Sentences with phrase «suits filed this year»

This past year, 158 lawsuits were filed against collection agencies and credit bureaus for violations of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, up from a scant 40 suits filed the year before.

It has sued dozens of companies, including many new suits filed this year.

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Four former students filed a suit against Trump University last year in a federal court in California, seeking class - action status.

The plaintiffs, who first filed suit six years ago, are seeking $ 36 million in damages.

The highest profile case is a suit filed by Jack Montague, a former varsity men's basketball captain expelled during his senior - year second semester for «penetration without consent,» according to Yale.

The following year, Monaco filed suit against the State of Mississippi in the U.S. Supreme Court, but the high court refused to hear Monaco's claim on the grounds that the «Court has no jurisdiction of a suit brought by a foreign state against a state of the Union without her consent.»

Unilever, for example, filed a suit against Hampton Creek last year claiming false advertising and unfair competition because Hampton Creek's Just Mayo doesn't contain eggs — a requirement under the current standard of identity for mayonnaise.

In 2015, New York - based competitor Bounce Exchange filed a suit against Yieldify in a New York federal court, accusing it of copying its code and infringing its patents, in a case that first came to light earlier this year in a report from The Financial Times.

Navient said the CFPB filed suit because the company rejected an ultimatum from the agency to settle a near three - year investigation into it by Friday, when President - elect Donald Trump will be inaugurated.

In court documents filed with the Northern California District Court on Thursday, Uber argued that the class - action part of the suit should be dropped because the 160,000 drivers, «have little or nothing in common, other than their use of the Uber App in California at some point over the past six years.»

That same year it filed that patent suit, EMC also sued a former sales executive who joined Pure, charging he had taken confidential company information with him.

The game in question took place on May 8, 2004, one day before Mother's Day of that year, and Rava filed the suit in 2006.

«Happy Birthday,» which reportedly generates $ 2 million per year for the Warner / Chappell Music, was interjected into public domain in the 20s, according to new evidence filed in a two - year - old suit.

(Out of the more than 6,000 patent suits filed in United States federal courts last year nearly 25 percent were filed in the Eastern District of Texas, according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation).

The case started nearly four years ago, when iLife filed a $ 144 million patent infringement suit against the gaming company.

The suit, filed last month, claims that Steinberg was one of Eaze's first investors back in 2014, but that he sought to shop shares in the privately held company last year.

The couple filed their suit after being convicted in a Chinese court two years ago for illegally purchasing personal information about Chinese citizens, but argue that they were set up by Glaxo.

The Justice Department announced Friday that it had reached a settlement with Anheuser - Busch InBev and Grupo Modelo to resolve the anti-trust suit it filed earlier this year in response to their proposed merger.

And earlier this year, a court approved a $ 57 million settlement from Boeing Co. in a 401 (k) suit Schlichter filed, which included $ 19 million in attorney fees and $ 1.8 million in expenses.

Last year he filed a racial discrimination suit against the Dakota, the well - known Manhattan apartment building, after its co-op board denied his request to buy an apartment next to his to accommodate Ms. Pao and their then -2-year-old daughter.

In 1906, the year of a peak that was not exceeded for ten years, President Theodore Roosevelt filed his famous suit against the country's largest company, Standard Oil.

But Grey usually wins that battle, because the media turn him into John the Baptist, a messenger crying in the wilderness, complete with rusting car, shabby suits, files in cardboard boxes and an income of $ 35,000 a year (while Fahrenkopf makes $ 800,000).

The judge's ruling opening the elections back up comes in response to a suit filed by a group of nine 17 - year - olds, who disputed the interpretation.

MARGO ADAMS files a $ 12 million palimony suit against Red Sox third baseman WADE BOGGS, claiming that Boggs had promised her a salary and expenses during a four - year affair.

Take the case of Cleveland Cavaliers forward Kemp, who is not married but who, at 28, has fathered seven children, according to Gerald Phillips, an attorney who represented him in a paternity suit filed by Charlotte Osuna, the mother of Kemp's two - year - old daughter, Dominique.

New York attorney general Eric Schneiderman filed a civil suit against the company and its founders, alleging years of harassment and intimidation.

