Sentences with phrase «series of lawsuits»

CLEVELAND — A key legal battle was resolved after six years when, in May, Century 21 Real Estate Corp. and RE / MAX International settled a series of lawsuits between the two companies over advertising practices.

Strategically getting the U.S. government involved in this recent lawsuit is a brilliant move by Premsrirut and Adams, which falls in a series of lawsuits filed over the years fighting the alleged crime of exorbitant in the HOA collection fees being charged to Las Vegas home owners.

A series of lawsuits and appeals have been filed.

This week, Apple conceded that it does slow down older iPhones in a bid to keep the phones more relevant for a longer period of time, something that has already resulted in a series of lawsuits.

The comments shed light on Apple's series of lawsuits against HTC, Samsung and others over Android.

State regulators argued the insurers should use the file the same way for both annuities and life insurance in a series of lawsuits in 2012.

In addition to a series of lawsuits against the company, the U.S. FDA has publicly condemned Bayer for improperly marketing its product.

A state appeals panel recently rejected an arbitrator's $ 3 million sanction against oil tycoon Jack Grynberg in a decade - long dispute with BP and Statoil, ruling that the arbitrator exceeded his authority in sanctioning Mr. Grynberg for filing a series of lawsuits in bad faith.

A Boston company that helps inventors and small companies enforce their patents filed a series of lawsuits this week against e-discovery company kCura, developer of the Relativity search and review platform, and several of kCura's partners, alleging violation of a patent for concept - based visual presentation of search results.

As part of the estimated US$ 45 million buyout, Luminant settled a series of lawsuits with Environmental Defense and the Natural Resources Defense Council and agreed to cancel 8 of its planned 11 new Texas coal - fired power plants as well as several new coal - fired plants in Pennsylvania and Virginia, back federal legislation to create a cap - and - trade system regulating CO2 emissions, and double spending on energy efficiency.

Reporters Michael Sainato and Chelsea Skojec discuss a series of lawsuits against a Smithfield Foods subsidiary that allege that the stench and pollutants from open hog waste pools have been detrimental to their health and wellbeing.

As part of a $ 45 billion buyout by a group of private equity firms, TXU — now named Luminant — settled a series of lawsuits with Environmental Defense and the Natural Resources Defense Council.

The political climate was more favorable in Massachusetts, but private development of an offshore wind energy project called Cape Wind was stymied for years by a series of lawsuits by the Koch - funded Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound.

Andy Warhol faced a series of lawsuits from photographers whose work he appropriated and silk - screened.

During the year that Success and FES have struggled to land upon a successful clash with the city, Success has been hit with a series of lawsuits and negative press coverage.

The Incite Agency, founded by former White House press secretary Robert Gibbs and former Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt, will lead a national public relations drive to support a series of lawsuits aimed at challenging tenure, seniority and other job protections that teachers unions have defended ferociously.

He's referring to former top White House aides Robert Gibbs and Ben LaBolt, who have signed on to battle teachers unions in a series of lawsuits across the country, aligning themselves with Republican operatives who no longer worry the Obama whiz kids and their army of small donors will wipe them off the map.

According to one of the plaintiffs» attorneys, «This is going to be the beginning of a series of these lawsuits that could fix many of the problems in education systems nationwide.

Last August, the American Civil Liberties Union won the latest in a series of lawsuits against single - sex public schools in a district where, it argued, children were given no other choice.

We also hear from plenty of his friends about several behind - the - scenes events that led him to, and kept him in, Buddhist practice: the souring of his relationship with his manager, Brad Grey, his participation in a series of lawsuits, some health scares, and the slow - motion car - crash that was his film, What Planet Are You From?

In the first conviction in a series of lawsuits against Ma since he left office in 2016, Taiwan's High Court overturned a lower court's judgment of not guilty, saying that he violated a communication and surveillance act.

Sean Ryan [email protected] Glen and Louann Hocking could have avoided a flooded house and a series of lawsuits if they had just grabbed a shovel and dug a trench, said engineer Lawrence Schmit.

«With 4 teams having reached a settlement, I am hopeful that today's decision will encourage the Buffalo Bills to do right by their cheerleaders and put an end to the series of lawsuits that have further brought the NFL's respect for women into question.»

About a decade ago, he filed a series of lawsuits on behalf of the ASA and certain bat manufacturers against specific «bat doctors.»

In March, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said the federal government would support a series of lawsuits filed by states against drug manufacturers.

First came a series of lawsuits against the Breitmans, their company, and the Tezos Foundation, which was set up to promote and foster the use of the Tezos blockchain.

It has been rocked by a series of lawsuits in recent months.

