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But one of the attorneys representing the 25 plaintiffs in the case who oppose the school voucher program, North Carolina Justice Center's Christine Bischoff, offered a different perspective.

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«A lawsuit opens the door, and judges almost always allow for a plaintiff to have a fishing expedition,» said Robert S. Bennett, the Washington lawyer who represented Mr. Clinton in the Paula Jones case.

«A lawsuit opens the door, and judges almost always allow for a plaintiff to have a fishing expedition,» Robert Bennett, who represented Clinton in that case, told the New York Times.

The plaintiffs in the case call for more transparency from Uber's new CEO, Dara Khosrowshahi, who recently overhauled the company's values to include: «We do the right thing.

Can a line be drawn between the plaintiffs in this case and a majority of stockholders in a publicly - traded corporation who want their corporation to reflect some consensus religious belief?

Investor advocate, Mark Elliott — who recently won a class action on behalf of investors in Downer EDI — lodged the claim on behalf of investor John Webster, who will act as «lead plaintiff» in the case on behalf of other investors who join the action.

In that case Gaidry, a manufacturer of a sauce labelled «Tabasco Pepper Sauce,» brought suit against McIlhenny Company for damages for alleged wrongful conduct in interfering with the plaintiff's business by falsely and in bad faith representing to dealers throughout the country that it had an exclusive trade - mark in the name «Tabasco,» and threatening injunction and other legal proceedings against those who handled any sauce called «Tabasco» not made by the said McIlhenny CompanIn that case Gaidry, a manufacturer of a sauce labelled «Tabasco Pepper Sauce,» brought suit against McIlhenny Company for damages for alleged wrongful conduct in interfering with the plaintiff's business by falsely and in bad faith representing to dealers throughout the country that it had an exclusive trade - mark in the name «Tabasco,» and threatening injunction and other legal proceedings against those who handled any sauce called «Tabasco» not made by the said McIlhenny Companin interfering with the plaintiff's business by falsely and in bad faith representing to dealers throughout the country that it had an exclusive trade - mark in the name «Tabasco,» and threatening injunction and other legal proceedings against those who handled any sauce called «Tabasco» not made by the said McIlhenny Companin bad faith representing to dealers throughout the country that it had an exclusive trade - mark in the name «Tabasco,» and threatening injunction and other legal proceedings against those who handled any sauce called «Tabasco» not made by the said McIlhenny Companin the name «Tabasco,» and threatening injunction and other legal proceedings against those who handled any sauce called «Tabasco» not made by the said McIlhenny Company.

Judge Claudia Wilken, who presided over the O'Bannon case, issued an order declaring that the NCAA and some of the conferences will have to defend the rules against players receiving more than tuition, room and board (and now a cost - of - attendance stipend) in open court in a case brought by a plaintiff group that includes former Clemson cornerback Martin Jenkins and former Wisconsin forward Nigel Hayes.

There are also cases of other law - enforcement agencies taking related actions, such as Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) arresting and deporting back an in - coming witness or plaintiff who has valid court papers and visa.

He is likely to side with the four justices who were willing to rule with the plaintiffs in the Friedrichs case.

NYC Councilman Robert Jackson, who chairs the Council Education Committee and is an original plaintiff in the CFE case, is going to lead a protest Saturday against record setting education aid cuts proposed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the rollback of the settlement payout.

Lasher is running against Marisol Alcantara, a former union organizer for the New York State Nurses Association, and Robert Jackson, a former councilman who is also a plaintiff in a landmark case by the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, which argued that New York was under funding schools and not meeting its constitutional burden to provide children with a «sound basic education.»

In each case, lawyers for Emanuel Delacruz, who is blind, charged that the college's website is inaccessible to their plaintiff and therefore in violation of the Americans With Disabilities AcIn each case, lawyers for Emanuel Delacruz, who is blind, charged that the college's website is inaccessible to their plaintiff and therefore in violation of the Americans With Disabilities Acin violation of the Americans With Disabilities Act.

The plaintiff in the Supreme Court case is a familiar name in New York political circles: Shaun McCutcheon, an Alabama businessman and Republican activist who last year challenged New York's contribution limit to independent expenditure - only committees.

«If we allow this case in this instance, not only will the federal court be making new law that is contrary to New York law, but it would be opening the floodgates (to) thousands and thousands and thousands, millions of plaintiffs who have been exposed, (but) who have no present injury.»

The judges hearing a suit challenging the constitutionality of the decision by former President John Mahama to pardon the three Montie FM personalities who were jailed for contempt have criticised the plaintiffs in the case for delays in presenting their case.

For instance, a plaintiff in the Supreme Court case, Ellen T. Matloff of Yale Cancer Center, said that in 2006 she knew of a patient who had had breast and ovarian cancer who tested negative for BRCA1 and BRCA2, suggesting that this patient's cancers were not the result of a hereditary condition, according to the New York Times.

