Sentences with phrase «other than lawsuits»

Not exact matches

In fact, while the billionaire doesn't mention it in his op - ed piece, he has also reportedly been involved in financing several other lawsuits against Gawker that haven't gone to trial, some of which have even less legal merit than the Gawker case.

«It doesn't really change the landscape significantly other than insulate companies from lawsuits,» said Yaron Nili, a law professor at the University of Wisconsin who focuses on corporate governance.

Some of the more paranoid or lawsuit - fearing companies in the U.S. require office couples to sign a wavier or «love contract,» vowing that their relationship is consensual and neither will take legal action against their employer (or each other) should the love prove less than eternal.

There are other issues to settle, including the explosive lawsuit filed by Benchmark Capital — which owns more than 10 percent of the company and has a board seat held by Matt Cohler — against Kalanick, whom the venture firm helped oust and has been trying to restrain.

Other times, an actual lawsuit ensues, as when Trump retained attorney Marc Kasowitz to sue journalist Tim O'Brien for $ 5 million, claiming O'Brien libeled the notoriously image - conscious developer by asserting Trump was worth much less than he claimed.

Late - night comics were given even more fodder when, in January 2011, a class - action lawsuit was filed that alleged the majority of what Taco Bell called «seasoned beef» was ingredients other than meat.

Update (April 18): The Salt Lake Tribune reports that Snow College has settled its lawsuit with Solid Rock Christian Club, which sued the school last winter claiming «that the school's policy unconstitutionally treated student groups affiliated with religious institutions differently than other student groups.»

Small claims court cases are much cheaper than superior court cases for both the plaintiff (the person doing the suing) and the defendant (the person being sued) because the parties are not allowed to have any attorneys represent them and other rules that simplify the lawsuit process, making the whole thing much cheaper, faster, and easier.

The MTA discriminates against people with disabilities because of its widespread lack of elevators and electric lifts in the subway system, rendering it significantly more inaccessible than other cities with large public transportation systems, according to two lawsuits filed yesterday.

A coalition of the NAACP and other groups is filing a class - action lawsuit arguing that the New York City property tax system is biased to make poorer, homeowners of color pay more than wealthier, whiter homeowners.

«The Board of Education's lawsuit is pretending to be about something other than what it is,» he said.

[Cuomo said the latest lawsuit challenging the way New York allocates education dollars is flawed because the state spends more money per pupil — on average — than any other state and doesn't get top results.]

The lawsuit was filed in 2012 and pointed out that the U.S. Supreme Court and the Eleventh Circuit have both ruled that ballot access for President has more protection than ballot access for other office (Georgia is in the 11th circuit).

He added that Schneiderman has filed more than 100 lawsuits at taxpayer expense against the Trump administration and the federal government while being «totally invisible» when it comes to taking on the Buffalo Billion scandal and other Albany corruption.

The entity spends more than $ 2 million a year on staff and other operating expenses despite only three lawsuits pending as of Sept. 30.

An account of the lawsuit in the July 8 Portland Press Herald quotes Jennifer Garrett, director of technical services for Monsanto's dairy business, as saying: «We believe Oakhurst labels deceive consumers; they're marketing a perception that one milk product is safer or of higher quality than other milk.»

This review is somewhat similar to the patent - opposition procedures available in other countries, such as the EPO, and possibly allows for a less costly way of challenging patents than through an inter partes patent reexamination or a lawsuit.

In more than two - thirds of the states, teacher unions, school districts, and other interested parties have filed similar lawsuits that seek judgments resembling the stunning result handed down in New York.

By banning two novels and adopting a policy that prohibits the use of more than 60 other books, the Bay County (Fla.) School Board has violated the First Amendment rights of students, teachers, and parents, a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court charges.

On its homepage the company lists four patents that it purchased in the first two months of this year alone, along with no less than five patent violation lawsuits that were settled between Acacia and other companies.

One of the major holdouts in the settlement offers was Penguin Group, which also happens to be the publisher named more often than any of the other publishers involved in the investigation and resulting lawsuit.

National Collegiate has filed more than 3,000 lawsuits in New York, nearly 1,900 in Missouri, more than 400 in Connecticut and hundreds more in other states, the vast majority of them since 2013.

The lawsuit alleges Principal used proprietary investment vehicles, rather than other investment vehicles, and share classes with higher fees for the underlying TDF investments, to produce more income for itself and its subsidiaries.

We know of no cases or lawsuits regarding the spay / neuter of a cat done by somebody other than the owner.

According to the lawsuit, the Commercial Breeder Law states that the board must refuse to issue an initial license when a commercial breeder «has been convicted, other than a petty misdemeanor conviction, of cruelty to animals under Minnesota law.»

Actually, argument is putting it lightly; there was a big argument, lots of threats and finally a lawsuit before the two bosses of Infinity Ward, Jason West and Vince Zampella, walked out, taking quite a few Infinity Ward guys with them and forming a brand new company called Respawn who are working with none other than EA.

