Sentences with phrase «taken to court by»

But our board fears being taken to court by anyone the board calls to task.

Employers may seek to update their HR policy manual — or are being taken to court by a recently terminated employee.

The scientists were taken to court by the Swiss appliance industry and were convicted in 1993 of interfering with commerce.

You can be taken to court by your creditors.

Similar to the case with Consumer Financial Resources, a company named Student Loan Processing.US was taken to court by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).

Grahame - Smith, who unleashed the zombie mashup on the world with the surprise 2009 hit Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, and went on to write the bestseller Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, is being taken to court by Hachette for breach of contract.

Though not filmed as a direct comic book adaptation, «Hardware» became a comic book movie thanks to a unique lawsuit that saw director Richard Stanley taken to court by comic book creators Steve MacManus and Kevin O'Neill, who suggested the film was based off a story they did in «Judge Dredd Annual» 1981, titled «SHOK!

Sports News of Tuesday, 8 May 2018 Source: GHANAsoccernet.com Sarfo is taken to court by prison guards in Malmo, Sweden A heartbreaking picture of Ghana's talented footballer Kingsley Sarfo has emerged with the midfielder in handcuffs and shackles like a terrorist as he arrived in a Swedish court from prison for the start of his rape trial.

That aspect remains shadowy until Abia state was taken to court by a consultant.

The far - right part is currently being taken to court by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) over it's membership policy, which states that only «indigenous Caucasian» people are allowed to join.

The high court will be asked to brand Andrew Lansley's NHS reforms illegal today when the government is taken to court by Unison.

We refer to the company as Wyeth (or more fully, John Wyeth and Brother Ltd) as that is the company that was taken to court by Trading Standards in 2003 for breaking the law with an illegal SMA formula advertising campaign.

The companies involved were taken to court by the competition authorities and fined over Euros 9 million.

The Arsenal midfielder was taken to court by his father Mustafa after the German World Cup winner sacked him as managing director of his marketing company Ozil Marketing GmbH last year.

Santos and Botafogo were both taken to court by players in recent months and lost, while Gremio, Fluminense, and Corinthians are all also reportedly struggling to pay image rights.

You have probably seen them plastered across the tabloids and we dare not place them on site for fear of being taken to court by the tabloids.

HJ Heinz Australia has been taken to court by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), which alleges the food manufacturer engaged in misleading representations on the packs of its Little Kids Shredz products.

The supermarket giant is being taken to court by a group of mostly female shop assistants who have claimed male warehouse workers are earning more for doing a similar job.

When Tesla collapses, I hope analysts like Morgan Stanley's Andrew Jonas are taken to court by class - action hungry lawyers.

The Perth - based distributor of the Thermomix kitchen appliances in Australia is being taken to court by the consumer watchdog for allegedly misleading customers when the products were found to be dangerously faulty.

This means that Townsend had to take to the court by herself and play 2 - on - 1 doubles tennis.

Not exact matches

A mandatory arbitration clause in her 11 - year - old employment contract prevented her from taking the matter to court, but her legal team circumvented the matter by suing Ailes personally.

The Supreme Court has appointed a receiver to take charge of the Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation in the lead - up to a general meeting set for next month to settle a long - running dispute with a breakaway organisation backed by Fortescue Metals Group.

Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in Catalonia Sunday to call for unity, voicing their opposition to last week's non-binding and referendum on independence on October 1 that was declared illegal by the Spanish government and constitutional court.

Courts take a dim view of businesses that go for years without ever objecting to another business going by the same name, then suddenly sue for trademark infringement.

Serena Williams may be taking a break from the court to focus on family, but by no means is she slowing down when it comes to expanding her brand beyond the realm of tennis.

The lawsuit filed in Santa Clara Superior Court alleged that Anderson violated his contract by attempting to recruit at least a dozen Tesla engineers, taking confidential and proprietary information, and doctoring and destroying evidence to «cover his tracks — all for the benefit of a competing venture he launched while still a Tesla employee.»

«But there is going to need to be some major lawsuits or decisions by federal courts, appellate courts or more to decide what are acceptable practices online for a real shift to take place.

Jia was placed on an official blacklist of debt defaulters in early December, a move taken by Chinese courts to put pressure on people and entities to repay debts.

