Sentences with phrase «plaintiffs in a law suit»

As expected, the plaintiffs in a law suit claiming that federally funded research on human embryonic stem cells (hESC) is illegal have appealed a ruling that dealt them a defeat earlier this summer.

Not exact matches

David Sanford, chairman of Sanford Heisler Sharp, the law firm that argued the largest - ever employment gender discrimination case to go to trial — a class action suit against Novartis Pharmaceuticals that resulted in a $ 253 million jury award for plaintiffs in 2010, reduced post-trial to $ 175 million — noted that in that case, the company had just three investigators for a workforce of thousands.

While a federal lawsuit unfolds, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has agreed not to enforce certain provisions of a new state ethics law passed requiring charitable organizations giving money to lobbying campaigns to disclose far more of their donors, according to the plaintiffs in the suit.

Earlier this year, the city's major police unions called for Emery's dismissal over his private law firm's role in a suit against the city on behalf of a former CCRB plaintiff.

In a suit filed Wednesday night, the plaintiffs are seeking a declaration that the law is unconstitutional and an injunction prohibiting enforcement of the provisions by the attorney's general's office and the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, which are the defendants in the casIn a suit filed Wednesday night, the plaintiffs are seeking a declaration that the law is unconstitutional and an injunction prohibiting enforcement of the provisions by the attorney's general's office and the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, which are the defendants in the casin the case.

The 80 minutes of occasionally spirited argument at the high court this morning focused on the two main issues in the greenhouse gas litigation: For the case to go forward, the plaintiffs must prove that the case has legal standing (they must show that the court is the right venue for resolving this dispute), and that the common law definition of nuisance can support suits over greenhouse gases.

As bloggers have noted, this case will be one of the first tests of a new Texas law designed to discourage capricious libel suits by putting the burden on the plaintiff (Wakefield in this case) to prove that the defendants» speech has caused damage before the suit can go forward.

Plaintiffs in the Robles case are the California School Boards Association, the state PTA, the association of California School Administrators, the California Teachers Association, the Youth & Education Law Project at Stanford Law School and 60 individuals, including the lead plaintiff, Maya Robles - Wong, who was a junior at Alameda High School when the suits were filed.

Plaintiff attorneys previously used this tactic in a handful of class - action law suits against some lenders.

Apple and five major publishing houses are being sued by a Seattle - based law firm, Hagens Berman, on behalf of two plaintiffs named in the suit and on behalf of consumers as a... [Read more...]

Apple and five major publishing houses are being sued by a Seattle - based law firm, Hagens Berman, on behalf of two plaintiffs named in the suit and on behalf of consumers as a whole.

Chong Park, a partner at Ropes & Gray law firm, is representing the ABA and the individual plaintiffs in this suit against the USDE.

Exxon and other fossil fuel companies could face «a huge universe of potential plaintiffs» in civil liability suits in coming years, said Carroll Muffett, a lawyer who is president and CEO of the Center for International Environmental Law, with offices in Washington and Geneva.

A number of legal bloggers roundly condemned Jones Day for bringing the suit, with Public Citizen lawyer Paul Alan Levy leading the backlash with his post at the Consumer Law & Policy Blog in which he said that the lawsuit deserved a prize for «grossest abuse of trademark law to suppress speech the plaintiff doesn't like.&raqLaw & Policy Blog in which he said that the lawsuit deserved a prize for «grossest abuse of trademark law to suppress speech the plaintiff doesn't like.&raqlaw to suppress speech the plaintiff doesn't like.»

(New Jersey Law Journal, Hiring Lawyers Before Buying Product Stews Plaintiff in Arizona Iced Tea Suit)

Our firm has handled class action law suits involving plaintiffs numbering in the thousands.

A typical example of forum shopping, according to Black's Law Dictionary, is where the plaintiff institutes a suit in the jurisdiction with a reputation for awarding high damages, disdain for political gimmicks or filing several similar suits and keeping the one with the preferred Judge.

In this week's issue of Forbes, Cardozo Law Professor Lester Brickman asserts that plaintiffs firms» use of contract lawyers and markup of their fees has «turned [shareholder] suits into ATM machines.»

