Sentences with phrase «plaintiff in the lawsuit»

They shouldn't have to fight in court as plaintiffs in lawsuits, and their parents shouldn't have to fight with school boards each year to keep critical programs and dedicated teachers.

Two other passengers in the crash were also plaintiffs in the lawsuit.

Jackson was the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit against New York State for failing to properly fund the city's public schools.

Newdow, a physician as well as a lawyer, is lead plaintiff in a lawsuit filed in Washington, D.C., this week by atheists and atheist groups.

(Our legal - affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer earlier this week spoke with attorney John Henry Browne, a lead plaintiff in the lawsuit against Avvo.

Shemika Murphy, a petition supporter and a named plaintiff in the lawsuit who has a second - grader at McKinley, was among those who refused to participate in the verification process.

On a larger scale, rural districts are often the key plaintiffs in lawsuits challenging state school financing systems that clearly do not provide constitutionally required funding for economically disadvantaged students.

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.»

The groups also sent an open letter to Gov. Andrew Cuomo asking him to rescind the 13 - hour rule and declare the 24 - hour workday illegal, said JoAnn Lum, an organizer with the National Mobilization Against SweatShops (NMASS), one of plaintiffs in the lawsuit.

Vermont trial attorneys John Maley and Chris Maley have successfully represented plaintiffs in lawsuits involving automobile accidents, boating accidents, industrial and farming accidents, premises liability, construction accidents, skiing accidents, products liability, medical malpractice, and all manner of personal injury claims.

Raymond, who worked a beat in Brooklyn, is the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit brought by 12 minority officers in August claiming they were all pressured to meet quotas.

Plaintiffs in these lawsuits say they favor high standards and accountability and then point to data showing that large numbers of students in urban districts fail to meet heightened standards.

Three female plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed Wednesday «allege a conspiracy spanning more than two decades to conceal sexual abuse committed by church members» throughout the 1980s and 1990s, according to the Associated Press.

The UFT had argued that the parents and children named as plaintiffs in the lawsuit did not say how they were personally harmed, but the judge ruled that they «clearly have standing.»

Each of the Individual Plaintiffs in this lawsuit graduated from law school with six figures in student loan debt.

CLAYTON, Ala. — Today plaintiffs in a lawsuit against Barbour County, Alabama, issued a subpoena to the Barbour County Humane Society, a private shelter in Clayton, Alabama.

Sunday, the New York Times reported that lawyers, lawsuit lenders, and marketing firms worked in tandem to encourage women to have «often - unneeded surgery» to make them better plaintiffs in lawsuits against medical device -LSB-...]

In 1989, fourth - grader Milo Sheff became the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit challenging the segregation of Hartford - area public schools.

I am attorney Bill Galione, and my firm, The Galione Law Firm, P.A., focuses on representing plaintiffs in lawsuits that involve personal injuries to children.

Staten Island lawyer Ronald Castorina Jr. is representing eight plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed last Thursday against Cuomo, arguing the governor is violating their constitutional rights by failing to set a special election date.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Of the eight people named as plaintiffs in a lawsuit against Gov. Andrew Cuomo, six are from Staten Island with two from Brooklyn.

Hansen helped connect Olson with another child plaintiff previously, when Olson was looking to find children who would act as plaintiffs in a lawsuit against government agencies.

This week on the legal affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we speak with attorney John Henry Browne, a lead plaintiff in the lawsuit against the new lawyer rating service Avvo.

One of the two plaintiffs in this lawsuit is well - known Silicon Valley investment banker Robert Colman.

Mary Brown became the face of the anti-Obamacare movement last year, as she and Kaj Ahlburg became the lead plaintiffs in a lawsuit to stop the administration's healthcare overhaul.

David and Francine Wheeler, whose 6 - year - old son Benjamin was killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, are plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the manufacturer of the weapon used in the mass killing.

A Minnesota judge sided with plaintiffs in a lawsuit to stop the Department of Labor fiduciary rule, but also granted a stay.

Aaron Bitzer, 35, was so angered by the California ban, which will take effect on Jan. 1, that he went public and became a plaintiff in a lawsuit challenging the law as unconstitutional.

Fed up, Parham became a plaintiff in the lawsuit filed Wednesday against Oak Brook - based McDonald's by the Center for Science in the Public Interest.

The plaintiff in that lawsuit?

Plaintiffs in the lawsuit to halt the sale included Barbara Sanchez, secretary of local group the Committee to Save Mount Manresa, Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis and State Senator Diane Savino.

The Appeals Court panel voted five to one for the plaintiffs in a lawsuit, which argued that the empty space was parkland and was protected under state law.

The plaintiffs in the lawsuit — which is being spearheaded by several GOP county chairmen in the district, including Steuben County Chairman Bill Hatch and Ontario County Chairman Jay Dutcher — are a group of 29th District constituents who claim they've been disenfranchised, since they will be without representation until 2011 if there is no special election.

King's father, David King, was lead attorney for the plaintiffs in a lawsuit alleging the Senate violated the state's Fair District's Amendment in the drawing of state Senate and congressional district lines.

Following the 2015 general election, Essex County Democratic Party Chair Bethany Kosmider, the plaintiff in the lawsuit, requested access to the voting records with a FOIL request.

«We had strong community support for finding alternatives and we made a good argument,» said CSEA Capital Region President Kathy Garrison, a county resident who is a plaintiff in the lawsuit.

Dixie is the plaintiff in a lawsuit against Antonacci, in which he claims Antonacci violated his civil rights.

Green Party organizer and activist Carl J. Romanelli was the plaintiff in the lawsuit and has been a tireless ballot access organizer for the GP:

Fugh - Berman is serving as an expert witness for the plaintiffs in a lawsuit brought by patients against the company.

The plaintiffs in the lawsuit were two minor children and their parents who claimed that the children's birth defects had been caused by their mothers» prenatal use of the anti-nausea drug, Bendectin.

On Dec. 5, Cory Toth, a former professor at the University of Calgary (U of C), appeared in an Edmonton, Alberta courtroom as the plaintiff in a lawsuit filed in Provincial Civil Court.

February 1, 2011 — Livestock growers and two counties — plaintiffs in a lawsuit that asked the federal government to remove Mexican gray wolves from the wild in New Mexico — filed a motion seeking voluntary dismissal of their suit without prejudice (meaning that they could refile a similar suit later).

The «special masters» will work with state officials and plaintiffs in the lawsuit, which resulted in a decision by the state's highest court that the state was inadequately financing the nation's largest school district.

I am a principal in one of the towns that is a plaintiff in the lawsuit [challenging the legality of New Hampshire's school - funding method].

Further, the plaintiffs in this lawsuit would have to show a real dispute between the school district and the DOE.

The plaintiffs in these lawsuits often draw on the same or similar reports that critics of NCLB use to make their case that a large funding shortfall exists related to NCLB's mandates.