Sentences with phrase «numbers of defendants in»

A second spike, immediately prior to the effective date of the AIA in late 2011, correlates with patent holders» last chance to sue large numbers of defendants in a single case.

The probability of wrongful convictions is increased by increasing numbers of defendants in the courts without lawyers, which is due to: (a) very poor government funding of legal aid programs; and, (b) law societies» failure to attempt to solve the unaffordable legal services problem — the one aggravates the damage done by the other.

Some stakeholders GAO interviewed said that the increase in 2011 was most likely influenced by the anticipation of changes in the 2011 Leahy - Smith America Invents Act (AIA), which made several significant changes to the U.S. patent system, including limiting the number of defendants in a lawsuit, causing some plaintiffs that would have previously filed a single lawsuit with multiple defendants to break the lawsuit into multiple lawsuits.

Limits noneconomic damages in medical liability cases to a nonadjustable limit of $ 350,000 regardless of the number of defendants in the case.

The GAO report determined that the number of defendants in these suits - many of them end - users - has exploded, increasing 129 % from 2007 to 2011.

Not exact matches

Using a barrage of Freedom of Information Act lawsuits, TRAC has been able to gather data buried in the Justice Department's own computer files (minus the individual case numbers that might be used to identify defendants).

A report last month from the U.S. Government Accountability Office found that between 2007 and 2011 the «number of overall defendants in patent infringement lawsuits increased by about 129 percent.»

Additionally, he thinks the U.S. Department of Labor's new fiduciary rule will widen the number of defendants who are named in these lawsuits.

Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company was engaged in predatory lending practices that saddled subprime borrowers and / or those with poor or limited credit histories with high - interest rate debt that they could not repay; (ii) many of the Company's customers were using Qudian - provided loans to repay their existing loans, thereby inflating the Company's revenues and active borrower numbers and increasing the likelihood of defaults; (iii) the Company was providing online loans to college students despite a governmental ban on the practice; (iv) the Company was engaged overly aggressive and improper collection practices; (v) the Company had understated the number of its non-performing loans in the Registration Statement and Prospectus; (vi) because of the Company's improper lending, underwriting and collection practices it was subject to a heightened risk of adverse actions by Chinese regulators; (vii) the Company's largest sales platform and strategic partner, Alipay, and Ant Financial, could unilaterally cap the APR for loans provided by Qudian; (viii) the Company had failed to implement necessary safeguards to protect customer data; (ix) data for nearly one million Company customers had been leaked for sale to the black market, including names, addresses, phone numbers, loan information, accounts and, in some cases, passwords to CHIS, the state - backed higher - education qualification verification institution in China, subjecting the Company to undisclosed risks of penalties and financial and reputational harm; and (x) as a result of the foregoing, Qudian's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.

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.

The number of JR cases received by each UK government department can be found in this database of JR cases from 2007 to 2012, which lists over 57,000 JR applications, giving the topic, defendant and outcome of each case.

Such a lying and misleading candidate... She is the number one violator of civilian civil rights in NYS states the DOJ... Her office has continuously embellished facts on criminal matters and charges of defendants.

The witness, who was led in evidence by the prosecuting counsel, Mr, Sylvanus Tahir, insisted that there was no limit to the amount of dollars he could buy or sell, saying he did not transact the business with Metuh but with Nneka who he said gave him the account number of the 2nd defendant.

The number of people executed in the United States this year dropped to the lowest level since 1991, as states impose fewer death sentences and defendants in capital cases get access to better legal help.

Lawyers for the defendants deny the charges and have been seeking to toss the case on a number of grounds over the past year, including court decisions in unrelated public corruption cases.

In counts three and four, the defendant alongside others now at large, were accused of conspiring to impersonate a public officer and unlawfully postured as the Lagos State Deputy Governor by calling and sending SMS on a mobile number 09064583091 to the public as the said Deputy Governor contrary to and punishable under Sections 380 and 411 of the Criminal Law Cap C17, Vol 3, Laws of Lagos State, 2015.

According to the Minister in a suit number 6 / 577/2016, filed at the High Court of the federal Capital territory in the Abuja Judicial Division, is seeking among others, payment of an aggravated damages to the tune of N3billion, (N2 billion against Lere Olayinka, the first defendant and another N1bilion aggravated damages against Dr Omotoso, the second defendant).

He said investigation into the crime was still ongoing, with police in the process of tracking down other suspects, but that the defendant was hurriedly charged to court in view of the provision of the Constitution as to number of days to detain him in custody.

Other defendants in this case include Kelly, a former executive with Competitive Power Ventures (CPV), which has for years been developing a controversial gas - fired power plant in Orange County, N.Y., while successfully pushing one in Oxford; and Steven Aiello and Joseph Gerardi, top executives with COR Development of Syracuse, which secured contracts on a number of projects initiated by Albany - based SUNY Polytechnic Institute.

In the new charges with number FHC / ABJ / CR / 383/2015, the four defendants were accused of conspiracy to commit treasonable felony contrary to section 516 of the Criminal Code Act, CAP.

But in the amended charges filed by the new Director of Public Prosecutions of the Federation, Mr. Umar Mohammed, the National Coordinator of IPOB member, Mr. Chidiebere Onwudiwe, was added to the defendants, bringing the number of accused persons to four.

