Sentences with phrase «of defendants»

Nearly 70 % of defendants — and over 75 % of all litigants — go to court without a lawyer.

One of the defendants in a case I heard today was chewing gum and blew a very large bubble and popped it «whilst looking my direction [sic]!!!»

We conclude that neither that crime nor any similar one was foreseeable, and thus affirm the district court's grant of summary judgment in favor of the defendants.

Each of the defendants named in the California case has made public statements accepting that human emissions contribute to climate change, and that climate change poses various risks, including to their businesses --

Norton, who sued «Big Tobacco» as Colorado's Attorney General in the late «90's, explained that «about the only thing that «Big Tobacco» and «Big Oil» have in common, however, are the deep pockets of the defendants.»

ExxonMobil, one of the defendants of the municipalities» lawsuits, filed a petition in a Texas District Court in January describing dramatic inconsistencies between the municipalities» disclosure of climate risks in their bonds and their allegations of past and future damage from climate change in their lawsuits.

Arguably, several of defendants» statements fall into these protected categories.

The instinct of the defendants in these cases has been to address # 2.

«We intend to use his deposition to uncover his and others» culpability, on behalf of these defendants.»

In their brief, the CEI Defendants suggest that the University of East Anglia's investigation actually found that the hockey stick graph was «misleading» because it did not identify that certain data was «truncated» and that other proxy and instrumental temperature data had been spliced together... This allegation is yet another example of Defendants» attempts to obfuscate the evidence in this case.

In Hawaii, TASC's case has already been dismissed with a report stating: that the judge's «ruling in favor of the Defendants has eviscerated TASC's claims.»

The case involves separate allegations against two separate sets of defendants (Rand Simberg / CEI and Mark Steyn / NRO).

In her view, both sets of defendants made statements that alleged or implied facts that could be defamatory or otherwise actionable, e.g. that Mann engaged in fraud or other disreputable conduct.

At least three of the recent lawsuits mention the Global Climate Coalition (GCC), a now - defunct organization whose membership included several of the defendants.

Between Gary and Don, the Court heard from Theodore Boutrous, a lawyer speaking on behalf of Chevron, one of the defendants.

A lawyer for one of the defendants says his client denies all charges.

In this land's courtrooms, séance trials decide the fate of all defendants.

Crytek has demanded «all direct damages (estimated to be in excess of $ 75,000), indirect damages, consequential damages (including lost profits), special damages, costs, fees, and expenses incurred by reason of Defendants» breach of contract and copyright infringement» as well as a cut of the profit, punitive damages, and a permanent injunction against CIG's use of CryEngine.

Judgment is entered in favor of Defendants Microsoft Corporation, Electronic Arts Inc., Harmonix Music Systems, Inc., Majesco Entertainment Co., Ubisoft Inc., and Nintendo of America Inc.'s (collectively «Defendants») on Plaintiff Richard J. Baker's («Baker») claims for infringement pursuant to the Court's ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANTS» MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT (D.I. 135) dated January 3, 2017 and filed on January 4, 2017.

Phoenix finds himself in a brand new courtroom where mysterious séance trials decide the fate of all defendants.

In the ever - continuing lawsuit for the ages, the court involved in Activision v. Zampella and West case agreed to the former's initiative to add rival publisher Electronic Arts to the list of defendants.

«This is a class action arising out of Defendants» failure to perform the material terms of an offer made to Plaintiff and other consumers comprising the class for a Starwood Preferred Guest («SPG»)- branded American Express credit card; namely, the promise of 35,000 hotel loyalty points, called SPG Starpoints, in exchange for $ 5,000.00 in qualifying purchases made to the card during the first six months after issuance,» Heilman said in the filing.

She asserts that prior to trial one of the defendants came to the Plaintiff's place of employment (a banking facility with video surveillance) as well as on separate occasions approached and intimidated her all in violation of a restraining order.

They do not challenge either the decision to use passive investments or index funds, but say the fiduciary breaches relate to which underlying investments were used — a determination that fell squarely within the scope of the defendants» fiduciary duties.

Some states have responded by outlawing the imprisonment of defendants in debt cases even if they never appear in court.