In 2011, efforts by American Airlines Group Inc. to elude the distribution firms by providing its own schedule and fare data directly to larger online travel agencies triggered a series of lawsuits over access to such data.

Not exact matches

The company has suffered through a series of mishaps and scandals that included claims of sexual harassment, multiple lawsuits, and serious fights with regulators.

But JPMorgan has nevertheless been named in a series of class - action lawsuits targeting the industry, and is the subject, alongside other banks and merchants, of a Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) probe.

If that wasn't bad enough, its flamboyant founder and CEO, Montreal native Dov Charney, was facing a series of sexual harassment lawsuits.

The U.S. lawsuit is the latest in a series of clashes between the conglomerate and franchisee association members over the last year

But the revelation this week that Mr. Thiel was covertly backing Mr. Bollea's case as well as others has raised a series of new questions about the First Amendment as well as about the role of big money in the court system — specifically the emerging field of litigation finance, in which third parties like hedge funds and investment firms pay for other people's lawsuits.

While Neiderman has said that the company believes the lawsuit will be settled in their favor, the lawsuit and the revealed struggles of Silent Circle could possibly mean the end of the Blackphone series.

The lawsuit highlights an ongoing series of troublesome allegations surrounding Hitt, whom we featured last week after a series of social media messages from Hitt's account to a private citizen offers cash in exchange for driving voters to the polls last November.

Some think Benchmark's lawsuit as sensational but neccessary, given the stranglehold that Kalanick has tried to retain on Uber, applauding the venture capital firm for not sitting silently as a series of scandals cascaded.

And Max Mosley, the former head of Formula One who successfully brought a series of suits against News of the World for publishing pictures of him involved in an orgy, later funded a number of lawsuits against the same tabloid by people who said its journalists had hacked their phones.

The flurry of complaints and lawsuits have come on the heels of President Donald J. Trump's decision to impose a graduated series of tariffs on imported solar modules and cells, starting at 30 % this year and gradually being reduced each year of the next four years.

She will inherit a series of legal issues the ride - hail behemoth is continuing to grapple with: For instance, Uber is facing fresh lawsuits over its data breach earlier this year and dealt with a number of probes from the U.S. Department of Justice last year.

Cohen used a pair of court filings late Wednesday to end the lawsuits he filed in January, which claimed the dossier contained a series of false assertions about him.

Yahoo has been ordered by a federal judge to face much of a lawsuit in the United States claiming that the personal information of all 3 billion users was compromised in a series of data breaches.

The extraordinary lawsuit from Benchmark Capital against Travis Kalanick, the former CEO of Uber, its most valuable portfolio company, boils down to a series of ugly claims that Benchmark said shows Kalanick's «gross mismanagement.»

In his lengthy piece, Stetzer offers a forensic examination of Patterson's record detailing his intolerance of criticism along with a series indiscretions, including crude public comments about a 16 - year - old girl, scheming against the appointment of David Platt as new president of SBC's International Mission Board and his connection with Paul Pressler, who is now facing a lawsuit for sexual abuse allegations.

* Defamation lawsuit moves to South Dakota state court * Beef Products says ABC reports hurt reputation, sales * ABC News plans to seek dismissal of $ 1.2 billion lawsuit By Jonathan Stempel June 12 (Reuters)- A South Dakota meat processor that sued ABC News over a series of reports that called its signature product «pink slime» has won the right to move its $ 1.2 billion defamation and product disparagement lawsuit back to the state court where it began.

(Reuters)- ABC News has failed to persuade a South Dakota state judge to dismiss a $ 1.2 billion defamation lawsuit by a meat processor complaining about a series of reports that referred to its signature product as «pink slime.»

June 12 (Reuters)- A South Dakota meat processor that sued ABC News over a series of reports that called its signature product «pink slime» has won the right to move its $ 1.2 billion defamation and product disparagement lawsuit back to the state court where it began.

* Defamation lawsuit moves to South Dakota state court * Beef Products says ABC reports hurt reputation, sales * ABC News plans to seek dismissal of $ 1.2 billion lawsuit By Jonathan Stempel June 12 (Reuters)- A South Dakota meat processor that sued ABC News over a series of reports that called its signature product «pink slime» has won the right to move its $ 1.2 billion defamation and product disparagement lawsuit back to the state court where it...

A Rochester - based law firm has filed a lawsuit against Wegmans, claiming the grocery store chain has made a series of fair credit violations.

The lawsuit led to a blistering series of tweets through 2013 and 2014 from Trump, who had yet to declare his intentions to run for president, though had publicly mulled a campaign.

AG Eric Schneiderman said a decision by the embattled medical provider for Nassau's jail not to bid to keep its contract is «a positive step forward» for taxpayers as his office moves ahead with its recent lawsuit against the company after a series of inmate deaths.