Sentences with phrase «plaintiff against the district»

During a candidate's forum, for example, CommUNITY candidate Kevin Leung said he opposes vouchers and was proud to serve as a plaintiff against the district to block the program.

Not exact matches

In fact, in December 2017 a Virginia district court judge ruled against a female plaintiff in a lawsuit alleging sex discrimination, sexual harassment, and retaliation against defense contractor BAE Systems, in part, because she «did not take advantage of BAE's harassment reporting procedures of which she was well aware.»

On Wednesday, a judge in the Southern District of New York dismissed a key group of plaintiffs in litigation against Facebook for allegedly mishandling its 2012 initial public offering.

Raymond Abbott's name appeared as lead plaintiff in a court case brought by Camden and several other poor school districts against the State of New Jersey, demanding that the state provide equal funding for all schools.

Jack, District Judge: Plaintiff, McIlhenny Company, a corporation of the State of Maine, which, with its predecessors, for many years past, has manufactured at Avery Island, Louisiana, a condiment known as «Tabasco Pepper Sauce,» brings this action against defendant Ed.

Friends of Meigs Field and other plaintiffs filed the suit April 4 against the city and the Chicago Park District, which owns the land.

An Albany County state supreme court justice has ruled against plaintiffs from eight «small city school districts» who contended that the state has failed to adequately fund them in light of the Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit that almost a decade ago found that New York City schools had been systemically shortchanged when it came to state aid.

However, on 10th July, the Commission received an order given by the Federal High Court, Abuja and dated 6th July, 2017, directing the «parties to maintain the status quo till the determination of the Plaintiff's motion on notice, in respect of the suit filed by the concerned senator, seeking orders of injunction against the Commission to stop it from acting on the petition by the Kogi West Senatorial District Registered Voters.

But on the same 10th July, the Commission received an order given by the Federal High Court, Abuja and dated 6th July, directing the «parties to maintain the status quo till the determination of the plaintiff's motion on notice» in respect of the suit filed by the concerned senator, seeking orders of injunction against the Commission to stop it from acting on the petition by the registered voters of Kogi West Senatorial District.

The summons states, «Beginning on November 1, 2017, Defendants knowingly and / or recklessly published or caused to be published false, misleading statements against Plaintiff Michelle J. Schoeneman, a candidate for the Erie County Legislature for the 10th Legislative District.

Taking audience questions about American Violet at the Telluride film festival, she alleged that even after district attorney John Paschall settled out of court with her and the other plaintiffs in an ACLU suit, he enforced an informal employment blacklist against her in her hometown of Hearne, Texas.

The fiery California atheist who last week lost his bid at the U.S. Supreme Court to get «under God» stricken from the Pledge of Allegiance vows to continue the fight with new plaintiffs, preferably in cases against school districts all over the country.

In the end, the NEA and the nine school districts that have taken this legal plunge face a difficult task to show that they are the right plaintiffs to bring this suit, at this time, against this agency.

Student plaintiffs filed a lawsuit last May against the state of California and several local districts, including Los Angeles Unified.

Appeal from judgment entered by the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Mark D. Fox, Magistrate Judge), which held that defendant Board of Education of the Newburgh Enlarged City School District intentionally discriminated against plaintiff Santina Polera in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act, 42 U.S.C. § 12101 et seq., and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, 29 U.S.C. § 794, and awarded damages to plaintiff.

On August 7, 2009, Judge David G. Campbell of the Arizona federal district court dismissed the plaintiffs» complaint against Petland and Hunte Corporation.

Update Aug. 9: On August 7, 2009 U.S. District Judge David G. Campbell, sitting in the Arizona federal district court, dismissed without prejudice the plaintiffs» Complaint against Petland and Hunte Corporation. The judge did not allow oral argument. (A copy of the judge's dismissal is attached and can be downloaded at the end of this aDistrict Judge David G. Campbell, sitting in the Arizona federal district court, dismissed without prejudice the plaintiffs» Complaint against Petland and Hunte Corporation. The judge did not allow oral argument. (A copy of the judge's dismissal is attached and can be downloaded at the end of this adistrict court, dismissed without prejudice the plaintiffs» Complaint against Petland and Hunte Corporation. The judge did not allow oral argument. (A copy of the judge's dismissal is attached and can be downloaded at the end of this article.)

Plaintiff won a FEHA - based lawsuit against both a school district and an individual in Norton v. San Bernardino City Unified School District, district and an individual in Norton v. San Bernardino City Unified School District, District, Case No.

In the libel field, he is perhaps best known as the plaintiff who in 1990 won the then - largest libel verdict ever, $ 34 million, against The Philadelphia Inquirer, over a story that criticized his work as an assistant district attorney.

U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth awarded damages to about 80 plaintiffs in the suit against the Iranian government, Law360 reports.

The judge ruled specifically that the defendant was not on actual notice of the accident until over eight months after the accident and that the plaintiff failed to meet the necessary burden of showing how the district would not be «substantially prejudiced» by allowing the plaintiff's case to proceed against the defendants.

