Sentences with phrase «of multiple defendants»

In June, the Home Affairs Committee called for specific guidance and training for judges in child sexual exploitation cases, and highlighted the risk of multiple defendants cross-examining vulnerable witnesses.

In a reverse class - action law suit, there is a single plaintiff who essentially is arguing that it has been harmed by the actions of multiple defendants.

For example, while no one particular defendant's negligence alone may be sufficient to have caused the plaintiff's injuries, the collective negligence of multiple defendants may have caused the plaintiff's injuries.

Thus, where a plaintiff suffers a single injury as a result of the tortious acts of multiple defendants, the burden of proof is upon the plaintiff to demonstrate that the conduct of each defendant was a substantial factor in the harm.

Not exact matches

== > Related: Despite multiple requests by AIG, AIG has been unable to gain access to the loan files for nearly all of the RMBS underwritten by Defendants.

Some of the money was funneled from the electric company to Howe, who a year ago pleaded guilty to multiple felonies, and helped federal prosecutors build their cases against the defendants.

Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's office also said the hefty suggestion stemmed from «the many egregious aspects of the defendant's crimes — including Silver's role as a high - level public official, his engagement in multiple corrupt schemes, the millions of dollars in bribe money Silver took in, and his laundering of his crime proceeds.»

In addition to the CEO dinner meetings, Publisher Defendants» CEOs and other executives met in - person, one - on - one to communicate about e-books multiple times over the course of 2009 and into 2010.

«According to the complaint, defendants» Class Period statements were materially false and misleading because they failed to disclose and misrepresented the following adverse facts which were known to or recklessly disregarded by defendants: (a) Battlefield 4 was riddled with bugs and multiple other problems, including downloadable content that allowed players access to more levels of the game, a myriad of connectivity issues, server limitations, lost data and repeated sudden crashes, among other things; (b) as a result, Electronic Arts would not achieve a successful holiday season 2013 rollout of Battlefield 4; (c) the performance of the Electronic Arts unit publishing Battlefield 4 was so deficient that all other projects that unit was involved in had to be put on hold to permit it to focus its efforts on fixing Battlefield 4;»

At another firm, which has acted for multiple defendants in SFO investigations and prosecutions, a prominent partner says: «The advent of DPAs has allowed the state to do something it has been lamentably bad at doing: to use the criminal justice system as, potentially, an effective tool in the regulation of business.

As laid out in the appellate opinion, plaintiff ‟ s counsel and defendants ‟ counsel agreed to multiple extensions of plaintiff ‟ s time to file a motion for attorney fees on appeal, while they were trying to settle the amount owed.

Having multiple defendants can affect the outcome of the case because the jury or the judge must decide who owes the money.

When there are multiple defendants, each defendant has an opportunity to present their side of the case; what they are entitled to; and why they are defending themselves.

The group, which also includes professionals in the firm's Washington, Chicago and Phoenix offices, has handled litigation in more than 30 states in cases ranging from putative nationwide class actions and mass actions for personal injury and property damage to complex environmental investigation and / or remediation issues and matters involving multiple defendants and hundreds of products.

When there are multiple defendants in a case, the rules of civil procedure require a process that is governed by rules of evidence and the rules of civil procedure.

Lastly, and of some interest to future class action defendants, Strathy C.J.O. endorsed an arrangement whereby the competing plaintiff consortiums had provided an undertaking to the defendant, embodied in a court order, to prevent the continuation or commencement of multiple parallel actions following the resolution of the carriage dispute.

The plaintiff had a common law relationship with the former husband of the defendant, and the defendant acknowledged looking at the plaintiff's bank information without just cause or reason on multiple occasions.

The mystery surrounding the death of Professor Larry Henderson's wife has twists and turns built into every episode, including infidelity, multiple potential suspects, and a defendant whose actions and statements certainly make it appear as though he's guilty.

However, if in the same car accident the plaintiff suffered burns, which resulted in multiple surgeries and months of prolonged physical therapy, the general damages would be awarded to compensate the victim for the pain and suffering that arose from the defendant's negligent or reckless action.

A versatile lawyer with extensive experience in complex commercial litigation, domestic and international arbitration, insurance coverage and price redetermination proceedings, James Rogers has tried multiple trials and arbitrations in Texas, Florida, Missouri, and California, on behalf of both plaintiffs and defendants.

The most serious issues arise in one of the situations that Justice Sotomayor addresses which the majority does not adequately consider in the rebuttal in its own opinion, which is the situation where there are multiple possible defendants with different home states, whose relative liability is unknown or independent or mutually dependent.

Given the broad interpretation of patent venue prior to TC Heartland, it was relatively easy to name multiple defendants in a single case.

Joint and several liability is a doctrine that permits a plaintiff who is able to show that multiple defendants caused her injury to recover the full amount from any one of them.

-- Can Art. 6 (1) on jurisdiction over multiple defendants be applied in a situation where two or more companies from different Member States are each separately accused of infringing the same national part of a European patent which is in force in yet another Member State?

