may be individual liable for his or her own torts, including negligence.»

Plaintiff / debtor listed a disputed debt to defendant Sallie Mae, Inc. on Schedule F with account number -LSB--RSB- in the amount of $ 29,774.00, and another loan with account number -LSB--RSB-(believed to be the same account, under an abbreviated number).

«ORDERED AND ADJUDGED that the student loan debt owed by the Plaintiff, -LSB--RSB-, to the Defendant, U.S. Department of Education, is hereby DISCHARGED in bankruptcy and the amount due on the subject student loan, Account Number XXX - XX - 1913 is zero.»

Regarding the losses, Meir said that the plaintiff was not exactly devoid of responsibility or agency: «The determination that the defendants gave advice regarding the execution of transactions does not change the fact that the plaintiff is a self - employed person who also managed a securities portfolio at a bank for a number of years.

Attorneys for an Illinois man who applied for a Starwood Preferred Guest - branded American Express credit card have filed a class action suit contending that American Express failed to give the plaintiff and others the promised number of hotel loyalty points.

Plaintiffs, led by the Electric Power Supply Association (EPSA), argued that ZECs preempt the FPA because they are «tethered» to wholesale auctions; and, that ZECs violate the dormant Commerce Clause because they are only offered to a limited number of in - state nuclear facilities, disadvantaging out - of - state nuclear plants.

Yet again the plaintiffs fail to cite their source, but at least they're now using actual numbers instead of beliefs.

«Rather than seeing the Avvo ratings for what they are — «that and $ 1.50 will get you a ride on Seattle's new South Lake Union Streetcar» — plaintiffs Browne and Wenokur want to make a federal case out of the number assigned to them because (a) it could harm their reputation, (b) it could cost them customers / fees, or (c) it could mislead the lawyer - hiring public into retaining poor lawyers or bypassing better lawyers.

For example, an online advertisement designed to collect plaintiffs for a mass tort case should be built with an understanding of the number of potential victims involved.

A number of legal bloggers roundly condemned Jones Day for bringing the suit, with Public Citizen lawyer Paul Alan Levy leading the backlash with his post at the Consumer Law & Policy Blog in which he said that the lawsuit deserved a prize for «grossest abuse of trademark law to suppress speech the plaintiff doesn't like.»

An American magistrate judge (sort of like a master) has ruled that a plaintiff suing a company for improperly sending a takedown notice under the DMCA has waived a number of heads of attorney - client privilege by discussing the details of her legal case too broadly by email and on a blog (Eric Goldman blog (per Venkat)-RRB-

Since the Supreme Court of Canada's 2004 decision in Schmeiser, the Federal Court and Federal Court of Appeal have considered a number of cases on the consideration to be given to non-infringing alternatives when assessing the plaintiff's damages or the defendant's profits.

He created a site in 2007 which targeted a business and its CEO, making a number of disparaging comments about the Plaintiffs and alleging involvement in a Ponzi scheme.

According to ILR's study Think Globally, Sue Locally, transnational cases are characterized by a number of features, including aggressive media tactics, organized protests and boycotts of corporate defendants, political pressure and, in some cases, outright fraud and abuse by plaintiffs» lawyers.