Sentences with phrase «of settlement talks»

But in the middle of the settlement talks between Histed and Gange, Histed was informed by the law society that it had begun an inquiry into him based on a complaint submitted by one of his former clients — a mentally unstable woman fighting to prevent her child from being removed from her care.
Preserving a paper trail of communication is an important part of tracking the evolution of settlement talks, documenting client phone calls and return calls and creating a time line of events in any legal matter.
The permit is seen as a linchpin in the dispute after Naperville and the Park District in May pulled out of settlement talks with attorneys for Stone.
While the deal takes some pressure off Spotify, it has already been criticized as details of the settlement talks — ostensibly private and confidential — were leaked widely in recent weeks.
After two failed rounds of settlement talks in which Singer made a rare personal appearance, Arconic ultimately agreed to add three of Elliott's four picks to its board.

Not exact matches

Both Ripple and R3 declined to comment from this story, but sources familiar with the litigation, who agreed to speak on the condition of anonymity, said the sides have not explored settlement talks but are staking the outcome on the court's decision.
For instance, one point of contention in the current talks is NAFTA's chapter 19, titled «Review and Dispute Settlement in Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Matters.»
Then tell me why we're at $ 1.2300 on the strength of comments by a French dude who is going to be ancient history by the time they even start talking about the Brexit settlement!!!
The New York Times on Tuesday reported the existence of the mortgage settlement talks, including one discussion in which a roughly $ 20 billion fine was briefly floated.
Aside from negotiating the size of a financial fine, the people said, the talks are centered on which investigations and pending lawsuits to sweep into the potentially wide - ranging settlement.
A collection agency, whether through the US government or private lender, won't usually settle a defaulted student loan debt if it's less than the amount that the lender is likely to receive over the life of the original loan — so negotiation is essential during settlement talks.
States have just a few more days to decide whether to join the settlement, and an announcement of a pact could come as early as next week, people familiar with the talks said.
The new chief of the Bank for International Settlements does not look favorably on cryptocurrencies and in a recent talk, he encouraged regulators to intervene in digital asset markets.
Mr. Price said that Audiam would pursue its own settlement talks on behalf of its clients.
According to the documents and sources familiar with the settlement talks, Mallinckrodt was willing to acknowledge its responsibility to report suspiciously large orders placed by its customers, a network of wholesale distributors.
October 11, 2017 — As the debate over investor protections was heating up with the start of the fourth round of NAFTA talks in Washington, D.C., US, Mexican and Canadian civil society organizations delivered over 400,000 petitions to Capitol Hill demanding that NAFTA's expansive corporate rights and protections and Investor - State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) be eliminated during -LSB-...]
October 11, 2017 — As the debate over investor protections was heating up with the start of the fourth round of NAFTA talks in Washington, D.C., US, Mexican and Canadian civil society organizations delivered over 400,000 petitions to Capitol Hill demanding that NAFTA's expansive corporate rights and protections and Investor - State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) be eliminated during renegotiations.
In fact, just the possible cost of a legal defense can force a diocese into settlement talks.
The former Solicitor General of the United States under President George W. Bush — for whom he successfully argued Bush v. Gore — will be talking not gay marriage but class actions and the BP oil spill settlement.
Held Evans seems to be willing to talk in order to try to arrive at a mutual understanding, or at least a mutual settlement where both allow for the position of the other in order to preserve the union.
Running back Ray Rice and the Baltimore Ravens have agreed on an undisclosed settlement following his grievance against the team, according to Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk.
There has been daily talk of a pending settlement.
Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti's claim at the start of August that they were «in talks to find a solution» to the transfer angered Tottenham manager Andre Villas - Boas, but the clubs have now reached a settlement.
The Park District's attorney has indicated he has been involved in settlement discussions before U.S. District Judge Ruben Castillo, and that those talks have included a possible permanent suspension of shooting activities in the park.
The pace of settlement building has increased, rocket attacks on Israel have increased, frustration and insecurity has deepened on both sides, and the parties have not been able to agree a return to talks.
That this House notes that ISIL poses a direct threat to the United Kingdom; welcomes United Nations Security Council Resolution 2249 which determines that ISIL constitutes an «unprecedented threat to international peace and security» and calls on states to take «all necessary measures» to prevent terrorist acts by ISIL and to «eradicate the safe haven they have established over significant parts of Iraq and Syria»; further notes the clear legal basis to defend the UK and our allies in accordance with the UN Charter; notes that military action against ISIL is only one component of a broader strategy to bring peace and stability to Syria; welcomes the renewed impetus behind the Vienna talks on a ceasefire and political settlement; welcomes the Government's continuing commitment to providing humanitarian support to Syrian refugees; underlines the importance of planning for post-conflict stabilisation and reconstruction in Syria; welcomes the Government's continued determination to cut ISIL's sources of finance, fighters and weapons; notes the requests from France, the US and regional allies for UK military assistance; acknowledges the importance of seeking to avoid civilian casualties, using the UK's particular capabilities; notes the Government will not deploy UK troops in ground combat operations; welcomes the Government's commitment to provide quarterly progress reports to the House; and accordingly supports Her Majesty's Government in taking military action, specifically airstrikes, exclusively against ISIL in Syria; and offers its wholehearted support to Her Majesty's Armed Forces.