In this groundbreaking case, the Michigan Court of Appeals ruled that the trial court correctly dismissed a legal malpractice suit against the attorney and his law firm because the underlying product liability claim plaintiffs» asserted should have been pursued was statutorily preempted under the federal Medical Device Act («MDA»).

In a release, Juroviesky and Ricci LLP says the suit, which has yet to name a lead plaintiff, alleges «class - wide violations of various statutory and common law duties to the students of York University.»

In some cases, a defendant in a civil law suit will retaliate against the plaintiff by filing a counter law suit, often of a dubious or spurious naturIn some cases, a defendant in a civil law suit will retaliate against the plaintiff by filing a counter law suit, often of a dubious or spurious naturin a civil law suit will retaliate against the plaintiff by filing a counter law suit, often of a dubious or spurious nature.

«plaintiffs filing class action suits could be refused a hearing in state court if they came from several different states, and then bounced out of federal court because their complaint called for applying the laws of multiple states.»

Generally, the law of standing requires that a «party» or «plaintiff» have sufficient personal interest in the suit and have suffered an injury.

In an injured seaman's suit against the owner of a commercial fishing vessel, a Gloucester County Circuit Court excludes plaintiff's expert because defendant had no duty under maritime law to perform a «job hazard analysis» on vessel - to - vessel ingress and egress,...

In a statement to Law Blog, Katherine Barrett, the general counsel for Anheuser - Busch's U.S. operations, said, «It's certainly possible that the $ 3.5 million fee collected by the plaintiffs» attorneys will outsize the benefit paid to consumers, an outcome that is increasingly more common in class action suits such as this.&raquIn a statement to Law Blog, Katherine Barrett, the general counsel for Anheuser - Busch's U.S. operations, said, «It's certainly possible that the $ 3.5 million fee collected by the plaintiffs» attorneys will outsize the benefit paid to consumers, an outcome that is increasingly more common in class action suits such as this.&raquin class action suits such as this.»

And in the seminal case Buckman Co. v. Plaintiffs Legal Committee (U.S. Supreme Court), we persuaded the Supreme Court that private tort suits predicated on purportedly false statements made to the F.D.A. are impliedly preempted by federal law.

White & Case is the only law firm to have defended successfully at trial pharmaceutical clients against both FTC and private plaintiff reverse payment suits, and we were counsel in the landmark SCOTUS ruling on reverse payments in FTC v. Actavis.»

Since joining Branch MacMaster in 1998, Don has acted for the defence and for plaintiffs in numerous class action law suits, including products liability, life insurance and health claims.

In a reverse class - action law suit, there is a single plaintiff who essentially is arguing that it has been harmed by the actions of multiple defendants.

In other words, the state can collect revenue for valuable social projects without deterring plaintiffs and their law - yers «from bringing suits and deterring difficult - to - detect or intentional torts.»

The controversial Honourable David Emerson featured in one BC law suit Wright v. British Columbia Trade Development Corp., (1994), 3 C.C.E.L. (2d) 254 (BC S.C.) where an employee alleged that he had been wrongfully dismissed in a letter from Emerson for a tasteless scam in which the plaintiff had forged the signatures of senior executives on gift cards accompanying skimpy lingerie to female employees, given on Valentine's Day.

Admission of copying proves one of the elements that the plaintiffs would normally need to prove in an infringement suit, making a law suit less risky from their perspective.

McKercher LLP was acting for the representative plaintiff in a class action law suit against CN Railway, for whom the firm was acting on other matters.

Attorneys for both plaintiffs and defendants will find comprehensive coverage of such matters as: the advantages and disadvantages of suits based on strict liability, negligence and breach of warranty; the use of state consumer protection statutes; the duty to warn and its innumerable ramifications; the liability of the manufacturers, retailers and other potential defendants in the distribution chain; successor liability; federal preemption of common law claims; monitoring product safety during design, manufacturing and distribution; causation theories in actions involving multiple manufacturers; product misuse and alteration; the elements of proof needed in an action; recovery for economic loss; punitive damages; and the government contractor defense.

Jacob Zowie, the plaintiff, is being represented by Komlossy Law and Levi & Korinsky LLP in the suit.

Both plaintiffs were savvy and strong, and they got foreclosure defense lawyers in their states to advocate for them, which has ended up in these law suits we are monitoring.