The district court had ruled that the plaintiff's claim was barred by the three - year statute of limitations for negligence lawsuits against government actors in North Dakota.

Although nearly four years have passed since the day of the accident, this latest ruling will ultimately permit the plaintiff to pursue her claim against the school district.

On January 31, 2018, Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC and Susman Godfrey, Interim Co-Lead Class Counsel filed a consolidated toxic tort class action complaint on behalf of plaintiffs against E.I. DuPont de Nemours Company (NYSE: DD), and its former wholly - owned subsidiary, The Chemours Company (NYSE: CC) with the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of North Carolina, Southern Division.

Michael Cernovich just blogged a decision by the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upholding (part of) a district court's decision in Carhart v. Gonzales, in which the plaintiffs sought an injunction against the enforcement of the so - called Partial - Birth Abortion Act of 2003.

When the Chaparros filed their lawsuit against Carnival arising out of their daughter's death, and also brought a claim on behalf of her brother for the intentional infliction of emotional distress, the United States District Court Judge dismissed the claim, ruling that under the federal pleading standards, the Plaintiffs had failed to properly state a claim for relief.

This 1992 case has definitely walked down it, but at the ned of the day, the plaintiffs and their counsel were singing the Pink Floyd anthem «Another Brick in the Wall» after consistently banging their collective heads against a popular procedural wall — Northern District of Illinois Local Rule 12 governing the briefing and submission of summary judgment motions.

The handwritten complaint filed in the U.S. District Court in Scranton alleges that the U.S. Justice Department «is heading the investigation into allegations of crimes against Humanity» involving Google's founders and that the plaintiff's «safety is in jepordy.»

In plaintiff customer's suit alleging that tainted seafood he consumed at Frankie Rowland's Steakhouse in Roanoke triggered his Guillain - Barré syndrome, the Roanoke U.S. District Court grants summary judgment against Sam Rust Seafood Inc. on motions filed by Performance Food Group...

Plaintiff filed a motorcycle accident lawsuit against her husband in district court, alleging one count of negligence in connection with the accident.

Believing the accident to be the fault of the school bus driver, the plaintiff filed a personal injury lawsuit against the driver of the bus as well as the school district that employed the driver.

In Sprunk v. Prisma LLC (August 23, 2017), the Court of Appeal (Second Appellate District, Division One) considered whether a defendant in a putative class action can waive its right to compel arbitration against absent class members by deciding not to seek arbitration against the named plaintiff.

Served as lead counsel for the defendant and obtained reversal by the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals of a district court's order certifying a 29 - jurisdiction class action alleging consumer fraud by a Fortune 50 retailer, and subsequently successfully moved for dismissal with prejudice of named plaintiff's claims and obtained a nationwide injunction against future attempts to certify a class based on similar allegations.

The U.S. Supreme Court, in Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. v. Haeger, No. 15 - 1406 (SCOTUS April 18, 2017), clarified the standard to be used by district judges in imposing «inherent power of the court to control judicial process» sanctions as far as setting an appropriate amount of sanctions, reversing a $ 2.7 million sanctions award in favor of plaintiff and against defendant Goodyear after a case was settled.

In a private security contractor's defamation suit against the U.S. involving an allegedly defamatory email, the Norfolk U.S. District Court dismisses the suit because the plaintiff contractor failed to exhaust administrative remedies as required by the Federal Tort Claims Act.

A Michigan district court judge determined that the Clean Air Act did not preclude plaintiffs from bringing 53 state law fraudulent concealment and consumer protection claims against General Motors LLC and its suppliers for developing and installing devices on GM diesel trucks to cheat emissions tests.

[2] In 2003 and 2005 the plaintiffs obtained judgments against the defendants, The Iranian Ministry of Information and Security («MIS»), the Islamic Republic of Iran («Iran») and The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corp. (the «Revolutionary Guards»), in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia (the «US Judgments»).

Plaintiff Kristen Elliott - Thomas initially filed an action against the Warren City School District, its board of education and individual members in 2012.

Won a plaintiff's judgment of $ 23 + million for medical device company after two - week trial in Northern District of California against former director for breach of fiduciary duty.

Plaintiff - Appellant Richard Lee Pollard, a federal inmate, appeals the district court's order dismissing his Eighth Amendment claims against employees of a private corporation operating a federal prison under contract with the Bureau of Prisons.

A District Court in Stockholm, Sweden, last week ruled against an international group of content providers who sought to force a local Internet service provider to block The Pirate Bay, a file - sharing site, said lawyers for the plaintiffs.

In eDekka LLC v. 3Balls.com Inc., Eastern District of Texas Judge Rodney Gilstrap ruled against plaintiff eDekka's patent infringement claims and invalidated the patent in question.

The first of the two class actions launched against Coinbase came on Thursday courtesy of lead plaintiff Jeffrey Berk, who, in an eighteen - page complaint filed with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, alleged that Coinbase staff (and possibly others) partook in insider trading with regards to its Bitcoin Cash (BCH) listing; forcing Coinbase users to forgo «any opportunity to buy at a fair price» across the three - day window spanning December 19 through December 21.