A phenomenal array of promotional pricing programs such as the Kindle Daily Deal, the long - awaited opening of zero - price promotions to KDP authors, the Kindle Owners» Lending Library, and Amazon's monthly offering of 100 Kindle Books for $ 3.99 or Less put the spotlight on those places and rubbed the Defendants» noses in what they were missing to such an extent that one wouldn't blame some of the Defendants if they had breathed a sigh of relief when the anti-trust lawyers came knocking on the door to save the Defendants from themselves.

Whether or not the publishers» corporate counsel were earning their keep back in early 2010, there are certainly some serious legal costs now as all of the Defendants are being represented in federal court by some of the highest - billing law firms in the country.

It was announced on April 11, 2012 that two of the Defendants had settled with these states to create a $ 51 million restitution pot for ebook customers.

But it turns out, according to the court documents, that none of the Defendants» CEOs brought their corporate counsel along to the secret conspirators» meetings that they held regularly at ritzy Manhattan eateries beginning in September 2008.

In this case, because of the Defendants» collusion, consumers paid millions more than they would otherwise have had to pay for ebooks.

While there is precedent for filing the suit against all of the defendants together, other similar cases have resulted in a judge ordering that there be separate trials for each defendant, making the plaintiff much less likely to sue each offender.

Once the lawsuit goes forward the internet service providers can be subpoenaed to provide the actual names of the defendants, but for now their identities are unknown.

Amazon was caught in the crossfire of the suit and received the bulk of the criticism, as supporters of the defendants claimed the price fixing was necessary to «take down» Amazon.

All of us involved in the case — recall that Jesse Rothstein and I served as the expert witnesses on behalf of the plaintiffs, and Thomas Kane of the Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) Project and John Friedman of the infamous Chetty et al. studies (see here and here) served as the expert witnesses on behalf of the defendants — knew that all of the plaintiffs» claims would be tough to win given all of the constitutional legal standards would be difficult for plaintiffs to satisfy (e.g., that evaluating teachers using their value - added scores was not «unreasonable» was difficult to prove, as it was in the Tennessee case we also fought and was then dismissed on similar grounds (see here)-RRB-.

None of the defendants had responded to the complaint by the end of the day Tuesday, according to Jade Scott with the Orleans Parish Clerk of Court.

The vast majority of defendants in Orleans Parish who are released from jail under financial conditions purchase bail bonds.

In a series of emotional exchanges with defense attorneys, Baxter seemed disgusted that more of the defendants hadn't chosen to admit guilt in exchange for leniency.

The testimony supports a major contention of the defendants, that it's not exclusively the caliber of teachers that affects learning; it is also external conditions that bear on a student's ability to learn.

As also highlighted in both of these articles is that as one of the defendants» witnesses, the Superintendent of the Roswell Independent School District testified in favor of the state's model.

It is undeniable that those participating in the cheating related activities committed not just one crime, but many of the defendants committed a series of crimes.

No, the result was that the appeals court reversed the denial of the defendants» motion for dismissal and vacated the injunction.

But the lawyer representing one of the defendants said he would file suit within the next few months to test whether district boundaries can be used to deny parents from the inner city the opportunity to provide a high - quality education for their children.

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney — Spirit of Justice: The new game puts the legendary attorney in the Kingdom of Khura'in, where mysterious séance trials decide the fate of all defendants.

In Englands trial of the century, most of the defendants walk free.

The goal of all of these efforts is to improve the fairness and effectiveness of the criminal justice system — not only by distinguishing between appropriate and inappropriate uses of neuroscientific evidence, but also by using neuroscientific techniques to enrich understanding of the decisions and behavior of defendants, judges and jurors.

The prosecutor in Padua, where the case against a different group of defendants resides, has asked to dismiss all charges as well.

The researchers found that more than one - third of defendants used the victimization and appeals to good character techniques between one and 12 times per day of testimony.

After gathering photos of defendants eligible for the death penalty, all convicted in Philadelphia between 1979 and 1999, Stanford University psychologist Jennifer Eberhardt and her team asked students to rate how «stereotypically black» each person looked.

Dressel randomly selected 1000 of the defendants and recorded seven pieces of information about each, including their age, sex, and number of previous arrests.

Eberhardt found that 57.5 percent of defendants rated as stereotypically black (with traits including darker skin and a broader nose) had received the death penalty, compared with only 24.4 percent of those judged less stereotypically black.