Sentences with phrase «of legal fighting»

Diller said he was giving up on the project last month following years of legal fighting and roughly $ 40 million of pre-construction costs.

These types of legal fights may show where Uber has the most room to grow in terms of acting mature as a company.

In a statement on the site, founder Pamela Jones cited the move by Lavabit founder Ladar Levinson to shut down his encrypted email service because of a legal fight with the government.

It's now the center of a legal fight tinged with allegations of racial and religious prejudices.

After all, the NBA is one of the main sponsors of the legal fight to stop sports betting in New Jersey.

Threats of a legal fight have already emerged, especially as native groups look to a series of high - profile spills — including two in the U.S. last summer from Enbridge lines — as evidence that pipelines pose substantial environmental risk.At Enbridge's meeting Geraldine Thomas - Flurer, who co-ordinates the anti-pipeline Yinka Dene Alliance, warned chief executive officer Pat Daniel of what is to come.

But without judging the final outcome of that legal fight, the Supreme Court's decision still gives some idea as to how fossil fuel companies might be sued for climate damages in courts around the world, and those damages orders then enforced in Canada and elsewhere.

Wilsons Solicitors have lost the latest stage of their legal fight to stop a former managing partner bringing a whistleblower claim.

Not exact matches

The state government will introduce legislation into parliament tomorrow designed to finalise the long - running Bell Group legal case, in which the Insurance Commission of WA and other creditors are fighting over a $ 1.7 billion payout.

A political opponent of Cambodia Prime Minister Hun Sen wants Facebook to hand over information that might help him fight legal claims against him by the government.

Time's Up includes a legal defense fund, made up of $ 13 million in donations, to help less privileged women fight sexual misconduct.

Though many have tried to ride the success of its, um, coattails, Lululemon decided this was the right time to fight, and brought legal action against Calvin Klein in August.

The Canadian government is buoyed by other recent developments in Canada-U.S. trade: this week Boeing has dropped its legal fight against Bombardier and there are indications of a potential settlement in a dispute over glossy paper.

There remains a valid legal question to these licensure fights: Since Square simply processes payment information, and doesn't actually transmit money itself, why should it have to fall under the transmission regulations of all 50 states?

Using a website, a YouTube video and a few posters designed to be shared over social media, the board, which represents 34,000 Greater Toronto Area realtors, portrays itself as the guardian of consumer privacy and safety in an ongoing legal fight with the federal Competition Bureau.

The case is important not only because Hogan wants $ 100 million, which could ruin Gawker, but also because it highlights how Gawker is alone among new media companies in waging the sort of public interest legal fights that were once second nature for traditional media.

The main players in this drama are Redstone, whose health and mental faculties are currently the subject of an ongoing legal fight, his daughter Shari, two ex-girlfriends — Manuela Herzer and Sydney Holland — and Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman.

Opponents of legal weed in Oregon say they would take their fight to the Oregon legislature, pushing for stricter laws designed to limit access to pot by children, among other efforts.

The computer maker won a legal fight that stemmed from the buyout of Dell in 2013 by founder Michael Dell and his private equity partner.

He's somewhat of a renegade who keeps his legal papers in Fender guitar cases and is fighting suspension in Philadelphia federal court.

The National Federation of Independent Business, which led the legal fight against Obamacare, has a series of nuts - and - bolts «healthcare minute» videos and articles on what employers may need to do to comply.

MZI Resources has settled a legal fight with Stirling Resources over a suite of mineral sands tenements on the Tiwi Islands and in the Northern Territory.

But until founders figure out a way to disrupt within the existing legal framework, there will be some some ugly fights, and plenty of «haters,» along the way.

The case is the latest twist in a long - running legal fight over whether Google's email scanning practices amount to illegal wiretaps and a violation of California privacy laws.

Valeant Pharmaceuticals (vrx) said Monday that it agreed to sell Sprout back to its former shareholders, but the deal is actually more of a giveaway: All Valeant will receive in return for Sprout is 6 % of future sales of the female libido drug, starting around mid-2019, plus freedom from its remaining acquisition obligations and its legal fight with Sprout shareholders.

The difficult legal choices being weighed by the bank — should it settle or should it fight — coincide with an unusual wave of scrutiny for JPMorgan, which is now facing investigations from at least seven federal agencies, several state regulators and two foreign nations.