The subscriber, who is a co-defendant in the case, made sexual remarks during the chat, claimed to work for the nation's largest lingerie manufacturer, and told Davood that «she might have found her man in the plaintiff,» the suit states.

A second judge argued that the statute was even unconstitutional as applied to the particular plaintiffs in this case, who included several defendants who wished to publish swinger ads in the magazine illustrated with sexually - explicit pictures but did not want to sacrifice their anonymity.

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.

The plaintiffs in the case, minority students in California, had argued that California's teacher tenure system violates the equal protection clause because it protects teachers who are ineffective, and poor and minority students are more likely to be assigned these ineffective teachers.

In 1969, the U.S. DOJ intervened for the plaintiffs who sued the state of Mississippi in Coffey v. State Educational Finance Commission.45 In the five years before the case made it to the Supreme Court, the state offered vouchers for students to exercise «individual freedom in choosing public or private school,» which provided them with the opportunity to choose to attend racially segregated schools.46 Originally only offering $ 180 per student in 1964, the state Legislature increased the amount of each voucher to be $ 240 per student in 1968.In 1969, the U.S. DOJ intervened for the plaintiffs who sued the state of Mississippi in Coffey v. State Educational Finance Commission.45 In the five years before the case made it to the Supreme Court, the state offered vouchers for students to exercise «individual freedom in choosing public or private school,» which provided them with the opportunity to choose to attend racially segregated schools.46 Originally only offering $ 180 per student in 1964, the state Legislature increased the amount of each voucher to be $ 240 per student in 1968.in Coffey v. State Educational Finance Commission.45 In the five years before the case made it to the Supreme Court, the state offered vouchers for students to exercise «individual freedom in choosing public or private school,» which provided them with the opportunity to choose to attend racially segregated schools.46 Originally only offering $ 180 per student in 1964, the state Legislature increased the amount of each voucher to be $ 240 per student in 1968.In the five years before the case made it to the Supreme Court, the state offered vouchers for students to exercise «individual freedom in choosing public or private school,» which provided them with the opportunity to choose to attend racially segregated schools.46 Originally only offering $ 180 per student in 1964, the state Legislature increased the amount of each voucher to be $ 240 per student in 1968.in choosing public or private school,» which provided them with the opportunity to choose to attend racially segregated schools.46 Originally only offering $ 180 per student in 1964, the state Legislature increased the amount of each voucher to be $ 240 per student in 1968.in 1964, the state Legislature increased the amount of each voucher to be $ 240 per student in 1968.in 1968.47

The plaintiffs in this case are proud union members who are grateful for their union benefits.

The state education commissioner acknowledges the achievement gap, as does the attorney general and even Gov. Dannel Malloy, who went from plaintiff in the CCJEF lawsuit when he was mayor of Stamford to defendant in the case when he became governor in 2011.

The plaintiffs in the case were nine California school children who claimed that they were deprived of a quality of education by the application of the laws.

While the district withdrew as a defendant in the case before the trial started, she was called by the defense in an effort to impeach the testimony of a plaintiffs» witness, Nicholas Melvoin, a former LA Unified teacher at Markham Middle School in Watts, who had testified last month that teacher layoffs in 2009 resulted in effective teachers being dismissed and morale at the school eroded.

Los Angeles Unified parent Lauren Campbell has a child plaintiff in the case and said that even though efforts are underway to overhaul the evaluation system in the district, it won't do much to protect effective, less - senior teachers who she says she has seen get layoff notices year after year at Lanai Road Elementary School in Encino.

Earlier in the trial, one of the four student - plaintiffs who testified in the case, Raylene Monterroza, described difficulties she had with McLoughlin, her eighth - grade English teacher.

The lead plaintiff in the case is Tiffini Forslund who is backed by Bonnie Dominguez, Roxanne Draughn, Justina Person, and five of Minnesota's top attorneys.

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.

When the CCJEF v. Rell school funding lawsuit was filed 11 years ago, Stamford Mayor Dannel Malloy was a plaintiff in the case, one of a number of local elected officials who decried the fact that Connecticut's system of school funding was unfair, inadequate and unconstitutional.

As an aside, I also just happened across a press release announcing then that one of the case's current star witnesses, who was actually the first called to the stand by the plaintiffs — Los Angeles Superintendent John Deasy — also starting in 2009 served as the Gates Foundation's Deputy Director of Education.

The representative plaintiff in the case is Victoria resident Erin Sherry, who wanted out of a CIBC (TSX: CM) mortgage when her marriage dissolved.

The plaintiff in the case was Mark Tetzlaff, 57, a man who owed over $ 260,000 in student loans.

