Sentences with phrase «of alleged harms»

WASHINGTON — The Dodd - Frank Act has become the catchall for a litany of alleged harms, not the least of which is the decline of small banks.

A medical malpractice plaintiff needs to prove that a doctor - patient relationship was in existence at the time of alleged harm, that the healthcare practitioner did not live up to the appropriate standard of care and that the injuries suffered were directly caused by that failure.

The question is not whether the plaintiff can obtain the precise remedy she seeks through the court; it is whether she can obtain effective redress of the alleged harm through the mandatory arbitration provisions of the collective agreement and the Code.

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Christopher Dietz and his Washington, D.C. - based company, Dietz Development, filed suit in October against Jane Perez alleging that Perez made defamatory statements about Dietz on Yelp and Angie's List that harmed his reputation and business to the tune of $ 750,000.

Their first major campaign will be a series of ads aimed at parents and teenagers warning about the alleged psychological harm inflicted by spending too much time on social media.

Shortly thereafter, Daniels added a complaint in her lawsuit against Cohen, alleging defamation when on February 13 he stated in reference to claims of an affair that, «Just because something isn't true doesn't mean it can't cause you harm or damage,» implying that Daniels is lying about the affair.

While Fredrickson is not one of the firm's general partners, he found himself embroiled in the Uber conflict last month when one of Kalanick's closest allies, Uber investor Shervin Pishevar, alleged that Fredrickson was willing to harm the $ 70 billion company in order to staff other startups that he allegedly backed.

«[Wheaton College] has failed to show that delaying a judgment in its favor to the conclusion of proceedings in the district court would do the college any harm... The college has also failed to match the relief it seeks to the illegalities it alleges... the government isn't using the college's health plans, as we have explained at perhaps excessive length.»

There can be no harm in setting a terminological locus for alleged distinctions, admitting that they may assume every value of significance from zero to infinity; but there is very definite harm in depriving apparent distinctions of terminological and systematic locus, since their value is then determined as zero by fiat.

Silvers lawyers two weeks ago claimed that statements Bharara made about the charges — which allege Silver lined his pockets with nearly $ 4 million in bribes and kickbacks in a stunning abuse of power dating to at least 2000 — «caused irreparable harm by tainting» the grand jury that indicted him on Feb. 19.

The lawyers filed a motion to dismiss the charges — which allege Silver lined his pockets with nearly $ 4 million in bribes and kickbacks in a stunning abuse of power dating to at least 2000 — claiming public statements that Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara made about the case «caused irreparable harm by tainting» the grand jury that indicted him on Feb. 19.

Of the prosecution's allegations of harm done by the alleged bid - rigging scheme, one of the defense lawyers called it «entirely speculative and metaphysical.&raquOf the prosecution's allegations of harm done by the alleged bid - rigging scheme, one of the defense lawyers called it «entirely speculative and metaphysical.&raquof harm done by the alleged bid - rigging scheme, one of the defense lawyers called it «entirely speculative and metaphysical.&raquof the defense lawyers called it «entirely speculative and metaphysical.»

A federal appeals court halted the release of a list of alleged co-conspirators in the 2013 George Washington Bridge lane closures after an anonymous person named on the list said its release would harm the person's reputation.

The state has agreed to hire a monitor and a research expert to serve as watchdogs of the New York City foster care system to settle a federal class - action lawsuit that alleges foster children are enduring irreparable harm after lingering too long without permanent families.

That makes this the first case in New York state where the injury from an alleged crime consists of harm to a corporation's reputation, Porter says.

«The «harm» is the defendant's alleged actions constitute a felony offense, and undermines the integrity of the political process.»

Last Thursday the House ethics committee accused Rep. Charles Rangel of 13 violations of House rules involving alleged financial wrongdoing and harming the credibility of Congress.

Rangel has come under fire for alleged financial wrongdoing and harming the credibility of Congress, according to the ethics complaint.

I got a free sample of maca root powder which is alleged to taste terrible but is supposed to cause hormonal enhancement that would cause the more pulchritudinous ladies to tug more prodigiously upon one's venereal strings, and not do any harm to muscle to body fat ratio.

If one or more of our members suffers or alleges to have suffered physical, financial, emotional or other harm following contact initiated on our platform or an online dating website of one of our competitors, any resulting negative publicity or legal action could harm our reputation and business and may have an adverse effect on us and the reputation of the online dating industry in general, potentially leading to, among other things, increased government scrutiny and regulation and an adverse effect on our business, financial condition and operating results.

Critics of ESAs and other school choice efforts like to allege that the programs will «siphon» resources from public schools or harm students in some way.

Lawsuits filed by the United Federation of Teachers and the NAACP alleged that the closures were carelessly orchestrated and would do students harm.

The Department of Justice did not even allege that the program would harm these students or any others.

It's hard to know, say many observers, how publishers can continue to justify contractual conditions alleged to harm authors to the benefit of the corporations.