In this first talk, Al Jazeera's Mehdi Hassan interviewed the outgoing head of the Yesha Council, Dani Dayan on the subject of Israeli settlements and the prospect for peace between Israel and Palestine.
Given the illegality of the settlements, as well as the evident harm that they do to the prospects for peace, Mr Dayan's talk thus offered an interesting opportunity to take stock of the justifications for Israel's West Bank settlement program.
«Democratic elected officials across the country supported it,» he said of the fees paid to the law firms involved in the settlement talks.
There must be agreement on the issue in order to free up millions of dollars in federal education that is due to the state, so the governor has threatened to propose his own teacher evaluation system if the talks do not produce a settlement.
Following publication of the IMC report last Wednesday, Tony Blair said that while some issues, such as policing, still remained, «the door is now open to a final settlement, which is why the talks next week in Scotland are going to be so important».
«That this house notes that ISIL poses a direct threat to the United Kingdom; welcomes United Nations Security Council Resolution 2249 which determines that ISIL constitutes an «unprecedented threat to international peace and security» and calls on states to take «all necessary measures» to prevent terrorist acts by ISIL and to «eradicate the safe haven they have established over significant parts of Iraq and Syria»; further notes the clear legal basis to defend the UK and our allies in accordance with the UN Charter; notes that military action against ISIL is only one component of a broader strategy to bring peace and stability to Syria; welcomes the renewed impetus behind the Vienna talks on a ceasefire and political settlement; welcomes the Government's continuing commitment to providing humanitarian support to Syrian refugees; underlines the importance of planning for post-conflict stabilisation and reconstruction in Syria; welcomes the Government's continued determination to cut ISIL's sources of finance, fighters, and weapons; notes the requests from France, the US and regional allies for UK military assistance; acknowledges the importance of seeking to avoid civilian causalities; using the UK's particular capabilities; notes the Government's will not deploy UK troops in ground combat operations; welcomes the Government's commitment to provide quarterly progress reports to the House; and accordingly supports Her Majesty's Government in taking military action, specifically airstrikes, exclusively against ISIL in Syria; and offers its wholehearted support to Her Majesty's Armed Forces.»
Some argue that carefully targeted strikes against the regime's military assets — air defences, command and control centres, and bases of Assad's elite Republican Guards — could weaken the regime sufficiently to engage in meaningful talks aimed at a political settlement.
«What is needed instead is to urgently reconvene the Geneva peace talks and unrelenting international pressure for a negotiated settlement of the conflict.
After Ms Lumley pursued him around the studio, the pair held an impromptu press conference in which she pressured him into agreeing to further talks over the settlement rights of Gurkhas.
WAMC's David Guistina talks with Mike Spain of the Times Union about a federal investigation into payments made to Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver by a small law firm and Albany County legislature rejecting a proposed settlement in a federal civil rights lawsuit about the county under representing minorities in the redistricting plan.
«We welcome Governor Cuomo's involvement, and while we would prefer a negotiated settlement, it's good to know that should the talks fail again, people who actually understand education will be part of the decision - making process,» Mulgrew said.
I welcome Governor Cuomo's involvement, and while we would prefer a negotiated settlement, it's good to know that should the talks fail again, people who actually understand education will be part of the decision - making process.
She was a divorced mom of three with few employment prospects who talked her way into a job at a law firm, began an investigation on her own initiative and played a key role in a pollution suit that cost Pacific Gas & Electric a $ 333 million settlement.
Variety Amber Heard donates her entire divorce settlement from Johnny Depp to charity Pajiba... she also apparently passed on receiving residuals from his movies Monkey See funny talk about the new Ben - Hur and the long shadow of its 1959 Best Picture predecessor Kenneth in the (212) alerts us to a new webseries on Woody Allen movies.
When Truffaut calls The Birds an «apocalyptic tone poem,» he could easily be talking about this picture that paints a cold, tiny portrait of a settlement hewn together from wet logs and animal comforts wholly inadequate as insulation against the wild.
Would he have a moment to talk about the effect the proposed state shutdown settlement, which would balance the budget by holding back 40 percent of education funding?
A block away, a Ford Police Interceptor is parked so that it blocks traffic to a neighboring street where officers are talking to residents of a homeless settlement.
Asked if the higher pricing of e-books, in the wake of publishers» new agency agreements with Amazon, had also figured in the slowdown of e-book sales, Reidy noted that in the wake of publisher settlements over e-book price - fixing charges in the case with Apple, «I'm not supposed talk about pricing,» but added that «our data says that our pricing is effective.»
As of now, Apple has not participated in any settlement talks with the DOJ so it might be looking to fight this out in court.
We talked with the B&N legal team last week about the recent DOJ case involving the big six publishers and Apple, I talk about one of the motions in court they are filing to stop the settlement from the three companies that bowed out of the court case a few months ago.
The terms of the settlements have not been disclosed and the publishers certainly aren't talking, but some estimates claim that the alleged price fixing cost the reading consumers approximately $ 250 million, an amount that the lawsuits are hoping to come close to recovering.
If you read the responses to the DoJ's proposed settlement, you'll find a number of them talking about how there might have been collusion and, okay, that's not nice, but it was necessary.
These articles were worth reading; they came to my attention in the last week or so: «E-books settlement talks advancing — sources» by Diane Bartz, Reuters «The Missing 20th Century: How Copyright Protection Makes Books Vanish» by Rebecca J. Rosen, The Atlantic «The Rise of e-reading» at PewInternet — a long... Read more»
Several media outlets however caution that the «talks» are simply about eBook pricing in light of the recent DOJ settlement.
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