Sentences with phrase «rather than a lawsuit»

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State lawmakers in New York and Washington recently passed measures restricting the use of so - called non-disclosure agreements for sexual harassment claims after the attorneys general of all 50 states urged legislative action in February to ensure that victims can bring lawsuits before judges rather than being forced into arbitration.

Rather than show her latest spring looks during the recent New York Fashion Week, the 41 - year - old entrepreneur was fending off a lawsuit from her ex-husband and business partner.

These drivers could be reclassified as employees of the company, rather than independent contractors, if the lawsuit prevails.

The lawsuit claims that rather than competing with one another to offer a lower, «real» price to the insurers, the drug makers are vying to offer the best payment to the pharmacy benefit manager, which is why they have been raising the list price.

Using Tronc's own company funds for the selective «stock buyback,» rather than his own money, he first removed that lawsuit threat that still hung over his head; Oaktree agreed, as part of this sale, to drop its potential claims.

«Wayne State — an arm of the Michigan State government — makes the remarkable claim that it violates university policies for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship to choose only Christian leaders rather than Jewish, Muslim or atheist ones,» says the lawsuit, filed by lawyers with Becket, a religious nonprofit.

Rather, debriefing was viewed as an avenue for lawsuit rather than prevention ofRather, debriefing was viewed as an avenue for lawsuit rather than prevention ofrather than prevention of such.

Rather than sanitize their inscription, they filed a lawsuit with the help of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, challenging the ban on devotional engravings.

Rather than risk a potentially costly lawsuit, county officials decided to trash the bids and exercise a renewal option on last year's contract, which is $ 500,000 more expensive.

Schoonmaker, a Rensselaer County resident, said he reported his concerns to Klein, who responded by demoting him to patrolman rather than taking any action, according to the lawsuit.

Rather than filing a new lawsuit, the Cayugas are asking to join a lawsuit filed by New York state in 2008 against the federal government.

Calling the GOP lawsuit «highly speculative,» and saying it failed to make a rational case against the law, a state judge ruled that for purposes of district lines and population counts, LATFOR must count incarcerated people as residing in the neighborhoods they call home rather than the prisons in which they are located.

Probably the best way to sum up his views, with apologies to a much more nuanced position, is that inside information should be viewed a property of a corporation rather than something that it «breaks the rules» to disclose, so civil lawsuit enforcement by the owner of the information ought to be the limit of any regulation.

The lawsuits also highlight the danger of being a private citizen rather than a public prosecutor: The people you attack might fight back in a potentially costly way.

The uncertainty created by Entergy's lawsuit led NRG to mothball the Dunkirk plant rather than convert it, Gaier said.

As further evidence that the layoffs were politically rather than financially motivated, the CSEA lawsuits quote statements made at a Thruway Authority and Canal Corp. board meeting, held just seven days before the layoffs took place, that the agencies were «in solid shape financially» and «doing very well this year.»

After the meeting, the attendees mostly stressed how productive the meeting was, rather than about the contentious co-locations or ongoing lawsuits.

USC told the paper that its efforts to recruit Aisen are routine in academia and that the university is «surprised and disappointed that» UCSD opted to file the lawsuit «rather than manage this transition collaboratively.»

Class Action Lawsuit No Longer the Case The U.S. Supreme Court recently ruled that merchants who object to having to accept American Express debit and credit cards must settle their dispute through arbitration, rather than banding together in a class action lLawsuit No Longer the Case The U.S. Supreme Court recently ruled that merchants who object to having to accept American Express debit and credit cards must settle their dispute through arbitration, rather than banding together in a class action lawsuitlawsuit.

«CSPI's litigation department is acting as co-counsel in a class action lawsuit against PepsiCo, on behalf of consumers who purchased Naked Juice products that were falsely and misleadingly labeled as 100 % Juice 100 % Fruit «ALL NATURAL» suggesting that the beverages» vitamin content is due to the nutritious fruits and juices, rather than the added synthetic compounds such as calcium pantothenate (synthetically produced from formaldehyde).

Instead of accepting JDate's acquisition offer (which he considered too low), he decided to fight the lawsuit rather than sell.

Extracts from the lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles, said: «Rather than merely publishing a news story reporting that Plaintiff's screenplay may have been circulating in Hollywood without his permission, Gawker Media crossed the journalistic line by promoting itself to the public as the first source to read the entire Screenplay illegally.»

«Sexually explicit names as well as homophobic slurs are being discouraged, but I fear the specter of lawsuits contributes to this rather than a genuine acceptance or tolerance of sexual minority youth.»

The irony disappears, however, if school finance lawsuits are viewed as political rather than legal events.

