Sentences with phrase «plaintiffs sue over»

This is why, when plaintiffs sue over school funding or tenure rules, state governments — not districts — are the defendants.

A trust for General Motors holding many of the carmaker's liabilities from before its 2009 bankruptcy has revived a deal with plaintiffs suing over faulty ignition switches that might require the company to pay $ 1 billion in shares to resolve millions of claims.

Not exact matches

The Chamber is among the plaintiffs, including the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association and the Financial Services Institute, that sued the DOL over its fiduciary rule in a Texas court.

Nine plaintiffs, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association and the Financial Services Institute, sued the DOL over its fiduciary rule in a Texas court.

The report comes as government reform groups and some media organizations are urging Gov. Andrew Cuomo to sign a bill that would bolster the ability of plaintiffs in FOIL cases to be awarded attorneys» fees when they are successful in suing over access to government records.

The state Senate approved a bill that would require a public agency that is sued over a Freedom of Information Law request pay attorneys» fees of the person or entity who sued when the plaintiffs prevail.

The same thing happened over and over again, in state after state, in the ensuing years, including in Mississippi where my mother Marian Wright Edelman, on behalf of courageous black plaintiffs, sued several segregated local school districts.

State trial and appeals courts have ruled the plaintiffs don't have standing to sue over the scholarships.

In fact, 10 California teachers, including lead plaintiff Rebecca Friedrichs of Orange County, have sued CTA over this issue.

After working vigilantly with the Town of Morrison for over two years in an attempt to have the ordinance amended, the plaintiffs very reluctantly brought this lawsuit against former Chairman Todd Christensen, former Code Enforcer Mark Roberts, and the Town, only after Christensen's repeated message to residents — if you don't like it, sue us.

The court rejected the reasoning of the lower courts as manifestly unfair, since under their analysis it would not have been possible for the plaintiff to sue the school district over their alleged negligence in causing her son's injuries.

In the case of large corporations doing business nationwide, this usually meant that a plaintiff had a large number of states to choose from in which a defendant could be sued on any matter whatsoever which also facilitated the filing of class action lawsuits with plaintiffs from all over the world covered by a single lawsuit.

If the settling defendant is based in a different jurisdiction than the plaintiff, the defendant should also consider including a choice of venue / jurisdiction provision and a waiver of personal service on the counterparty with respect to any complaint arising from breach of the settlement agreement (e.g., if a company based in San Francisco is sued in a Small Claims Court in New York and the San Francisco company agrees to settle the claim, it should consider including a provision in the agreement that the courts in San Francisco shall have exclusive jurisdiction over any disputes arising from the breach of the settlement agreement, and the counterparty submits to the personal jurisdiction of such courts).

In over 180 dangerous drug cases, plaintiffs are suing drug manufacturer Johnson & Johnson for severe liver damage that they say was caused by Tylenol.

Further to my previous posts on this topic, if a Plaintiff successfully sues in the BC Supreme Court but receives damages below $ 25,000 they may be deprived of their court «costs» unless they had «sufficient reason» for choosing the Supreme Court over small claims court.

Boles is just one of hundreds of plaintiffs to sue Merck over claims that their bone injuries are result of taking Fosamax, which is a bisphosphonate and one of the more popular osteoporosis treatment and bone strengthening medications in use - by women, in particular.

Today's 8 - 1 decision in Bristol - Myers Squibb Co. v. Superior Court of California for San Francisco County makes clear that state courts have no jurisdiction over plainly out - of - state defendants being sued by out - of - state plaintiffs for injuries that allegedly occurred out - of - state.

MIAMI (Legal Newsline)- What's it worth for plaintiffs attorneys suing companies over their websites on behalf of blind clients to take the case to trial?

The Supreme Court ruled today that foreign plaintiffs can not sue a foreign defendant for securities fraud under 1934 Act Section 10 (b) over securities purchased outside the United States (so called f - cubed securities litigation).

Here, the plaintiff sued the LLC's former registered agent over a year after the LLC dissolved.

Lend Lease — Led Bovis Lend Lease's successful defence and resolution efforts in relation to the World Trade Centre clean - up litigation, where over 18,000 plaintiffs sued the City of New York, our client and others.

«Victorious Lawyer in Climate Case Still Critical of Plaintiffs» Strategy»: Lawrence Hurley of Greenwire has an article (via The New York Times) that begins, «The top government lawyer who successfully argued a major climate case before the Supreme Court this year has criticized his erstwhile opponents for claiming states should be able to sue polluters over greenhouse gas emissions under federal common law.»

The Second Circuit held — in the context of asbestos mass tort litigation — that a company with «continuous and systematic» business in a state (Connecticut) can't be sued by out - of - state litigation tourist plaintiffs over out - of - state asbestos exposure.

The plaintiffs complained that the print version of the article libelled them, but did not sue over it.

First, it involves a lawsuit by an aggrieved Telus customer sued his mobile service provider over its perceived mishandling of the account registration process (the plaintiff had recently moved from Koodo, a Telus subsidiary, to the parent company).

In an Ontario case affirmed by the Court of Appeal last year, there was a dispute over the registration of mortgage discharges and the plaintiffs sued the lawyer who had registered the discharges, alleging that these had been completed without their authorization.

In September 2002, the plaintiffs sued the defendant (IBG), who designed, supplied and installed an atrium skylight in 2000, over concerns about water infiltration and noises from the glass panels.

Had it been allowed to stand, California's courthouse doors would have been thrown open even wider to out - of - state plaintiffs suing out - of - state defendants over alleged out - of - state injuries.

After the seller accepted an offer, another prospective buyer (the plaintiff) sued the buyer whose offer had been accepted over who had the right to purchase the property.

This is a much bigger issue that has already spun out of control — and subsequently opens litigation for plaintiff's to sue an entire country's membership over local disputes, by naming a group like CREA in lawsuits that now extend nationwide in calculating damages.