Sentences with phrase «taking cases against»

Consider the fees lost as a deterrent of future patent trolls (or rather their dumb lawyers taking cases against twitter on contingency fee).
Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood take their case against mandated contraception to the Supreme Court today.
Rimrock will take its case against the Department of Motor Vehicles to the Montana Supreme Court.
You should therefore seek advice as soon as possible once you have been dismissed as otherwise a potential claim may be out of time and you would be prevented from taking a case against your former employer.
The Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission (SHRC) has announced their intention to take their case against Bill Whatcott, a Christian fighting the encroachment of homosexualism, to the Supreme Court of Canada.
The original trial judge said that that previous case, in which the Crown took a case against Wallace Duncan Smith, meant «that the Crown Court had jurisdiction to try the appellants for their conduct because a substantial measure of the activities constituting the crime took place in England,» according to the Court of Appeal.

Not exact matches

As Lindzon writes, «Jason has taken a few weeks away from running Mahalo into the ground to write «The Case Against Apple - in Five Parts.»
If you are taking out the loan to invest in a growth opportunity, you need to calculate the best - and worst - case scenarios for that investment and compare that against the true cost of the loan.
He also wanted to know whether the department was pursuing a criminal case against Flynn and expressed concern that taking action against Flynn could «interfere with the FBI investigation,» she said.
He also wanted to know if the Department of Justice was pursuing a criminal case against Flynn, and expressed concern that firing Flynn could «interfere with the FBI taking action against» him.
CNBC's Leslie Picker takes a look at the background of Makan Delrahim, the man leading the government's antitrust case against the AT&T - Time Warner merger.
In the aforementioned op - ed for The Wall Street Journal, published one month before Trump's on - the - spot acceptance to meet with Kim Jong Un, Bolton made a case for taking pre-emptive strikes against the North.
And in any case, the U.K. Information Commissioner says it can take action against individual directors even of a company that's been declared insolvent, Collins added.
Taking place in a California federal court, the case pits Apple against the U.S. government over control of the iPhone, with terrorism and privacy as the backdrop.
«In the case, you take action against us because we are successful at what we do, you open a Pandora's box of headaches because effectively you have to change everything,» Clark said.
HiQ took LinkedIn to court, and the case is currently mired in the appeals process after a U.S. district court judge in the Northern District of California granted a preliminary injunction against LinkedIn.
Taken together, the two controversies make a strong case against smart televisions — or those that connect to the internet for various features — where the downsides are increasingly outweighing the upsides.
Plaintiff Ellen Pao appeared calm and composed as she took the witness stand for the first time in the case against Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
The time it has taken investors and traders to wrap their heads around Trump's industry tariffs and the pyrrhic victory of two solar companies in a case against cheap Chinese imports has seen stocks rally in a big way, and then fall just as hard.
A hearing in NAFA's case is scheduled for Aug. 25; the hearing in the case brought by insurer Market Synergy against DOL was set to take place on Aug. 24, but it has been pushed back to Sept. 21.
And while alternative takes have made larger cases against Facebook's core business model, the emphasis has largely been on users making up their minds about how to deal with the company on an individual level.
Anyway, what the article takes an awful long time getting around to — after twice saying the question they pose isn't so outlandish or premature and that the recent volatility shows how jittery people are AND pointing out that the tax plan and increased spending «boxed» the economy into a corner against the chance for stimulus in case we have a recession — is this: It's going to be hard on people.
According to law, unless the creditors file a case in the court, they are not allowed to take action against people who have gone bankrupt.
In my personal opinion, the emphasis upon taking out insurance against downside risks lies in conflict with the shift to data dependency given long and variable lags of monetary policy impacts on the broader economy which could have counselled front - loading insurance cuts rather than scattering them (if delivering any more at all) in which case precious little insurance has been taken out.
Federal prosecutors are weighing whether to bring criminal charges against members of the WikiLeaks organization, taking a second look at a 2010 leak of diplomatic cables and military documents and investigating whether the group bears criminal responsibility for the more recent revelation of sensitive CIA cyber-tools, according to people familiar with the case.
Take the IRS's recent legal case against Coinbase, one of the largest cryptocurrency companies in the world.
CFTC Chairman J. Christopher Giancarlo has made a point of taking an aggressive stance against fraud and manipulation in virtual currency spot markets, with the agency filing a number of enforcement actions similar to the fraud case against Patrick K. McDonnell.
Rick provides his take on the Fed's most recent rate hike and makes the case against an overly rigid view of price change.
