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Despite public criticism over the lawsuit, the school has apparently doubled down on the patent strategy, filing a wave of new lawsuits last week against more than 25 tech companies, including Microsoft (s msft), Dell, BlackBerry (s rim), Motorola (s goog) and Nokia (s nok).

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His fees are projected to double to $ 1 million, he said, in light of a sweeping new lawsuit filed last week by the Democratic National Committee.

In a statement, furnished to tech news site Geekwire, which broke the news of the lawsuit last week, Amazon said it works to resolve such cases in a way that protects the company and enables employees to take new jobs.

The New York Times has detailed claims of sexual harassment about several major figures in Hollywood and media since the former Fox News host Gretchen Carlson filed a lawsuit against Roger Ailes, the CEO of Fox News, last year.

A New York City advocacy group for low - income and minority residents filed a lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase Bank last fall for what it says are illegal and exploitative tactics that have cost the two named plaintiffs thousands of dollars in penalty fees it contends they shouldn't have had to pay.

King's announcement came a week after Bishop Eddie Long, senior pastor of New Birth Missionary Church, settled out of court with four young men who filed lawsuits against him last year claiming he coerced them into sexual relationships.

The FBI has turned over 7,000 new documents from Anthony Weiner's private laptop to the State Department as part of a watchdog group's lawsuit related to last year's Hillary Clinton email case.

The family of Akai Gurley, the unarmed man shot and killed in a Brooklyn housing - project stairwell by a police officer last year, has filed a wrongful - death lawsuit against New York City.

That could also make the lawsuit filed by Sugarman — who was appointed by Cuomo last year to head the Board of Elections» new independent enforcement unit — politically sensitive.

The longtime confidential secretary to former Milton town Supervisor Daniel Lewza filed a lawsuit accusing him of «horrific and damaging sexual harassment» that she said lasted years and left her emotionally scarred and struggling to find new employment.

That step had long been sought by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who filed a lawsuit against the company last month on behalf of its employees.

[From The WSJ] John Liu, a former New York City comptroller who ran unsuccessfully for mayor last year, accused the city Campaign Finance Board in a federal lawsuit of unlawfully denying his campaign millions of dollars in public matching funds.

The lawsuit was filed last month by two New York voters — William Gallo, of Manhasset, and Barry Korman, of Manhattan.

New York City shelled out $ 585.9 million for personal injury and property damage lawsuits last year, a 5 percent jump — and payouts for other types of lawsuits skyrocketed even more, by 38 percent, according to a new report from Comptroller Scott StringNew York City shelled out $ 585.9 million for personal injury and property damage lawsuits last year, a 5 percent jump — and payouts for other types of lawsuits skyrocketed even more, by 38 percent, according to a new report from Comptroller Scott Stringnew report from Comptroller Scott Stringer.

The New York State Rifle and Pistol Association filed a lawsuit last year calling for the repeal of the SAFE Act.

Parents have joined a class - action lawsuit filed last week against New York City for violating the rights of parents who have intellectual disabilities.

That step had long been sought by New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who filed a lawsuit against the company last month on behalf of its employees.

A Heastie spokesman did not rule out the introduction of a new bill to address the situation, but said the Assembly first wants to see the outcome of a lawsuit seeking to block the rules brought last week by the city and state teacher unions, who are powerful allies to the Assembly Dems.

Many thousands more papers remain sealed as part of ongoing lawsuits brought by more than 14,000 women against the drug maker Wyeth, which was bought last year by the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, based in New York.

Lawsuits forced the FWS to make more designations last year, bleeding time and money from the listing of new species.

Late last year, NhRP filed lawsuits in three New York lower courts on behalf of four captive chimpanzees in the state.

In the last two months, February and March 2018, multiple climate change accountability lawsuits moved forward: the New York Attorney General's argument against Exxon was bolstered by the Second Circuit Citizen's United decision, the Federal Government's writ of mandamus was rejected in favor of the...

Schools Chancellor Joseph A. Fernandez of New York City last week reached a compromise with a Bronx community school board in an out - of - court settlement of a lawsuit over the appointment of six area principals.

Gov. George E. Pataki promised an ambitious educational agenda last week in his final State of the State Address, but he didn't answer the $ 5.6 billion education question: Will the state put up the money to end the 13 - year - old lawsuit that led to a court ruling that the state is shortchanging New York City public schools?

Parents of children assigned to failing schools in the New York City and Albany, N.Y., systems claimed in a lawsuit last week that those districts had denied students the chance to transfer or receive supplemental services as required by the federal law.

A crowd of protesters gathered on the sidewalk outside a government building in Lower Manhattan last June, collectively demanding that the city and state reach an agreement on how to pump billions of new dollars into New York City schools - and settle its contentious, decade - long school adequacy lawsunew dollars into New York City schools - and settle its contentious, decade - long school adequacy lawsuNew York City schools - and settle its contentious, decade - long school adequacy lawsuit.

After months of tense meetings that included a lawsuit and a walkout, it seems as though Ritz and the other board members have called a truce: The last State Board meeting of the year ended amicably with an agreement on new operating procedures.