This varies greatly by state and the type of harm alleged, of course.

The central plank of their criticism is that Ms. Quinn's alleged actions (and it must be stressed these are still only allegations) caused harm to games journalism by allegedly eliciting more positive review scores for her game Depression Quest.

There is of course more, but I'm going to stop because I realize that while all this is good evidence for harms caused by anthropogenic climate change in general, to be really relevant to the topic at hand, we should be looking at the specific harms alleged by the plaintiffs in the suit over which judge Alsup is presiding.

This is especially true when such harms have an alleged disparate impact on a discrete class of society.

The $ 30 million overhaul was made without installing, as required under the New Source Review requirements of the Clean Air Act, the best available technology to minimize emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides — pollutants that harm human health by contributing to heart attacks, breathing problems, and other health problems, the suit alleges.

It is increasingly clear that those who warned of global warming doom have not first attemped to understand the drivers of climate, and have exaggerated both the link between CO2 and warming and the alleged net harm which might arise from it.

In the Illinois ruling, Judge Shah said «The alleged harm to out - of - state power generators who will be competing in auctions against subsidized participants is not clearly excessive» when considered against «weighty and traditional areas of permissible state regulation.»

Like the handful of cities and counties in New York and California that have sued the energy industry over the past year, the three Colorado municipalities allege that they have been harmed by the impacts of climate change — impacts they have helped cause.

This factor is not concerned with how intimate the plaintiff and defendant were or with their physical proximity, so much as with whether the actions of the alleged wrongdoer have a close or direct effect on the victim, such that the wrongdoer ought to have had the victim in mind as a person potentially harmed.

Besides infringement, the suit had alleged infliction of emotional distress, cyberstalking, and online impersonation with intent to cause harm.

Plaintiffs began filing lawsuits across the country claiming the filters caused harm and death, alleging manufacturers» negligence, failure to warn, design defects, manufacturing defects, breach of implied warranty and negligent misrepresentation on the part the companies and their subsidiaries.

The current version of s. 163.1 (6) states: «No person shall be convicted of an offence under this section if the act that is alleged to constitute the offence (a) has a legitimate purpose related to the administration of justice or to science, medicine, education or art; and (b) does not pose an undue risk of harm to persons under the age of eighteen years.»

The simplest way to apply the concept of proximate cause to legal malpractice is to ask whether, «but for» the alleged negligence, the harm or injury would have occurred?

Generally, no person shall be convicted of an offence under section 163.1 of the Criminal Code if the act that is alleged to constitute the offence has a legitimate purpose related to the administration of justice or to science, medicine, education or art; and does not pose an undue risk of harm to persons under the age of eighteen years.

Secured complete dismissal of criminal charges of mail fraud, false ERISA statements, and other charges brought in federal court against small business owners amounting to $ 2 million in alleged but unproven harm.

To be successful, you must prove that the negligence being alleged was the cause of the harm you are claiming compensation for.

In a March 31 statement of claim, Dr. Mohamed Foda alleges the postings were not made by actual patients of his, but by someone who has a «malicious» motive to harm his medical business, and states he will seek to identify the unknown defendants by searching for their computer identifying information.

Whether the alleged exposure involves air, water, soil or groundwater, when a plaintiff or group of plaintiffs brings an environmental exposure claim, an experienced California toxic lawyer at our firm will launch a thorough investigation to determine whether an exposure actually occurred and, if so, the extent to which the exposure may have caused the illness or other harms alleged by the plaintiffs.

So Mr Habib sued the Australian Government for the torts of misfeasance in public office and of intentional infliction of indirect harm by its officials when they aided and abetted his alleged torture.

We've been working to raise awareness of emerging reports relating to alleged Taxotere hair loss and the harm this development inflicts on women.

Before this court, the local authority's understanding of their own case and the principles to be applied where significant harm has been suffered by a child and where the mechanism for that and / or its alleged perpetration is one of the facts in issue in the proceedings, can only be described as worrying.»

Here, the Court ruled that the Bier rule would grant jurisdiction to the courts of the Member State where the publisher is established (i.e. the place where the event giving rise to the harm occurred), or before the courts where the newspapers were (physically) distributed and where the victim alleges to have suffered harm (i.e. the place where the damage occurred).

Altus also alleged that Gordon did not disclose lending money to a company with which Altus was doing business thereby making Gordon guilty of a conflict of interest to the harm of Altus.

It excludes minor or even moderate harm.19 Because there is no exact definition of what constitutes «great bodily harm»... it is actually determined on a case - by - case basis20... overzealous prosecutors have a tendency to allege it every chance they get.

The alleged harm must not arise simply due to the «complainant's interest as part of the collectivity of shareholders».

Since the alleged harm had already occurred before the sixth lawyer took over the case, Frost Brown Todd then claimed that none of its lawyers or even the firm itself has any liability.