The law, known as Senate Bill 4, is slated to take effect Sept. 1, but has been challenged in court by rights organizations and localities that say the law infringes on local governments» constitutional rights, and will sow fear through immigrant communities by dissuading people from reporting crimes or testifying as witnesses out of fear they will be deported.

Meanwhile, other big digital newcomers to the media scene, including BuzzFeed and Business Insider, have also been slow to take up the public interest banner long carried by the likes of the New York Times and the Press - Enterprise (a small California paper that, as Liptak explained, took two free speech cases all the way to the Supreme Court in the 1980s).

Lucas took the designer to court for copyright infringement, but the court ruled the replicas were not covered by copyright law because they are not works of art.

«Because a lot of times, by the time you go to court, it takes so long to go to court, to get the due process procedures.

By July 2014, Carter switched from taking Prozac to Celexa for her anxiety and, according to a court psychiatrist, also shifted in her communications with Roy.

A letter obtained by the Canadian Press from a lawyer representing the Great White North Franchise Association to Tim Hortons parent company Restaurant Brands Inc. said if RBI refuses to meet with franchisees by Friday to discuss «deficient IT practices» and «future IT protocols» they will take the matter to court.

Their presidential election — which opposed Norbert Hofer of the Austrian Freedom Party to Alexander van der Bellen from the Greens and was only very narrowly won by van der Bellen — was declared invalid by the Austrian Constitutional Court and will have to take place a second time.

There's a lot of chatter right now about Instagram, an iPhone app for adding artsy filters to photos and sharing them across various social - media networks, which has taken the early - adopter crowd by storm and courted heavy investor interest in the mobile photo - sharing niche.

Instead of taking place with a court and a judge, arbitration is a private process with an arbitrator and is generally preferred by companies as it can require individuals to each pursue restitution individually instead of banding together as a group.

In their request filed Wednesday in probate court in Canton, Massachusetts, Dauman and Abrams said a rapid trial schedule is needed to resolve the dispute because the trust's assets are being threatened by Shari Redstone's «invalid attempt» to take control of its majority stakes in Viacom and CBS.

Following a controversial New York Times editorial by former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens Tuesday calling for the repeal of the Second Amendment, we asked readers to respond, offering not only the news of Stevens» stance, but also a Chicago Tribune editorial taking the other side of the issue.

But, let's take a moment to review how and why the consolidation of the banking industry, fostered by court decisions and the Reagan and Clinton administrations, has played out.

Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page, in his last week on the job, is taking the government to court in a bid to have Ottawa release information about the impacts on federal jobs and services from $ 5.2 billion in cuts announced in last year's budget.Photo by Sean Kilpatrick / The Canadian Press / Files

In 2015, the court refused to take up the case, a ruling NRF said was «disappointing because it leaves merchants and their customers paying fare more than intended by Congress.»

The Canadian government must also take concrete steps to ensure that people who are harmed by Canadian companies overseas have the opportunity to seek justice in Canada through a mining ombudsperson and access to Canadian courts.

The couple encountered trouble in August 2009, when Mrs. Healey had to take a medical leave from work and their income dropped by 25 percent, court papers state.

Following a controversial New York Times editorial by former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens Tuesday calling for the repeal of the Second Amendment, we asked readers to respond, offering not only the news of Stevens» stance, but also a Chicago Tribune editorial taking the other side of...

You might even be sued by a debt collector and face a court order to garnish part of your wages — this means that money will be taken directly from your paycheck in order to satisfy your debt.

A federal court on Thursday upheld the Labor Department's Fiduciary rule, in defiance of a Trump executive order signed on Feb. 3, which sought rescinding the rule enacted by his predecessor The executive order, though not taking effect immediately, sought the Labor Department to review options...

The constitutionality of massive U.S. high - tech spying programs seems likely to be taken up by the U.S. Supreme Court before long, unless Congress steps in to clarify surveillance laws that appear hopelessly out of date.

While the points made by these gentlemen are both valid and critically important, they fail to take note of four other dangerous subsidies: (1) the market perception that the Washington and Wall Street revolving door has rendered these firms immune from prosecution — even for repeated, illegal cartel behavior; (2) the ability to spend billions buying back their own stock, effectively propping up their own share price and bad behavior; (3) self - regulation with compromised bodies creating the market perception and reality of a competitive edge; and (4) Congress and the Supreme Court tolerating Wall Street running its own private justice system (mandatory arbitration) where corrupt acts are kept hidden from public view until they blow up into catastrophic events to the economy.