Sentences with phrase «people file a lawsuit against»

Eight people filed a lawsuit against Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Thursday, arguing he is violating their constitutional rights by not setting a special election date.

If that person files a lawsuit against you, your renters liability insurance will also help to cover the costs of your legal defense.

I have recommended that people file a lawsuit against the defendant driver in several situations.

If another person files a lawsuit against you, your umbrella coverage will pay for the damages you're legally responsible for up to the policy limit you set.

Not exact matches

The lawsuit filed by Ingrid Avendano, Roxana del Toro Lopez and Ana Medina, who described themselves as Latina software engineers, says that Uber's compensation and other practices discriminate against women and people of color.

A passenger who survived the deadly Southwest 1380 flight filed a lawsuit against the airline carrier after an engine exploded earlier this month, killing one person on board and leading dozens of others to prepare for an untimely death.

A number of lawsuits have been filed against the company for allegedly mishandling people's data.

(CNN)-- Changes to a decades - old federal program that provides birth control and other reproductive health care services to millions of low - income people each year prompted lawsuits that were filed against the Trump administration Wednesday.

Disability Rights Advocates, on behalf of the Independent Living Resource Center and two people who use wheelchairs, filed a class - action lawsuit today against Lyft.

In March, Disability Rights Advocates, on behalf of the Independent Living Resource Center and two people who use wheelchairs, filed a class - action lawsuit today against Lyft.

TOKYO (AP)-- About 1,400 people filed a joint lawsuit Thursday against three companies that manufactured reactors at Japan's Fukushima Dai - ichi nuclear plant, saying they should be financially liable for damage caused by their 2011 meltdowns.

I wonder if Harold Camping will be ready for the possible deluge of lawsuits that might be (maybe should be) filed against him by people that truly believed him and divested themselves of all their worldy possesions or did other inane actions.

By filing a lawsuit to set aside the Mexico City policy on the basis of «international law» created outside the American political system, the CRLP has demonstrated that it firmly believes that «international law» (which has little if anything to do with the will of the American people or the representatives they elect to govern them) is nevertheless enforceable against the American people and, ultimately, the people of the world.

Armstrong filed lawsuits against people that said he doped, and vehemently denied it for years.

It was around 11 p.m. when a firework landed near where Kristina Perez was standing in West Lawn Park «and exploded with such force that it traumatically amputated her right foot and lower leg,» according to a lawsuit filed by Perez against the city, the Park District and two people who Perez alleges set off the firework.

Eight people have filed a lawsuit against Cuomo, arguing his failure to set a special election date to fill the congressional vacancy left by former Rep. Michael Grimm violates the constitutional rights of residents of Staten Island and of southern Brooklyn.

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.

Disability Rights New York has filed a class action lawsuit against the Dollar General Corporation for failing to make their New York stores accessible to people with mobility disabilities.

Black Lives Matter - Buffalo and a coalition of Buffalo residents have filed a federal lawsuit against the Buffalo Police Department, accusing the agency of engaging in a «repeated, persistent and widespread pattern of unconstitutional policing» that targets people of color.

Some people were terminated because of their politics, or had filed lawsuits against the courts.

While federal law still makes the possession, production and sale of marijuana a crime, Holder's announcement means the Justice Department won't file lawsuits against state laws in Colorado and Washington that allow people to possess marijuana for personal use.

Several counties in New York, including Suffolk, Broome and Erie, have filed lawsuits against the pharmaceutical companies responsible for making it so easy for people to get hooked on these highly addictive pain pills.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Eight people have filed a lawsuit against Gov. Andrew Cuomo, arguing his failure to set a special election date to fill the congressional vacancy violates the constitutional rights of residents of Staten Island and of southern Brooklyn.

«The courts would be overwhelmed with cases in which people say I have been exposed to a harmful chemical and, therefore, I have cellular changes and I'm entitled to medical monitoring,» said Birnbaum, a New York City attorney often referred to as the «Queen of Torts» for her work in mass - tort litigation involving lawsuits filed against corporations.

ALBANY, NY (11/27/2013)(readMedia)-- PEF filed a lawsuit November 26th in state Supreme Court, Albany County, challenging a regulation of state Health Commissioner Nirav R. Shah requiring persons working in patient care to wear surgical masks during flu season, if they have not been vaccinated against the flu.