The group filed suit against the Park District over the sale in 2009, following a referendum a year earlier in which La Grange voters approved the sale.

ORLANDO, Fla. — San Diego parents who say their 4 - year - old son suffered «severe burns» from scalding hot nacho cheese served to them during a family vacation have filed suit against Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, records show.

The mother of a 26 - year - old mentally retarded man who drowned in Olympic Pool, Arlington Heights, on Aug. 7 filed suit in Cook County Circuit Court Thursday seeking an unspecified amount of damages from the suburb «s park district and Meadows, 3250 Plum Grove Dr., Rolling Meadows, a long - term care facility where the man had been a patient.

Bloomberg News reported earlier today that the U.S. government will seek a dismissal of the suit filed by Schneiderman's office earlier this year.

Tollner said if the Child Victims Act becomes law, he will take advantage of the one - year window of opportunity to file a civil suit.

It also would create a one - year window for victims to file civil lawsuits against their alleged abusers even if the current statute of limitations on civil suits has passed.

The family of a 29 - year - old woman who fell to her death from an escalator in the Oculus has asked a judge to order the Port Authority to turn over video of the tragic accident in anticipation of filing a wrongful death suit.

Mr Tsatsu Tsikata finally filed a suit at the Court of Appeal, challenging the five - year sentencing in 2008.

As she explained, the previous law only allowed a suit to be filed within three years from the occurrence of an injury caused by exposure to a contaminant.

But since 2006, if a criminal action is commenced against a defendant for one of those worst child sexual abuse crimes, the victim has five years from the date the criminal action is ended to file a civil suit against only the abuser.

Lawyer Maurice Ampaw has filed a law suit (number GJ / 26/2016) against Asamoah Gyan for having undignified sexual relations with Sarah Kwablah, a 22 - year University student.

Attorney General Cuomo filed a civil suit in Manhattan Supreme Court yesterday alleging Espada and his family siphoned more than $ 14 million over five years out of Soundview, a clinic he founded to provide care to the people of the South Bronx.

The measure, known as Laverne's Law, extends the amount of time a suit can be filed up from 2-1/2 to 7 years from when the plaintiff has learned of a diagnosis instead of when the cause of the illness occurred.

Under legislation passed by the Senate and the Assembly on Wednesday, patients who are misdiagnosed would have two and a half years from the date they discover the error to file suit.

The Empire Center, an offshoot of the Manhattan Institute, filed suit last year when the TRS refused its Freedom of Information Law request for the data.

Dr. Diminic Ayine in February 2018 filed a suit at the Supreme Court, contending that Martin Amidu, being 66 years of age, is too old to hold public office as Special Prosecutor based on Articles 190 (1)(d), 199 (1), 199 (4), and 295 of the 1992 Constitution.

The 34 - page suit filed in State Supreme Court in Manhattan on Tuesday accused Denenberg of a «cold, calculated scheme» that included at least 374 separate acts of mail fraud over an eight - year period.

The Utica City School District settled a lawsuit over its treatment of young refugees, who, the suit filed last year by NYCLU charged, were being excluded from the city's lone high school because of their age and because they did not speak English.

Schneiderman filed the suit as part of his job as co-chairman of the Residential Mortgage - Backed Securities Working Group, which was formed last year by the Obama administration.

In addition to lifting time limits for child victims to file civil suits against their alleged abusers, and against institutions that failed to act against abuse under their roofs, the current bill would provide a one - year window during which past victims who have already exceeded the statute of limitations could go to court.

The News Agency of Nigeria, (NAN) reports that the wife had filed a suit seeking the dissolution of their 23 - year - old marriage over constant fighting and threat to life.

Requests that ought to take days to fulfill instead take months and sometimes, as was the case a year ago when Investigative Post and WGRZ filed suit, require legal action.

It also bolsters funding to some towns that had been targeted for huge cuts, notably Torrington, a named plaintiff in a suit filed by the Connecticut Education Association seeking to block the executive order cuts, would receive $ 24.68 million — $ 200,000 more than it did last year.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman last year filed suit against fantasy sports companies that offered for - pay games, pointing to the state's constitutional ban on games of chance.