You might not have heard about it — but over the last few years there was a case working its way through the court system that could have made it easier for student loans to be discharged.The plaintiff in the case was Mark Tetzlaff, 57, a man who owed over $ 260,000 in student loans.

«This is the first time any case for a banana worker has come before a U.S. court,» Duane Miller, one of the attorneys representing more than 30 Nicaraguan plaintiffs who worked on plantations from 1964 to 1990, tells BusinessWeek.According to one upcoming lawsuit that was filed in 2004, Dole Fresh Fruit Co. and Standard Fruit Co., now part of Dole, were not only negligent, but that they fraudulently concealed information about DBCP's effects.

Plaintiffs with commercial litigation cases who are in need of funding can turn to LexShares, which then reviews the case for merit and, if it passes muster, puts out an offering for investors to buy.

Hollywood, Esq. reports that the plaintiffs in the case will be football players Nathaniel Claybrooks and Christopher Johnson, who are both African - American men.

In King County Superior Court, a case had to be stayed while a party sought new counsel after their attorney acknowledged that he falsified a memo and emails before turning them over to plaintiffs in a nationwide class - action lawsuit.7 Similarly, this spring, U.S. District Court Judge Lewis Kaplan, in a 500 - page opinion, blasted a legal team (who previously had «won» a $ 19 billion judgment in an Ecuadorean court) for their «egregious fraud» which included ghostwriting «independent reports.&raquIn King County Superior Court, a case had to be stayed while a party sought new counsel after their attorney acknowledged that he falsified a memo and emails before turning them over to plaintiffs in a nationwide class - action lawsuit.7 Similarly, this spring, U.S. District Court Judge Lewis Kaplan, in a 500 - page opinion, blasted a legal team (who previously had «won» a $ 19 billion judgment in an Ecuadorean court) for their «egregious fraud» which included ghostwriting «independent reports.&raquin a nationwide class - action lawsuit.7 Similarly, this spring, U.S. District Court Judge Lewis Kaplan, in a 500 - page opinion, blasted a legal team (who previously had «won» a $ 19 billion judgment in an Ecuadorean court) for their «egregious fraud» which included ghostwriting «independent reports.&raquin a 500 - page opinion, blasted a legal team (who previously had «won» a $ 19 billion judgment in an Ecuadorean court) for their «egregious fraud» which included ghostwriting «independent reports.&raquin an Ecuadorean court) for their «egregious fraud» which included ghostwriting «independent reports.»

The decision (PDF), in a case brought by the American Bar Association — which I'm sure has been receiving thank - you notes from grateful solo practitioners who now need not spend a lot of time drafting identity theft detection protocols — is worded fairly strongly in favor of the plaintiffs.

It is noteworthy that, as is often the case, the third parties themselves do not appear to have participated in the Quebec proceeding — instead it was the US Plaintiff, Neptune, who was opposing the Request.

Specifically, he asks, «When you are a defense counsel in a civil case who discovers that a plaintiffs» claim is fraudulent, do you have a duty to disclose this to the trial court?»

In the classic case of Robinson v. Lindsay, the Supreme Court of Washington held that a 13 - year - old minor child who drove a snowmobile — and as a result caused the plaintiff's finger to be severed — was to be held to an adult standard of care.

The plaintiff, who has the burden of proof in any case, will then put on his case by presenting the sworn testimony of witnesses.

Dismissing the complaints of tort reformists who argue that inflated jury verdicts in medical - malpractice cases are creating a crisis in the insurance industry, Satin says any plaintiffs» lawyer worth his salt knows that it doesn't pay to take on a bad case hoping for a settlement.

Plaintiffs in this case are major food manufacturers (including Kraft, Kellogg's, and General Mills) who purchased egg products from egg supplier defendants.

The other plaintiff, a 24 - year - old recent graduate of Harvard University who will be known in the case as D.C., has been forcibly injected with medications.

In a personal injury case, the injured individual (the plaintiff) will seek to recover damages in the form of financial compensation from the individual (the defendant), who caused the injurIn a personal injury case, the injured individual (the plaintiff) will seek to recover damages in the form of financial compensation from the individual (the defendant), who caused the injurin the form of financial compensation from the individual (the defendant), who caused the injury.

The Litigation Center actively works to develop legal principles that prevent forum shopping by plaintiffs» lawyers who attempt to game the system by bringing lawsuits in venues with no connection to their case.

On the facts of these appeals, it seems reasonable to infer that recognizing interest as an expense would lead to a transfer of resources between classes of parties in which unsuccessful defendants are exposed to the risks of paying high interest rates designed to pay for the cost of lending money, not just to the successful party in the case but other plaintiffs who receive financing but may not recover moneys to pay for their loans...