«In 2012 alone over 250 judicial opinions — more than double the number in 2007 — cited defendants arguing in some form or another that their «brains made them do it,»» according to an analysis by Nita Farahany, a law professor and director of Duke University's Initiative for Science and SocietIn 2012 alone over 250 judicial opinions — more than double the number in 2007 — cited defendants arguing in some form or another that their «brains made them do it,»» according to an analysis by Nita Farahany, a law professor and director of Duke University's Initiative for Science and Societin 2007 — cited defendants arguing in some form or another that their «brains made them do it,»» according to an analysis by Nita Farahany, a law professor and director of Duke University's Initiative for Science and Societin some form or another that their «brains made them do it,»» according to an analysis by Nita Farahany, a law professor and director of Duke University's Initiative for Science and Society.

Apple and the first five of the «big - six» publishers to adopt agency pricing — all of them except Random House, I'll call them the «big five» here — are the defendants in a number of lawsuits.

Because the callers had this information — which often included Social Security or bank account numbers — and because many of the victims already were in a tenuous financial situation, they often believed that they owed the defendants the money, according to the FTC.

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.»

«The shocking conditions and sheer number of animals in the defendants» home make this a particularly disturbing case of animal abuse,» San Diego District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis said in a press release.

«These defendants were betting between $ 5,000 and $ 200,000 on one dogfight,» stated U.S. Attorney George L. Beck, Jr. «The number of dogs seized and the amount of money involved this in case shows how extensive this underworld of dogfighting is.

In that Agreement, Defendants promised, among other things, (i) to use the CryEngine game development platform exclusively and to promote that platform within the video game, (ii) to collaborate with Crytek on CryEngine development, and (iii) to take a number of steps to ensure that Crytek's intellectual property was protected.

Addressing another alternative — regulating only tailpipe GHG emissions in California — Defendants speculate that it «may result in greater emissions overall,» though CARB stated that GHG emissions could be reduced by «increasing vehicle efficiency» or «reducing the number of vehicle miles traveled.»

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.

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.

Since then, and particularly in recent years, there have been a large number of initiatives designed to curb costs, such as limiting Legal Aid, and the removal of the ability to claim so - called additional liabilities in «no win, no fee» agreements - from paying defendants, costs budgeting and the use of alternative dispute resolution.

Earlier this month, an appellate court in Georgia issued a written opinion in a premises liability lawsuit brought by a number of people who were injured when the rear deck of a home owned by the defendant and rented to several of the plaintiffs disconnected from the home and fell to the ground.

The Claimants obtained worldwide freezing orders against a large number of defendants said to have been involved in the fraud and the disposal of the proceeds and successfully defended a jurisdictional challenge by certain defendants.

Young Legal Aid Lawyers co-chairs Oliver Carter and Rachel Francis presented an introduction to YLAL and a brief history of legal aid, from the Poor Prisoners Defence Act 1903, which introduced criminal legal aid for defendants in the higher criminal courts, to the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 («LASPO»), which wholly or partially removed a number of areas of law from the scope of legal aid.

Now, Marty Schwimmer at The Trademark Blog reports that Mister Softee filed suit this week in federal court in Manhattan against a number of defendants.

As it noted, CDA 1998 and relevant other provisions provide a number of safeguards for defendants including: consultation requirements; that the behaviour in question must have occurred no more than six months before the complaint; and a right of appeal to the Crown Court by way of rehearing.

As discussed in Sexting and age, in NSW there are a number of defences, the most relevant being: Innocent possession: the defendant did not know, and could not reasonably be expected to have known, that he or she possessed... Approved research: was necessary for or of assistance in conducting scientific, medical or educational research that has been...

The defendant argued that the circuit had been used for motor racing for a number of years before the claimants had bought their properties and that they were not entitled to complain about a feature of the neighbourhood which they knew about, or should have known about, when they moved in.

In a pre-trial hearing, Keighley allowed the defendants to make a number of amendments to their response to the civil claim.

[The researchers] estimate that for New York City, their algorithm's advice could cut crime by defendants awaiting trial by as much as 25 percent without changing the numbers of people waiting in jail.

l The claimant alleged that a number of funds transfers were made by the defendant in breach of mandate, and denied that certain alleged phone calls and e-mails took place.

I am sure a number of defendants now appealing punishments that include also a prison term will be glad to have the top executive now defining what sorts of alternatives to imprisonment are sufficient in his view.

This can be especially useful in personal injury law, where the number of Defendants can be high and their physical whereabouts unclear.

Later, prevailing defendant moved for $ 89,460.90 in fees (including all of its efforts in the case based on a contractual fees clause), with the trial judge deciding the fee number was $ 66,333.72.

A large number of pleadings were exchanged before, the second defendant issued an application in the TCC to transfer the case from the county court to the TCC under CPR 30.3 (2) and para 2.1 of CPR Pt 60 PD.

One of the first things we saw is the defendants had to walk in and tell the clerk their number, which they were supposed to have gotten from a list on the wall outside.

In the case of Google vs. Equustek, some weeks back a Canadian Supreme Court ordered Google to eliminate a number of search results from a previous distributor that was reportedly using its sites to sell, illegally, the defendant Equustek Solutions's IP.

In the case of large corporations doing business nationwide, this usually meant that a plaintiff had a large number of states to choose from in which a defendant could be sued on any matter whatsoever which also facilitated the filing of class action lawsuits with plaintiffs from all over the world covered by a single lawsuiIn the case of large corporations doing business nationwide, this usually meant that a plaintiff had a large number of states to choose from in which a defendant could be sued on any matter whatsoever which also facilitated the filing of class action lawsuits with plaintiffs from all over the world covered by a single lawsuiin which a defendant could be sued on any matter whatsoever which also facilitated the filing of class action lawsuits with plaintiffs from all over the world covered by a single lawsuit.