Sentences with phrase «risk legal action»

The government of Kathleen Wynne is being urged to move quickly to negotiate with First Nations who may be impaired by the semi-privatization of Hydro One — or risk legal action that would stymie the $ 15 - billion deal and lead potentially to years of delay.

One day after a British woman was fined # 16,000 for illegally sharing Topware Interactive's Dream Pinball 3D, a consortium of developers (including Topware) have announced that they will write to 5000 individuals who have shared their games and tell them to either pay # 300 or risk legal action.

The agent informs you that if you don't pay up — and soon — you could risk legal action.

But never drop this condition from your offer unless your mortgage broker is confident that financing is available: if you don't get approved, you could be scrambling for a high - interest bridge mortgage or risk legal action from the seller.

District officials were advised that they risk legal action if school disciplinary policies have «a disparate impact, i.e., a disproportionate and unjustified effect on students of a particular race.»

The state Department of Environmental Conservation ordered Northrop Grumman late last week to speed up treatment of a contaminated groundwater plume in Bethpage or risk legal action.

If not, you aren't just wasting ad dollars, you're risking legal action and potentially alienating your prospects with unsolicited phone calls.

12 months later the board offer # 40mil & # 1 for suarez, you can take the piss out the price all you want, the fact is we triggered the release clause and Liverpool faught to keep him, risking legal actions to keep him.

The departments, citing the Civil Rights Act of 1964, gave the school districts «guidance on how to identify, avoid, and remedy discriminatory discipline,» telling them they risked legal action if school disciplinary policies had «a disparate impact, i.e., a disproportionate and unjustified effect on students of a particular race.»

In 2014 the departments of Education and Justice together sent each school district a letter advising them that they risked legal action if disciplinary policies had a disparate impact on students of a particular race.

Not exact matches

Some plan sponsors have been sued for poorly performing portfolios, others for failing to educate participants about the risks of investing, but many observers predict a wave of legal action over the fees — high fees and hidden fees — embedded in the mutual funds that underpin so many retirement accounts.

Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

The Greens also want Facebook to pay damages, which would make it easier for individuals in similar cases to take the financial risk of taking legal action.

«Assessing the legal risks of all pending enforcement actions is a critical part of the transition process and standard procedure for new leadership at enforcement agencies such as the Bureau,» the statement said.

Important factors that may affect the Company's business and operations and that may cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward - looking statements include, but are not limited to, operating in a highly competitive industry; changes in the retail landscape or the loss of key retail customers; the Company's ability to maintain, extend and expand its reputation and brand image; the impacts of the Company's international operations; the Company's ability to leverage its brand value; the Company's ability to predict, identify and interpret changes in consumer preferences and demand; the Company's ability to drive revenue growth in its key product categories, increase its market share, or add products; an impairment of the carrying value of goodwill or other indefinite - lived intangible assets; volatility in commodity, energy and other input costs; changes in the Company's management team or other key personnel; the Company's ability to realize the anticipated benefits from its cost savings initiatives; changes in relationships with significant customers and suppliers; the execution of the Company's international expansion strategy; tax law changes or interpretations; legal claims or other regulatory enforcement actions; product recalls or product liability claims; unanticipated business disruptions; the Company's ability to complete or realize the benefits from potential and completed acquisitions, alliances, divestitures or joint ventures; economic and political conditions in the United States and in various other nations in which we operate; the volatility of capital markets; increased pension, labor and people - related expenses; volatility in the market value of all or a portion of the derivatives we use; exchange rate fluctuations; risks associated with information technology and systems, including service interruptions, misappropriation of data or breaches of security; the Company's ability to protect intellectual property rights; impacts of natural events in the locations in which we or the Company's customers, suppliers or regulators operate; the Company's indebtedness and ability to pay such indebtedness; the Company's ownership structure; the impact of future sales of its common stock in the public markets; the Company's ability to continue to pay a regular dividend; changes in laws and regulations; restatements of the Company's consolidated financial statements; and other factors.

Important factors that may affect the Company's business and operations and that may cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward - looking statements include, but are not limited to, increased competition; the Company's ability to maintain, extend and expand its reputation and brand image; the Company's ability to differentiate its products from other brands; the consolidation of retail customers; the Company's ability to predict, identify and interpret changes in consumer preferences and demand; the Company's ability to drive revenue growth in its key product categories, increase its market share or add products; an impairment of the carrying value of goodwill or other indefinite - lived intangible assets; volatility in commodity, energy and other input costs; changes in the Company's management team or other key personnel; the Company's inability to realize the anticipated benefits from the Company's cost savings initiatives; changes in relationships with significant customers and suppliers; execution of the Company's international expansion strategy; changes in laws and regulations; legal claims or other regulatory enforcement actions; product recalls or product liability claims; unanticipated business disruptions; failure to successfully integrate the business and operations of the Company in the expected time frame; the Company's ability to complete or realize the benefits from potential and completed acquisitions, alliances, divestitures or joint ventures; economic and political conditions in the nations in which the Company operates; the volatility of capital markets; increased pension, labor and people - related expenses; volatility in the market value of all or a portion of the derivatives that the Company uses; exchange rate fluctuations; risks associated with information technology and systems, including service interruptions, misappropriation of data or breaches of security; the Company's inability to protect intellectual property rights; impacts of natural events in the locations in which the Company or its customers, suppliers or regulators operate; the Company's indebtedness and ability to pay such indebtedness; tax law changes or interpretations; and other factors.

