Sentences with phrase «on behalf of plaintiffs who»

Brockovich's work on behalf of plaintiffs who brought suit against Pacific Gas & Electric in the 1990s was dramatized in a 2000 film starring Julia Roberts.

Not exact matches

All of that comes on top of more than 500 class actions filed on behalf of owners and lessors of Volkswagen diesel cars — an unprecedented number, according to Elizabeth Cabraser, a leading mass - disaster plaintiffs attorney who is heading a 22 - lawyer steering committee trying to bring order to the sprawling mess.

The plaintiffs who originally filed the lawsuit on behalf of the class — Ingrid Avendano, Ana Medina and Roxana Del Toro Lopez — worked in the same engineering department as Fowler.

Investor advocate, Mark Elliott — who recently won a class action on behalf of investors in Downer EDI — lodged the claim on behalf of investor John Webster, who will act as «lead plaintiff» in the case on behalf of other investors who join the action.

(The suit was brought on behalf of a slew of plaintiffs, including its namesake Ralph Nunez, who all alleged they'd been brutally beaten while incarcerated at Rikers Island.)

The class action was filed earlier this month in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, in Washington, on behalf of some 100,000 individuals who attended such schools from 1890 until the present day, said Jeffrey M. Herman, the lead lawyer for the plaintiffs.

Nepinak is the lead plaintiff in a $ 1 billion class - action lawsuit on behalf of all Canadians who purchased bread from the named grocers since January 2001.

In April 2012, three representative plaintiffs brought the class action lawsuit to the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in Toronto on behalf of all drivers who incurred tolls and / or additional charges to the 407 ETR, and had their license plate denied after they had filed a consumer proposal or a bankruptcy proceeding.

Plaintiff brings this action on behalf of himself and a Class consisting of all persons in the United States who established an account with NoteWorld LLC (or any subsidiary thereof) from which NoteWorld processed any payments related to any debt settlement program.

Aside from Newtz, the plaintiffs who brought the complaint include Angelika Kasey and Christina Tobin of Louisville, and Julia Sharp on behalf of TLC Rescue, a nonprofit corporation that rescues animals in Rowan, Bath, Fleming and Carter counties.

Regarding one set of litigators who are making the accusation argument on behalf of the plaintiffs in the Colorado lawsuits, I already covered the EarthRights group's connections to the «Skeptic - Trashing Enviro - Activist clique» in my April 26, 2018 blog post's second half.

She'd read Hansen's book, «Storms of my Grandchildren,» (Hansen's granddaughter, Sophie, is one of the plaintiffs) and she'd learned of an attorney in the Philippines who'd brought environmental lawsuits on behalf of kids.

The three unnamed plaintiffs, who are suing the firm on behalf of a putative class of female attorneys at the firm, claim in their complaint that «At MoFo, the mommy track is a dead end.»

In fact, the PHIPA Commissioner (who intervened on behalf of the Plaintiffs), argued that the role of the Commissioner is to focus on systemic issues, rather than individual complaints.7

Plaintiff in that case is seeking $ 50,000 in damages on behalf of the estate of one of those residents, who is now deceased.

Dan's business litigation included defending a truck manufacturer in suits by disgruntled dealers, the defense of numerous officers and directors of failed savings and loans, a recovery for limited partners in a franchise who were misled by a franchisor, defense of libel actions, trade secret litigation on behalf of both plaintiffs and defendants, lease covenant disputes for commercial tenants of shopping centers, and business partnership disputes.

A class action is a legal proceeding commenced by a representative plaintiff on behalf of themselves and a group or class of people who fall under the same definition of a proposed class.

OUR Law Firm has experienced litigators, who appear for clients before all levels of the Pakistani courts in order to fight on behalf of them, for both the plaintiff and the defendant, before all stages of arbitration panels and the various forms of the ADR as well as representing them in all attempts to attain an amicable settlement with their opponents.

On behalf of an Indian Tribe client, Mr. McConnell successfully moved for summary judgment as a plaintiff against a contractor who was improperly licensed for over $ 900,000 in one action, and over $ 2,000,000 in another.

Medical, accident reconstruction and other experts are often vigorously cross-examined regarding their fees, relationship with the attorney who is paying them or the percentage of cases for whom they testify as either on the plaintiffs» or the defendants» behalf.