In Clements v. Clements,, 2012 SCC 32, the Supreme Court of Canada re-affirmed the primacy of the «but for» test in proving causation and confined the alternate «material contribution» test to cases involving multiple negligent defendants where it is not possible to prove which one caused the injury.

The settlement brings to a close the consolidated class action lawsuit brought in 2010 by multiple retirement funds against Countrywide and other defendants for securities violations involving the packaging and sale of MBS.

In this latest chapter of a long - running litigation involving the direct infringement of patent claims involving multiple actors, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit recently concluded that a defendant can be liable for direct infringement when it «conditions participation in an activity or receipt of a benefit...

The Alexandria U.S. District Court affirms the magistrate judge's decision and upholds defendant's DUI conviction because there was sufficient evidence to support a finding of guilt, including an officer's observation of defendant's multiple lane violations, defendant's smell of alcohol and...

Finally, an injured party who is seeking recovery from multiple defendants can request the capped amount from each at - fault party, unless the incident resulted in the death of the plaintiff.

Because accidents involving drunk drivers can be complicated and complex, a lawyer who has significant experience dealing with claims that involve a number of defendants or multiple insurance companies will increase your chances of a successful outcome in your case.

Mass torts happen when there are multiple plaintiffs who sustained an injury from the single tort of one of more defendants.

«Claimants may now be able to bring actions in the UK against UK resident defendants for infringement of their rights in multiple jurisdictions.»

The plaintiff brought suit against multiple defendants, including the driver of the garbage truck and his employer, Republic Services of Georgia, L.P. With respect to these parties, the plaintiff argued that the garbage truck, which was traveling approximately 200 feet behind the Tahoe, was too close to the other vehicle, and had the garbage truck driver maintained a suitable distance, he would have observed her husband's body and avoiding hitting him.

Further to my previous posts about Independent Medical Exams in BC Supreme Court Injury Claims unpublished reasons for judgement recently came to my attention (Hou v. Kirmani BCSC Vancouver Registry, 20091119) dealing with the ability for a Defendant to have an injured party undergo multiple exams where the first defence expert feels an opinion from a second expert would be of benefit.

Nor are we aware of informal negotiation and co-operation to afford corporate defendants relief in the face of enforcement actions in multiple jurisdictions.

On March 30, 2018, Judge Rya Zobel of the United States District Court (District of Massachusetts) issued a memorandum of decision on two Defendants» (NSTAR Electric, formerly Boston Edison, and General Electric) Motions for Summary Judgment in an asbestos personal injury and wrongful death matter, June Stearns and Clifford Stearns as Co-Executors of the Estate of Wayne Oliver v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., et al., that addresses multiple issues, including statute of repose, strict liability and liability of a premises owner.

The case involved 5 plaintiffs and multiple defendants alleging carbon monoxide poisoning due to negligent design, installation, and maintenance of the hvac system.

Seven of these appeals arose out of multiple actions commenced by Mr. Van Sluytman against various defendants regarding alleged interactions with government agencies, law enforcement officials and health care professionals in various parts of Ontario.

$ 1.3 Million Settlement — Motor vehicle accident results in multiple fractures The Defendant went left - of - center and struck Plaintiff.

A recent appellate opinion discusses how one plaintiff's execution of an overly broad settlement agreement actually dismissed multiple defendants from the case, despite her lack of intention to do so.

«Although the forms themselves have already been produced and discussed in multiple depositions a defendant does not have discretion to decide to withhold relevant, responsive documents absent some showing that producing the document is not proportional to the needs of the case.

As the article reveals, the severity of the sentence here appears to be the product of, inter alia, the legislature increasing punishments under Jessica's law, prosecutors bringing multiple charges, the defendant contesting those charges at trial, and the operation of state sentencing guidelines.

But a case worth several million would require extremely compelling facts, multiple survivors under Florida's wrongful death statute, good evidence of strong relationships between the deceased and survivors, good evidence of the defendant's guilt, and plenty of insurance coverage.

[58] Where a case involves multiple defendants, the bases of plea must be factually consistent.

If there are multiple defendants responsible for an accident, they may each be held liable for the full sum of the plaintiff's damages under a theory of «joint and several liability.»

Due to the complexity and cost of getting evidence to prove wrongdoing by defendants, and the need to explain all of this to a court, it can be more cost - effective to have issues common to class members decided in one lawsuit instead of requiring multiple individuals to bring separate lawsuits.

Class actions are a specific type of litigation that allows for combining multiple, similar court actions into a single action brought against a common defendant or set of defendants.

A $ 700,000 settlement for a client who claimed that the defendant neurosurgeon's negligence caused or substantially contributed to a three - year delay in the diagnosis of the plaintiff's multiple sclerosis, during which time the plaintiff's MS progressed untreated.

Any other material aspects, e.g., whether there were multiple plaintiffs or defendants, counterclaims, jury or bench trial, removal from state to federal court, use and value of alternative dispute resolution techniques, and so on,

R (Sanneh) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2015] 3 WLR 1867 Represents defendants to multiple challenges to regulations which remove benefits entitlement from claimants with a right of residence under the CJEU ruling in Zambrano.