Sentences with phrase «ruinous legal»

In my opinion, @coinbase is courting serious, maybe ruinous legal trouble if it doesn't give its users the full value of the Bitcoin fork

It's also a victory for trolls, which are shell companies backed by private equity firms and lawyers that use patents (often obtained from Microsoft and others under a «privateering» arrangement) to wage ruinous legal war against everyone from Martha Stewart to individual app developers.

In particular, patent trolls continue their deplorable business model of buying up patents and using the threat of litigation to force companies — frequently startups — to pay up or face ruinous legal fees.

The world's most popular digital currency exchange, Coinbase, is under fire from angry customers over its decision not to support a new version of bitcoin that could also make it vulnerable to «ruinous legal trouble,» according to a prominent legal scholar.

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Other complications arise from the girl's family, subsistence farmers who don't even know what a lawyer is and worry about the possibility of a ruinous feud with the dead man's family if they take legal action to defend their daughter.

Abacus: Small Enough to Jail (Google Play, Amazon Video, iTunes, Vudu, YouTube) In the wake of the ruinous late - 2000s subprime mortgage crisis, the family - owned Chinatown bank Abacus Federal Savings faced harsh legal comeuppance while the well - funded giants were bailed out and deemed too big to fail.