The New York Court of Appeals, which is the highest state appellate court in New York, recently released a decision affirming two lower court decisions to exclude a plaintiff's proposed expert witnesses in a personal injury case filed on behalf of a child who was born with serious birth defects and disabilities alleged to have resulted from his mother inhaling gasoline fumes while she was pregnant with him.

When a client is incapable of instructing counsel ab initio or when the client is a minor, it is most often a family member who retains the lawyer on behalf of the injured plaintiff, and is later named in the action as litigation guardian on behalf of that plaintiff.

The Plaintiff advanced an ICBC claim, seeking damages for many types of claims, including pain and suffering, future care, past and future loss of housekeeping capacity, as well an in - trust claim on behalf of her son, who took over the role from his mother for caring for his father, as well as doing housekeeping chores that the Plaintiff had performed before the accident.

The Plaintiff in this case sought to collect permanent partial disability benefits under the Maryland Workers» Compensation Act on behalf of his wife, who died of causes unrelated to her work injury.

In this week's case (Logan v. Hong) the Plaintiff was advancing a class action for damages on behalf of «all persons who were injected with Dermalive in Canada and who thereafter developed granulomas in the area injected with Dermalive.»

[1] In the course of this jury trial I ruled that Dr. Frank Lipson, who had conducted a defence medical of the plaintiff, not be permitted to testify as an expert witness on behalf of the defence.

A representative plaintiff is the person who prosecutes the case on behalf of the class, and provides instruction to the lawyers for the class.

The plaintiff, Johnnie Watkins, filed the action on behalf of her adult daughter, Johnnice Ford, who is a disabled person.

A class action is a form of civil action where one or a few plaintiffs can sue a defendant or a number of defendants on behalf of a larger group of people who claim the same type of loss from the same defendant of group of defendants.

On behalf of Brown & Crouppen, P.C. posted in Workers» Compensation on Wednesday, April 25, 2012 The federal judge presiding over a lawsuit filed against the State of Missouri by four workers who say they are owed benefits from the state's Second Injury Fund recently dismissed the suit despite acknowledging the plaintiffs are entitled to -LSB-..On behalf of Brown & Crouppen, P.C. posted in Workers» Compensation on Wednesday, April 25, 2012 The federal judge presiding over a lawsuit filed against the State of Missouri by four workers who say they are owed benefits from the state's Second Injury Fund recently dismissed the suit despite acknowledging the plaintiffs are entitled to -LSB-..on Wednesday, April 25, 2012 The federal judge presiding over a lawsuit filed against the State of Missouri by four workers who say they are owed benefits from the state's Second Injury Fund recently dismissed the suit despite acknowledging the plaintiffs are entitled to -LSB-...]

Plaintiffs claim that the PACER fee schedule violated the E-Government Act of 2002, 28 U.S.C. § 1913) and seek reimbursement of the excess fee pursuant to the Little Tucker Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1346, on behalf of all individuals and entities, excluding class counsel and federal governmental agencies, who paid PACER fees from April 2010 through April 2016.

Drs. Grover and Pisesky are orthopedic surgeons who did independent medical examinations of Ms. Beaton on behalf of the plaintiff and the defendants respectively.

What the judge never referenced in her decision was actuarial evidence submitted on behalf of the plaintiff that foreign nationals who smoke or engage in risky behaviour, such as fast driving, cost even more to our health and social service system, yet they are never labelled an excessive demand.

The plaintiff's action is brought on its own behalf, and on behalf of a Class defined as all land surveyors (individuals, corporations or partnerships) in Ontario who, on or before March 26, 2014, were the:

In a filing in Chicago federal court this week, former salesperson Ranita Dailey confirmed she will be lead plaintiff on behalf of Groupon employees who seek to recoup overtime that the company allegedly failed to pay.

The law firm of Girard Gibbs who filed this lawsuit on behalf of the plaintiffs is rumored to now be preparing a second class action against Google relating to Pixel phone display burn - in issues with the latest Pixel 2.

Plaintiffs Timothy G. Faasse and Jeffrey Hansen are US residents and filed the complaint on behalf of themselves and others who are estimated to be in thousands, all of whom are being represented by Restis Law in San Diego.