But others were skeptical, citing the funding of the study by chemical - giant Bayer — who are facing numerous lawsuits implicating their insecticides as a leading cause of CCD — as being a primary reason for taking these results with more than just a pinch of salt.

But rather than ask for an equitable distribution of the pain that goes with substantial across - the - board reductions in carbon emissions, what the Obama Administration did instead was to bundle GHG reductions with reductions in other kinds of pollutants such as mercury and sulfur into a single plan targeted mostly at the coal industry — thus guaranteeing that their plan would be highly vulnerable to lawsuits of the kind that Lawrence Tribe is now leading.

Jim Texas take 5 years less than California to build a major dam (if it isn't killed by a green lawsuit) and in Democratic controlled San Antonio they are building a pipeline with private financing that will bring water from other nearby counties and they will pay those counties for their water (not take it).

Excellent new post at ClimateAudit by the indefatigable Jean S, on the «Black Tuesday of Climate Science» — it is harder than ever to believe that Michael Mann can win his defamation lawsuit against Steyn and others.

Entertaining how the NRDC played a role of some sort with one of the global warming nuisance lawsuits, the Connecticut v American Electric Power, while another of those global warming nuisance lawsuits, Comer v. Murphy Oil had wording within its documents stating «The API [American Petroleum Institute] and other Oil Company Defendants have engaged in concerted financial activity — far in excess of $ 1 million — in furtherance of a tortious civil conspiracy to «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact» — details I described in my previous blog post.

The surprise to me with this lawsuit is that it doesn't feature sensational evidence like others did — the older Kivalina v Exxon case and the newer San Mateo / Marin / Imperial Beach v. Chevron cases — by citing the infamous «leaked memo set» headlined with «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact,» which are universally accepted among enviro - activists as smoking gun evidence of skeptic climate scientists being paid to push misinformation to the public at the behest of sinister corporate handlers.

OnPointNews reports that artist Victor Whitmill, who owns the intellectual property rights to the design, has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Warner Bros. alleging that the tattoo can not be reproduced on anyone's body other than Mike Tyson without his permission.

As discussed here previously, Whitmill filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Warner Bros. alleging that he owns the rights to the well - known «Mike Tyson tattoo» and that it can not be reproduced on anyone's body other than Mike Tyson without his permission.

This also means that there is a scope for much higher damages and compensation in a truck accident case than in any other kind of auto accident lawsuit.

If you lost a body part in a workplace accident caused by a negligent third party (someone other than your employer or co-workers), you could have grounds for a personal injury lawsuit.

These types of claims are different than other types of personal injury lawsuits because the person (s) bringing the lawsuit is not the actual victim, but the family members or the victim's estate.

In some cities and counties, verdicts for personal injury lawsuits are much higher than in others.

With most of those situations, I either learn about something other than what the person was calling about, or I am able to help them with issue 1 (debt collection lawsuit) and they eventually end up with a situation involving a debt collector (potential debt collection harassment).

In my experience lawsuits are not consistently a good economic investment at less than $ 75,000 U.S., but in limited jurisdiction courts the process is much cheaper, the vast majority of lawsuits are resolved with defaults, and in any almost any written contract it is possible to insure that the prevailing party will be awarded attorneys» fees and court costs in addition to the damages awarded (this is the default rule in England and many other countries, but not in the U.S.A.).

TD Bank told investors that funds from the settlements they had purchased were being deposited into a separate TD Bank account and could not be distributed to anyone other than the investors, according to the lawsuit.

If a person or company other than your employer caused the accident that injured you at your worksite, you might be able to bring a personal injury lawsuit against that third party.

For one, the statute of limitations on lawsuits involving the MTA is significantly shorter than that for other personal injury claims.

Civil lawsuit trials can be conducted in a state other than the state where the breach of contract or tort giving rise to the lawsuit took place for jurisdictional purposes and not infrequently is brought in another state, although constitutional choice of law rules limit the circumstances under which a particular state's laws can be applied to a particular set of circumstances in a lawsuit.)

The lawsuit claims Blott and others received more than $ 14.5 million in compensation through representation of the claimants.

I wonder if the Google lawsuit wasn't at its core about something other than copyright and the money to be made that way... I'm not sure what, but it seems surprising that newspapers would imagine they could make appreciably more money by keeping their stuff off Google News.

Second, Hunt Leibert and Reiner, Reiner process foreclosure lawsuits more quickly than their competitors, requiring an average of three to four months to close a case in comparison to the median seven - and - a-half months at other firms.

A workplace wrongful death may be grounds for a third - party lawsuit, which is a claim against someone other than the employer.

Some motor vehicle defects are more common than others and have been the cause of major lawsuits.

Accordingly, if your injuries were caused, in whole or in part, by someone other than your employer or a co-worker, you are not limited by the provisions of the workers» compensation laws, and can file a personal injury lawsuit to seek damages for any losses.