Rather than solve Connecticut's unconstitutional school funding formula, as he promised, Malloy has repeatedly worked to destroy the very lawsuit that he helped bring on behalf of Connecticut's students, parents, teachers and taxpayers.

Rather than paying the fine, ECOT is filing lawsuit after lawsuit to avoid payment, thus not only delaying the inevitable, but further wasting taxpayer treasure to combat the lawsuits.

Hover, rather than do the right thing, Malloy has spent the last four years trying to get the CCJEF lawsuit dismissed and when that failed, to get it postponed until after this year's election.

AB 1575 would address issues raised in the lawsuit by establishing uniform complaint, hearing and audit procedures for students and parents looking to challenge fees and receive reimbursements, rather than them having to go through a costly, drawn - out court case.

What's more, these lawsuits are bound to involve large sums of money because, whenever possible, the manufacturer rather than the driver will be blamed.

They would do better, in my extraordinarily humble, under - caffeinated opinion, to look to creative, future - minded solutions rather than start time - and energy - sucking lawsuits that will not help them get where they need to go.

The lawsuit alleges Apple and the book publishers employed an «agency model» in which publishers set their own e-book prices, rather than the traditional wholesale model in which publishers set a retail price and retailers set their own sales price.

The self - publishing division was the subject of a lawsuit in the US, which was settled out of court last August, during which the business faced accusations from plaintiff authors of seeking to make money from authors, rather than for authors.

The lawsuit was filed in April 2013 by New York - based law firm Giskan Solotaroff Anderson & Stewart, accusing Author Solutions of seeking to make money from authors, rather than for authors.

While enrolled in a debt settlement program, lawsuits are a possibility rather than a probability.

However, creditors have filed lawsuits in the U.S. courts, calling the measure illegal as Puerto Rico, and its debt, is subject to U.S. statutes rather than local law.

Rather than reduce the debt to zero balance on the books or file a lawsuit in court — which requires enormous red tape and, oftentimes, multiple court appearances — many creditors will accept a lesser amount.

The lawsuit alleges Principal used proprietary investment vehicles, rather than other investment vehicles, and share classes with higher fees for the underlying TDF investments, to produce more income for itself and its subsidiaries.

That mess can include more — rather than less — debt and a string of creditor lawsuits.

However, if there is a joint account holder on your credit card account, the credit card company may call the cosigner and try to recover payments rather than filing a lawsuit against you.

There are many reasons to attempt mediation rather than to file a lawsuit, including lower costs, quicker and better resolution, and improved, more practical outcomes for the animals involved.

New York AG claims Chase fee victory — Chase Card Services insists «customer feedback» — rather than attorney general or pending lawsuits — prompted company to rescind $ 10 fee.

SEGA have filed a lawsuit asking for # 640,000 to recoup Company Of Heroes 2 pre-orders made on Steam, the revenue from which apparently went to THQ rather than Relic Games or their new publisher.

«There's also a slightly technical issue that forms a second front in the DA's lawsuit: the fact that they went with an independent «pre-order» strategy rather than an established crowdfunded development site like Kickstarter.

But rather than ask for an equitable distribution of the pain that goes with substantial across - the - board reductions in carbon emissions, what the Obama Administration did instead was to bundle GHG reductions with reductions in other kinds of pollutants such as mercury and sulfur into a single plan targeted mostly at the coal industry — thus guaranteeing that their plan would be highly vulnerable to lawsuits of the kind that Lawrence Tribe is now leading.

They want Montanans to pay $ 2 billion to fight water - rights lawsuits that they would lose, rather than approve the negotiated Compact.

However, Kelly Sims Gallagher is not merely a coincidentally handy local Tufts University professor, she has direct connections with the same set of leaked industry memo phrases seen within the growing numbers of California global warming lawsuits — the «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact» strategy phrase and the «older, less - educated males» / «younger, lower - income women» targeting phrases — which are widely repeated elsewhere as proof that the fossil fuel industry «pays skeptic climate scientists to participate in misinformation campaigns» undermining the certainty of catastrophic man - caused global warming (despite those memos being worthless as evidence, but that is another matter).

The Friends of the Earth Netherlands case is the first climate lawsuit demanding a fossil fuel company acts on climate change, rather than seeking compensation.

Naturally, the plaintiffs do not say, which only underscores how this lawsuit is a rhetorical weapon to get media attention, rather than a legitimate legal pursuit.

The lawsuit came about when New York City decided to require manufacturers to offer free at - home pick - up for junked electronics, rather than requiring consumers to take their old devices to collection points.

Threats of lawsuits designed to keep you busy and broke defending yourself, rather than engaging in productive work / activity...