Sentences with phrase «of court cases by»

Reminds me of the court case by the Italian Government against the Italian seismologists who failed to forecast a disastrous earthquake several years ago.

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And the Viacom CEO is caught in a Catch - 22 of his own making: Earlier this year, he maintained in a court case launched by the billionaire's former girlfriend that Redstone was fully capable of making decisions.

The Air Force Court of Appeals in May 2017 also reversed a conviction in the sexual assault case U.S. v. Boyce after finding that public statements by Sens. Claire McCaskill and Kirsten Gillibrand regarding the «Marines United» scandal earlier this year created «the appearance of unlawful command influence» in the case, as retired Col. Don Christensen, a former Air Force chief prosecutor and current president of the advocacy group Protect Our Defenders, told Task & Purpose at the time.

Gillibrand was endorsed Tuesday by End Citizens United, a political action committee established in 2015 to push back against the results of the 2010 court case.

GENEVA — Russian billionaire and Chelsea soccer club owner Roman Abramovich has appeared in a Swiss court as part of a 19 - year - old legal case aimed to wrest 46 million Swiss francs in debts allegedly owed by him and others to a European bank.

A judge ruled in favor of the House in 2016, but an appeal filed by the Obama administration allowed the CSR payments to continue as the case moved its way through the courts.

The court case revealed a series of convoluted legal infractions performed by Amanat and Tuzman in their work with the presently insolvent video - technology company, KIT Digital, a former multi-million dollar leader in the cloud - based video management industry.

The decision by NB Liquor comes just days after the Supreme Court of Canada ruled in the case of Gerard Comeau who was fined in 2012 for bringing home cheaper beer and liquor he bought in neighbouring Quebec.

It is asking the Irish High Court to refer the case to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), which would then decide whether to ban the use of «model contracts» — common legal arrangements used by thousands of firms to transfer personal data outside the 28 - nation bloc.

In the case of the U.S., our own Supreme Court has already defined greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act as dangerous pollutants that must be regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency.

That may all change by this coming summer, when the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule on two cases that have the potential to rebalance the scales in favor of small businesses.

GENEVA (AP)-- Russian billionaire and Chelsea soccer club owner Roman Abramovich has appeared in a Swiss court as part of a 19 - year - old legal case aimed to wrest 46 million Swiss francs ($ 46 million) in debts allegedly owed by him and others to a European bank.

And for 27 years, before he was elected sheriff, he presided over court cases — ones that increasingly involved the stories of lives undone by drugs and poverty, and of an opioid epidemic taking root.

Timothy Lee Hurst, a convicted murderer in Florida v. Hurst, the case before the court, was deemed fit for capital punishment by one of Florida's courts, even though psychologists determined that he was intellectually disabled.

The case being led by Texas and filed at the Federal Court in the Southern District of Texas said the executive order announced by Obama last month violated constitutional limits on presidential powers.

In his 2005 decision in the Disney shareholder case, Chancellor Chandler served up a stern warning to boards of directors according to a report by Reuters: «If neither the courts nor the markets are able to restrain executive compensation... the result will be imposition of regulatory controls.

DUBLIN, May 2 - Ireland's High Court refused a request by Facebook to delay a referral of a landmark privacy case to Europe's top court on Wednesday, ordering its immediate refeCourt refused a request by Facebook to delay a referral of a landmark privacy case to Europe's top court on Wednesday, ordering its immediate refecourt on Wednesday, ordering its immediate referral.

«This case has already been dismissed with prejudice by the court that heard it, which ruled in Yelp's favor and also found the claims not to be supported by credible evidence,» Vince Sollitto, Yelp's vice president of communications said.

It wasn't till the landmark 1967 case of Katz v. the United States that the right to privacy was recognized by the U.S. Supreme Court.

The ruling by U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Steven Rhodes, who is overseeing the historic case, came more than two months after the start of a hearing to determine whether the 1,165 - page plan was fair to creditors and feasible for the city to implement.

Meanwhile, other big digital newcomers to the media scene, including BuzzFeed and Business Insider, have also been slow to take up the public interest banner long carried by the likes of the New York Times and the Press - Enterprise (a small California paper that, as Liptak explained, took two free speech cases all the way to the Supreme Court in the 1980s).

In a one - sentence order, the court said it would decide a case brought by conservative challengers of the law.

Court of Appeals Judge Eugene Pigott issued a separate opinion in the cases, concurring with the results but saying the state's definition of parenthood should properly be set by the legislature.

NEW DELHI / MUMBAI, Feb 27 - A company owned by Nirav Modi, the billionaire jeweler at the heart of a $ 2 billion fraud case in India, has filed for bankruptcy in a New York court, as investigators stepped up their investigation into a case that has stunned the country.

China's top court has ruled in favor of French fashion house Christian Dior in a perfume bottle trademark case, and rapped the local trademark office for rejecting an application by the firm.

A New York Court of Appeals is set to hear a case brought by Microsoft in response to a search warrant for emails that are on a server in Ireland.

In an August 10, 2009 hearing before Judge Rakoff in a case involving alleged disclosure issues at Bank of America (bac), Rakoff responded to the SEC's evasiveness by stating: «You are not going to be particularly effective with this court by telling me what I already know, namely, that you filed a rather uninformative bare bones complaint.»