Last week, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal, which is located in Louisiana, ruled in favor of a class action lawsuit brought on behalf of about 7000 New Orleans public school employees who were wrongfully terminated when the State of Louisiana took control of 107 New Orleans public schools following Hurricane Katrina.

Last month, the Hartford Board of Education was presented with a secret «Sheff lawsuit plan» that called for opening up two new magnet schools in Hartford and handing Capital Prep and the S.A.N.D. elementary school over to a private company set up by Capital Prep Principal Steve Perry.

Following last week's filing of Martinez v. Malloy by a group of students and parents in Connecticut, the groundbreaking new federal education equality lawsuit has earned continued local and national media coverage.

The New York City Department of Education has apparently decided to keep three schools open after public school parents, guardians and community leaders filed a lawsuit last week.

Judge Cooper issued a summary judgment in the lawsuit that challenged new school funding and other rules passed during the 2017 session of the Florida Legislature and signed into law last June by Florida Governor Rick Scott.

Last week, a new lawsuit was filed on behalf of consumers in 33 states, and this one seeks the full amount allowable under the law, or triple the amount that consumers presumably lost due to the collusion to overcharge for ebooks.

Following the announcement last week that three authors have filed a class action lawsuit in California and New York against the vanity press for its business practices, Penguin announced that it was making some changes to the Author Solutions structure by replacing current CEO Kevin Weiss with Andrew Phillips, Penguin's head of Penguin International.

The lawsuit, posted online by the Huffington Post, was filed last Friday by the New York bookseller Book House of Stuyvesant Plaza, the South Carolina - based Fiction Addiction and New York City's Posman Books «on behalf of themselves and... all independent brick - and - mortar bookstores who sell ebooks».

There are several lawsuits pending against valve in other countries (Germany being one), due to people like me who have purchased 5 to 10 thousand dollars worth over the last 25 years and the new terms of service ToS can't be used retroactive as steam had hoped.

A federal lawsuit filed in Manhattan on Friday accuses Lufthansa Cargo and others of destroying a three - million - dollar painting by the American artist Brice Marden during a move last year from Moscow to New York, Reuters reported, according to the New York Times.

No net jobs were created in America last month (even as the people needing jobs increased), as the Obama Administration drafted a host of new job - killing regulations and threatened costly lawsuits against employers.

In the last two months, February and March 2018, multiple climate change accountability lawsuits moved forward: the New York Attorney General's argument against Exxon was bolstered by the Second Circuit Citizen's United decision, the Federal Government's writ of mandamus was rejected in favor of the children plaintiffs in the Juliana case, and in The People...

So last week, after the EPA published an updated version of the proposal, Clean Air Task Force legal director Ann Weeks said she doubted a new round of lawsuits would be in the offing.

Last week, when my new book, Into the Dustbin, was discussed by Judith Curry and Anthony Watts on their respective blogs, a person named Grant A. Brown left comments suggesting that I lost my job with the National Post as a result of a defamation lawsuit.

The Eric Wemple Blog had already discussed a potential lawsuit against the New York Post over the cover in an interesting analysis last week, strongly supporting the idea of the men in the photo seeking «millions or even billions of dollars in damages from the paper.»

However, all of this changed last year when the Ontario Court of Appeal released its decision in Joseph v. Paramount Canada's Wonderland, 1 a case in which, under Ontario's new Limitations Act, the plaintiff's attorney failed to issue the statement of claim within the limitation period.2 The Court of Appeal unanimously eliminated any discretion that the court had to extend limitation periods based on «special circumstances» and held, subject to only a few exceptions, that the expiry of the two - year limitation period in Ontario is a complete bar to a lawsuit.

Reuters reports that a putative class action lawsuit was filed last week in the U.S. District court for the Northern District of California against Apple and AT&T over antenna problems with the newest iPhone model.

«Illinois lawyer tied to indicted law firm; A Tribune investigation raises questions about fees paid to a Springfield attorney by a high - powered law firm; That firm was indicted last month in California on charges it lured clients with illegal kickbacks»: The Chicago Tribune today contains a lengthy article that begins, «For the last three decades, whenever a major corporation has been accused of cheating its stockholders, the powerhouse New York law firm of Milberg Weiss hasn't been far behind with a class - action lawsuit.»

Late last month, the seemingly incapable - of - escaping - trouble electric car startup Faraday Future filed a lawsuit against a new rival helmed by its former chief financial officer, Stefan Krause.

RPX Corporation, a firm providing patent - litigation risk management, reports: «Current data shows that patent trolls are thriving — having added nearly twice as many new defendants to infringement lawsuit campaigns in the first half of 2015 than during the second half of last year — despite court decisions and reforms thought to be deterrents.

A new case was filed in the Circuit Court of Cook County last week and outlines allegations similar to those laid out in six other lawsuits filed against Facebook in a federal court.

Microsoft filed a lawsuit against Samsung in a New York federal court in August of last year, as Samsung allegedly breached the collaboration agreement signed between the two companies by refusing to pay royalties after Microsoft acquired the handset business of Nokia back in September 2013.