James, an ally of de Blasio who's clashed with him at times, has filed a record total of 11 lawsuits since she took office, including one against the city for its treatment of children in foster care and another alleging the city Department of Buildings violates disabled people's civil rights by giving landlords a pass on fixing elevators.

A lawsuit that Metcalf's father filed against Erie County and nine Holding Center deputies remains the only court proceeding underway to hold people or an institution responsible.

That's the demand made in a lawsuit filed today against the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) by an animal law expert at Harvard University, together with the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and several other animal welfare groups.

High - stakes lawsuits, including ones filed by former players against the NFL, have added to the pressure to come up with methods for diagnosing and tracking the disorder in living people, but such efforts have just crossed the starting line, researchers said last week at a traumatic brain injury conference in Washington, D.C. Only in the past month or so have they arrived at a consensus about what CTE looks like in postmortem brain tissue, findings presented this week in Washington, D.C., at the American Academy of Neurology meeting.

Combine that with huge profit - seeking pharmaceutical corporations, fly - by - night supplement companies that have active lawsuits being filed against them for fraud, millions of dollars in advertising and promotions on TV and the internet targeting vulnerable people, and endless layers of websites full of contradictory information about scientific trials, clinical tests, and potentially bogus health promises, and it's no wonder why people end up confused and frustrated.

contractor Dietz Development made news when it filed a $ 750,000 Internet defamation lawsuit against its former customer, Jane Perez, for Participate in short, frequently - updated experiments about the traits people find attractive in faces and voices, find out how you compare to others, and

Crude (Unrated) Eco-documentary about the $ 27 billion lawsuit filed against Chevron over its polluting the Amazon jungle and its displacement of indigenous peoples living in the region.

June 29, 2017 • Three civil society organizations in France have filed a lawsuit against French banking giant BNP Paribas, accusing it of complicity in the 1994 genocide that killed more than 800,000 people.

Most people reading this are already aware of the patent lawsuits Apple has filed against Samsung.

Legal On Thursday 20th Century Fox filed six lawsuits against several dozen people the studio claims sold DVDs containing unfinished versions of X-Men Origins: Wolverine before the movie's May...

It protects you from financial responsibility if you cause damage to a person or their property and they file a lawsuit against you.

During the same period, more than 3,000 federal lawsuits were filed against credit card issuers alone, 400 of which were class - actions that involved masses of people.

Oftentimes people have no idea they are about to be sued when they learn that they have a student loan debt lawsuit filed against them.

A credit counseling company may offer to contact the creditor on the person's behalf and, after time has passed, the company will tell the person that the creditor is discharging the debt or a lawsuit against the creditor has been filed on their behalf.

A bid to require Louisiana courts to postpone slander lawsuits filed against people who allege they've been sexually assaulted is nearing final legislative passage.

Apparently one of those people cried a lot because Anthony Ventura of California has filed a class action lawsuit against Sony on «behalf of himself and all others similarly situated.

Epic Games said it wasn't going to let Fornite cheaters slide, and last month, it proved just that by filing lawsuits against people who allegedly helped people cheat in its free - to - play game.

For her first exhibition at the Istanbul Biennial in 1992, her installation, I Know People Like This (1992), made of metal statues of gods along with the three monkeys of wisdom surrounded by stars, subverts the symbol of the Turkish flag; deeply shocked, the authorities of the country filed a lawsuit against her.

13 Young People File Constitutional Climate Lawsuit Against Governor Inslee and the the State of Washington

That's why young people have filed a lawsuit against the Trump government to try to get them to take the actions that are needed.

«It's really devastating to the point of — you hate to tell people this — but if these measures were to pass, companies will have no other option but to file a lawsuit against the state of Oklahoma,» said Yates in an extensive interview with OK Energy Today.

In August, twenty - one young people, with the help of OCT, filed a landmark constitutional climate change lawsuit against the federal government, seeking a court order requiring the President to immediately implement a national plan to decrease atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide to a safe level: 350 ppm by the year 2100.

Tiggeman announced on her blog last week that she has now filed a lawsuit against Southwest seeking an injunction against the implementation of the Customer of Size policy because it provides no clear definition of the rules and allows the gate agent to discriminate against overweight people.

If you or your child has suffered an injury while at school or as a result of a school injury, you may have grounds to file a personal injury lawsuit against the school and / or the person responsible for the accident or injury.

In Ontario, it is possible to take legal steps to be compensated for this loss, by filing a lawsuit against the person who caused the death.