He said the Harper government would probably have been uninterested in pursuing the legal fight any longer in the face of pressure from the White House.

Mr. Thiel, who was last in the news for his financial support of Hulk Hogan's legal fight against Gawker Media, has a slate of political views that stand out of line with most in tech, and perhaps most Americans.

Over the course of his 25 - year legal career, he has tenaciously fought for the rights of consumers, concentrating his practice on consumer lending and consumer fraud class actions.

This final ruling from the jury effectively marks the conclusion of stage one in the legal fight between the former professional wrestler and Gawker.

The cannabis industry is fighting back by rallying a dozen lawmakers to send a letter to Sessions in support of legal marijuana.

For months, the Gawker Media owner and people around him had speculated that the pro wrestler had a wealthy backer footing the legal bill for his fight against Denton and Gawker, which had published an excerpt of a Hogan sex tape.

Other legal fights related to Uber include its battle with self - driving car company Waymo, which is suing Uber for allegedly stealing trade secrets, and a lawsuit filed by investor Benchmark against former chief executive officer Travis Kalanick claiming breach of contract.

Seven months after finally opening Conrad Fort Lauderdale Beach, its developers are embroiled in a nasty legal fight for control of the long - delayed, financially...

Qualcomm Inc. filed lawsuits in China seeking to ban the sale and manufacture of iPhones in the country, the chipmaker's biggest shot at Apple Inc. so far in a sprawling and bitter legal fight.

Trump... has increasingly complained in recent weeks that he needed to consider all options for fighting Mueller and not simply agree to an interview... other members of the legal team share Trump's view that they should take a more confrontational approach with the special counsel, including lawyer Jay Sekulow, who has urged the group to consider the pros and cons of fighting a subpoena, according to people familiar with his advice.

The request underscores the high stakes in an ongoing legal fight in federal court in New York, where Michael Cohen, Trump's lawyer, is also fighting to get a chance to review material seized as part of a criminal investigation of his business dealings.

Importantly, that relationship has since deteriorated — and Alphabet is embroiled in an unusual and messy legal fight with Uber — after a series of conversations about working together on self - driving cars fell apart.

The silver lining of Trump's abrupt announcement for opponents of the tariffs like Cohn is that it is still undergoing legal review, so there's still some time to fight over the details.

Consider the possible return of Kalanick as CEO, which most will finally admit is overblown unless he decides to go full throttle and end up in a legal fight with the company he founded.

Indeed, the legal tradition of Islam includes explicit rulings against Kharijites, classifying them as unbelievers who should be fought and killed.

He helped draft the «Defense of Marriage Act,» the 1996 law in which the federal government defines marriage as a legal union between one man and one woman, and is the author of «Fighting for America's Soul: How Sweeping Change Threatens Our Nation and What We Must Do.»

It's easy to pick on Christians, cause we don't «fight» back except in legal courts and a war of words.

We here in Yemen our Unity day celebration is on 22 May since 1990 to date but this time because of the troubles in the country related to changes we are threatened by the oppositions that they would make of it a bloody date marching towards the presidency to remove the president against the will of many who prefer having the president finish his legal ruling period rather than those coming to rule by coup rather than legal honest elections... Honestly what a mess we are in by those oppositions who what to take over what the youth have achieved and will be using those youth as their slaughter sheep for them to reach the ruling chair and then again when they both oppositions fight among them over it...

In February 2012, at the height of the battle over the HHS mandate, William Thierfelder, the president of Belmont Abbey College, was interviewed by the Washington Post about the school's legal fight against the mandate.

Who then will lead the fight for full legal rights and recognition of our moral minority in medicine or any other profession?

A police constable facing gross misconduct proceedings following the death of a musician is fighting a fresh legal battle to be allowed to resign rather than be...

There were 20,000 registered complaints against payday lenders in 2012 The Archbishop of Canterbury is leading a fight against legal loan sharks amid reports... More

Before we reach irreconcilable differences regarding what should be legal, our energies would be more productively spent on the common goal of reducing the number of unwanted pregnancies rather than fighting each other.

Of course, that doesn't mean we can't fight them with every legal means available.