Earlier this year, the Ohio Supreme Court agreed to hear a case challenging the use of the mortgage law by a payday lender named Cashland.

The judicial system does not track civil cases filed in circuit court by the section of law cited, but he does not remember hearing of any lawsuit based on the disparagement law being filed in circuit court anywhere in South Dakota.

The decision by the state's Court of Appeals is the latest victory for the New York attorney general's office, which has been pursuing the case for 11 years.

Ireland's High Court has refused a request by Facebook to delay referral to Europe's top court of a landmark privacy Court has refused a request by Facebook to delay referral to Europe's top court of a landmark privacy court of a landmark privacy case.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters)- A lawsuit filed by drivers against ride service Uber should not proceed as a class action, the company argued in a court filing on Thursday, citing written statements of support from hundreds of other Uber drivers in a case that could decide whether they are independent contractors or employees.

«Because Congress did not have a «strong basis of evidence» upon which to conclude that DoD was a passive participant in pervasive, nationwide racial discrimination — at least not on the evidence produced by DoD and relied on by the district court in this case — the statute fails strict scrutiny,» the decision stated.

Despite the fact that at least five of the judges involved in the two appeal court judgements were originally appointed to lower courts by Brian Mulroney's Conservative government, Harper insisted: «It was the government that decided to put the judges on the bench, the government that decided not to appeal, the government that decided to lose the case and the government that decided not to come back to Parliament.

The court's decision to hear the case was welcomed by Sam Kazman, general counsel of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a libertarian think tank that is funding the litigation.

DUBLIN Facebook bid on Monday to block referral of a landmark privacy case to Europe's top court by requesting a last - ditch appeal, seeking to avoid a potential ban on the legal instrument it uses to transfer users» data to the United States.

The French decision follows the May ruling by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in the case of Mario Costeja González, a Spanish man who succeeded in ordering Google to remove links to an old article saying that his home was being repossessed to pay off debts.

In the case - related court documents acquired by Forbes, Geeksphone is disputing an amount of $ 5 million that Silent Circle supposedly owes.

Of the five lawsuits filed against DOL, a Topeka, Kansas court will hold the first hearing on Aug. 24 in the case brought by insurer Market Synergy.

The Department of Justice defended the rule when it filed papers in July in a Washington district court arguing against the case filed by the National Association for Fixed Annuities.

VANCOUVER — British Columbia's court case over the flow of heavy oil through the province could be damaged by the NDP government's previous positions against the expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline, says a legal expert.

On October 13, 2017, the Delaware Court of Chancery dismissed a case brought by the blockchain firm R3 Holdco against Ripple Labs, another company active in the space, ruling that the court lacked jurisdiction to hear the lawCourt of Chancery dismissed a case brought by the blockchain firm R3 Holdco against Ripple Labs, another company active in the space, ruling that the court lacked jurisdiction to hear the lawcourt lacked jurisdiction to hear the lawsuit.

While predatory pricing technically remains illegal, it is extremely difficult to win predatory pricing claims because courts now require proof that the alleged predator would be able to raise prices and recoup its losses.405 Revising predatory pricing doctrine to reflect the economics of platform markets, where firms can sink money for years given unlimited investor backing, would require abandoning the recoupment requirement in cases of below - cost pricing by dominant platforms.

In Brooke Group Ltd. v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp., 98 the Supreme Court formalized this premise into a doctrinal test.The case involved cigarette manufacturing, an industry dominated by six firms.99 Liggett, one of the six, introduced a line of generic cigarettes, which it sold for about 30 % less than the price of branded cigarettes.100 Liggett alleged that when it became clear that its generics were diverting business from branded cigarettes, Brown & Williamson, a competing manufacturer, began selling its own generics at a loss.101 Liggett sued, claiming that Brown & Williamson's tactic was designed to pressure Liggett to raise prices on its generics, thus enabling Brown & Williamson to maintain high profits on branded cigarettes.

The coalition against the pipeline is already challenging the first permit granted to ETP by the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources with a case filed by the Tulane Environmental Law Clinic, with a court date set for Jan. 4, 2018.

B.C. Environment Minister George Heyman announced Wednesday that his government would file a reference case with the B.C. Court of Appeal by the end of the month to test whether the province has the constitutional authority to limit imports of diluted bitumen from Alberta.

Sellers are required to disclose «facts materially affecting the value of the property which are not readily observable and are not known to the buyer,» according to Johnson vs. Davis, a Florida Supreme Court case quoted by the Florida Realtors association.

The federal judge overseeing the case in Texas against the Department of Labor's fiduciary rule on Wednesday denied considering all but two of the eight amicus briefs filed in the court, allowing only the briefs filed by the Financial Planning Coalition and the American Association for Justice.

«Based on the advice of counsel, I will assert my 5th Amendment rights in connection with all proceedings in this case due to the ongoing criminal investigation by the FBI and U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York,» Cohen wrote in the filing in Los Angeles federal court.

DUBLIN (Reuters)- Facebook bid on Monday to block referral of a landmark privacy case to Europe's top court by requesting a last - ditch appeal, seeking to avoid a potential ban on the legal instrument it uses to transfer users» data to the United States.