The track record of those policies, once allowed everywhere by FDR's court, has after all proved poor - to - mixed, and even in the exceptional «success story» cases, the record is at least questionable when posed against the best counterfactual scenarios of how the market would have taken care of the problem had we let it.
Wesolowski's case provides a high - profile chance for the Pope, who has been accused by some victims» groups of downplaying the sexual abuse scandal, to take concrete action against one of the Vatican's own.
Nothing in that teaching precludes, and much in that teaching seems to invite, the hope that everyone» past, present, and future» will be saved, even as we are painfully aware that that may not be the case, and even as we guard against the sin of presumption, which is to take for granted that it will be the case with us.
I concluded at the time of the riots that of all the things the government now needed to do, it was the married family which most urgently needed to be rebuilt: I was and remain as certain of that as anything I have ever written, and I have been saying it repeatedly for over 20 years: I was saying it, for instance, when I was attacking (in The Mail and also The Telegraph), as it went through the Commons, the parliamentary bill which became that disastrous piece of (Tory) legislation called the Children Act 1989, which abolished parental rights (substituting for them the much weaker «parental responsibility»), which encouraged parents not to spend too much time with their children, which even, preposterously, gave children the right to take legal action against theirparents for attempting to discipline them, which made it «unlawful for a parent or carer to smack their child, except where this amounts to «reasonable punishment»;» and which specified that «Whether a «smack» amounts to reasonable punishment will depend on the circumstances of each case taking into consideration factors like the age of the child and the nature of the smack.»
In April 2014, John Dayal, a leading human - rights activist in India and one of our travel companions, testified before the U.S. Congress that 153 cases of violence against Christians took place in the twelve months before the BJP swept parliament.
Insurance companies are well aware of the phenomenon in which people who take out insurance against, say, burglary, are known (on average if not in every case) to modify their behaviour so that the risk of being burgled increases.
I recently realized that while I often take to the blog to speak out against patriarchy in the Church, I've never taken the time to lay out a thoughtful case for egalitarianism.
Theologians who have quite properly protested against the notion that God was such that he needed to be made friendly and available to his creatures by reason of some event (in this case the death of Christ) which opened up for him this possibility, have failed to see that in this inadequate and often misleading way of speaking, there was an insight of which they should have taken due account.
In The Case Against Perfection, Michael Sandel writes, in (despite himself) a kind of Rawlsian spirit, that «if our genetic endowments are gifts, rather than accomplishments for which we can take credit, it is a mistake and a conceit to assume that we are entitled to the full measure of the bounty they reap in a market economy.»
These considerations may be taken separately or they may be combined to make an apparently quite powerful cumulative case against the rationality of belief in God.
You can go to the Freedom From Religion Foundation website and take a bible quiz, a church state quiz, see what's going on in the court cases against the religious.
One of the strongest arguments in recent years for abolishing the death penalty has arisen, not from the moral prohibition against the taking of life, but from the fact that with rare exceptions those who are executed are people who lack the means to secure good legal assistance, or lack the educational background to make full use of such assistance, or lack the social status which brings the case to public attention.11
With turning the other cheek, my take (again rightly or wrongly) is in the context of Roman occupation and it being an act of active resistance, using laws that exist against in this case a Roman that would slap a Jew in the face.
The case against Ashers was taken by Mr Lee with support from Northern Ireland's Equality Commission.
The Christian owners of a bakery found to have discriminated against a gay rights activist take their case to the Supreme Court on Tuesday.
If a beach town has five fudge shops, I'll visit all five, pressing my nose against the glass cases while taking inner notes.
IMF does not take on borderline cases and internally, the litigation funder is referring to the claims of deceptive and misleading conduct against Treasury Wine Estates as «egregious».
The security guy took me to the Jefferson County police station, and although no charges were filed against me, I was quickly transported to the county courthouse and made to sit in a holding cell while the judge finished up that day's traffic cases.
Take the case of the Tottenham supporter who fell foul of his team's miserable recent home record against Manchester United.
You have to give yourself an out in case Faksa doesn't take that leap because with what you're proposing, if he doesn't take that leap, this team is in big trouble from the standpoint of making up ground against the elites in the Central / West right now and may even take a step backward from where they are at right now.
If you get the chance to take revenge against people who have irritated you, think of the worst - case scenario if you're found out.
However, this game which see's Aston Villa take on Reading is definitely a case of last but not least, as arguably two of the league's stronger sides of late will be shaping up against each other.
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