He also warned this action should serve notice to the entire industry that financial incentive programs carry serious risks that can have serious legal consequences.

If the ACCC is satisfied that the relevant legal test is met and grants authorisation, this removes the risk of legal action under the competition provisions.

BID's legal action seeks to find out if G4S has been designated a high risk contractor, and if it hasn't, seek that it is designated as such.

«This legislation empowers loved ones and law enforcement to take immediate legal action to protect public safety if they notice dangerous behavior by people who may be at risk,» Pleu said.

«Numerous organisations have recognised that use of antibiotics in agriculture poses risks to human health,» says Avinash Kar, a San Francisco - based lawyer with the Natural Resources Defense Council, which initiated legal action last year to try to force the FDA to phase out the growth promoters.

Members of these grassroots outfits, often operating at the risk of arrest or harassment, press for environmental improvements through public demonstrations and the limited legal action allowed.

The risk of legal attack on any individual scientist is small, but there are actions researchers can take to protect and defend themselves against politically - motivated attacks.

At the risk of them threatening «legal» action, IMO, Repeat, IMO, the Heartland Institute and their director of communications are, IMO, Morons.

The network will help them start conversations and engage with local and national decision makers who have not just a moral but a legal duty to take urgent and bold action to tackle the illegal and harmful levels of air pollution that are putting their families» health at risk.

Training substitute teachers reduces the risk that the substitutes would do something that would cause legal action.

If an academy were to seek to move that child from the school named in the plan it would appear highly likely that they would be at risk of legal action by the parent (and potentially the local authority would be an interested party too) and this may form the basis of a complaint to the Education Funding Agency (EFA).

Good point, T - Mobile retail reps should definitely risk their jobs and possible legal action to get you a hands - on video a few days sooner.

Requiring this case to be litigated on an individual basis would risk disparate results in nearly identical suits and exponentially increase the cost of litigation... Class action, by contrast, would achieve economies of time and effort, resolving common legal and factual issues «without sacrificing procedural fairness or bringing about other undesirable results.»

Though such legal processes would take a longer period of time than the simple action of repossession for which secured loan lenders are entitled, someone taking an unsecured loan is still risking his assets if he fails to repay his debt.

However, if you don't use the cards wisely you'll be in serious debt and risks of facing with legal actions for failing to pay off your cards when they become due.

Though the risk of repossession may drive you away from secured loans, the truth is that even with an Unsecured Bad Credit Loan, the lender can take legal action against you to recover his money.

During a recent debtor legal action, we became painfully aware that any money we put in our cushion fund is liquid and therefore at immediate risk of being appropriated.

Do you really want to run the risk of phone calls and legal action?

Extended on credit, unsecured debt presents a higher risk to a lender since - in the United States - there are no debtor's prisons and if a borrower defaults on a loan, there is little that a lender can do about it except seek costly legal action and report to the credit reporting agencies.

Rating agencies are taking action in response to their view of the increased risk that certain FFELP ABS bonds will not be paid in full on their legal final maturity dates as a result of slower than expected repayment rates on FFELP student loans.

In addition to the legal action, the SEC also released a press statement warning US customers the risk of depositing money with foreign based Binary firms.

By taking this approach when dealing with an original creditor, you greatly increase the risk that the file will be escalated for swift legal action.

To cover modules from introduction to climate change adaptation, agriculture and food security, to international legal frameworks, impacts and risks assessments, action prioritization and addressing issues of governance and finance, the MOOC team leveraged knowledge from more than 40 experts and practitioners in this field.

While the risk of legal attack on any individual scientist is small, there are actions scientists can take to help reduce the risk of attack, especially from invasive FOIA requests.

Is there anyone out there in RC land that has a spare $ 100K sitting around that they would be willing to risk by giving it to John Cook to take the appropriate and in fact necessary legal action?

I'm thinking more of practices devoted to regulating the business and personal affairs of clients in ways that will reduce the risk of actions or omissions that create those legal problems.

Here Clive Rich, lawyer and chairman of online legal service provider LawBite, gives Lawyer Monthly a rundown of the latest important changes every small or medium enterprise needs to keep an eye out for, and potentially take action on or risk being fined.

A lawyer's reputation is everything, and plagiarism risks damage to one's reputation, as well as the threat of being blacklisted by Google and the threat of legal action should the original author wish to defend her copyright.

The legal profession is a demanding one, and, unless we take conscious action toward maintaining and feeding our most intimate relationships, they run the risk of withering and dying as we pound away trying to make partner.

The necessary first step is a legal risk analysis of current activities and operations, followed by the implementation of human rights policies and supplier codes of conduct, and swift action to investigate and remedy problem areas.

Managing Legal Risks: Trends in Data Privacy & Security Class Action Litigation, Bryan Cave LLP Bulletin, November 2013

Managing Legal Risks: Trends in Data Privacy & Security Class Action Litigation, Bryan Cave LLP Bulletin, September 2013

As a condition of being admitted to train in X at any training premises, I assume the risk of all injuries, losses and damages and do hereby hold the training center, its instructors and agents or persons otherwise connected with the X classes harmless from any and all liability (including legal costs) for all claims, actions or damages due to injuries, losses or damage suffered by me or caused to a third party by me during the course of X training, or arising out of the activities of the X classes, or any other activities occurring on the premises of the training facilities or elsewhere.

Lawyers explaining the consequences of a certain legal action should be prepared that a client may be prone to more risk taking to avoid a loss.