Sentences with phrase «than damages sought»

In general, American case law prevents the admission of evidence that a plaintiff or victim in a personal injury lawsuit received compensation from a source other than damages sought by the defendant.

Not exact matches

Daniels» new suit, which seeks more than $ 75,000 in damages, was filed in the same federal courthouse where she appeared two weeks ago for a hearing involving records seized from Trump's longtime personal lawyer, Michael Cohen.

The tribe, which says it is prepared to seek damages against the companies in state court, notes in its suit that from 2003 to 2014, more than 350 deaths related to opioids occurred in the Cherokee Nation.

Its hands full with restoring power, Puerto Rico's beleaguered electric utility will not need to defend a contractor's lawsuit seeking damages of more than $ 4.5 million, according to the judge in the island's financial restructuring case.

Apple said in new court filings Tuesday that it was seeking more than $ 2.5 billion in damages from Samsung.

Even now that the affair is public knowledge, Trump and his legal team are seeking $ 20 million or more in damages from Daniels, out of retribution more than anything else.

US President Donald Trump is seeking more than $ U20 million ($ 26 million) in damages from a porn actress who is trying to void a confidentiality agreement that requires her to keep quiet about her alleged affair with the US president.

His legal team added that he has run up more than # 1 million in lawyers» bills and lost significant business by having to delay his creative projects, and is seeking «very substantial» damages.

Especially in the latter case but also in the former, however, it's not typical for whole neighborhoods to be targeted in fraudulent cases, as that is (a) a lot riskier than doing something to your own property both in terms of getting caught in the first place as well as the penalties you will incur, (b) makes you at most part of something apparently bigger and denies the fraudster of the unique victimhood they seek and (c) in the case of insurance fraud, involves damaging things you can't collect on.

February 10 — Former Liverpool owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett are seeking more than $ 1 billion (# 622 million) in damages in the London courts for being forced to sell the club for # 300 million ($ 482 million) to NESV, the owners of the Boston Red Sox baseball team.

Millennium Park Joint Venture LLC is seeking a preliminary injunction against the city or more than $ 15 million in damages, according to its counterclaim and its lawyer.

Rather than letting yourself bake in the sun as your kids watch the damage unfold over the years, lather up, don sun - safe clothes, and seek out shade when it's needed.

In the Gabryszak case, Bartolomei's clients sought an astounding total of more than $ 2.6 billion in damages from the former Assemblyman, his Chief of Staff, the State Assembly and others.

So, in the current indictments, there is nothing regarding «collusion» between the Trump campaign and Russia, or any other foreign interest, other than a foreign policy advisor seeking but not getting dirt on a political opponent from a foreign country, which isn't necessarily illegal but is politically quite damaging.

The government stated that there are 1,390 cases on civil litigations (legal disputes between two or more parties that seek money damages or specific performance rather than criminal sanctions) in Magistrate, High Courts, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court of Nigeria.

An assistant professor of finance and economics at Columbia Business School since 2008 has filed a sexual harassment / discrimination lawsuit against the school, seeking more than $ 20 million in damages and more time to apply for tenure.

According to a statement on the village website, if approved, the village can not sue the companies for their role in contaminating three wells with PFOA, but the village can still seek damages and pursue other claims associated with contamination in alternate water sources, and if chemicals other than PFOA are found.

Lawyers for the state and a coalition of state employee unions have negotiated a settlement of the unions» long - running federal lawsuit seeking damages on behalf of more than 2,500 unionized workers who were laid off in 2003 by then - Gov.

The suit seeks more than $ 50,000 in general damages and more than $ 50,000 in economic damages as well as an unspecified amount for medical and funeral expenses, emotional distress and other damages.

Starr had sought more than $ 40 billion of damages for shareholders.

If convicted, the defendants are looking at up to 15 - year prison terms in addition to a civil suit seeking more than $ 30 million in damages.

The report doesn't mention it, but we found this trailer online for Alexander's proposed Creed movie that was uploaded in April 2012, more than a year before MGM announced that Coogler would direct the spin - off film, the costs of which Alexander might tally in his suit seeking «compensatory damages, punitive damages, pre-judgment interest, attorneys» fees and costs.»

More than a dozen federal class action lawsuits have been filed seeking damages from the Educational Testing Services (ETS) for errors in grading the PRAXIS Principles of Learning and Teaching Grade 7 - 12 exam required for entry - level classroom certification in many states.

The plaintiffs seek more than $ 20 million for fraud, breach of the franchise agreement, and negligence as well as punitive damages and attorney's fees.

The court performed something like a cost - benefit analysis to answer the Medlens» perplexity that they could seek sentimental damages if a taxidermied Avery, rather than a living, panting Avery, had been negligently destroyed.

Granted, AGW looms larger than most of our work, and the extreme scenarios seem very damaging, so there's some justification for seeking a consensus.

In other words,rent - seeking Australian government hydrologists broke the Great Barrier Reef with their claims of greater competency than they actually possess, don't know how to fix the damage they've done and are still doing, and are defensively throwing up an obscuring cloud of ink like a spineless bottom - dweller in a rapidly dwindling ocean habitat that no longer provides them cover or sustenance.

He should also try to rally the nation and globe in support of an international Manhattan Project, in which the best scientific minds would devise carbon - sequestration technologies that could clean the air of the heating elements we've put there — rather than simply seeking to limit the damage.

He has demanded that the tweet be unpublished and retracted and seeks «more than $ 75,000» in damages.

The amendment complaint, which seeks more than $ 50 million in damages, added retaliation and defamation claims to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia action, but drops a Family and Medical Leave Act charge, «as we are focusing on Bertram's core allegations of gender discrimination and retaliation, which still includes discrimination based on her caregiver responsibilities,» Andrew Melzer, one of her lawyers, told the ABA Journal.

If you or a loved one has suffered from SUI (stress urinary incontinence) or POP (pelvic organ prolapse) and sought help from your doctor, only to find that you ended up still in pain and discomfort and suffering as much if not more than before you were treated and surgery was performed, then it's important for you to determine whether or not you have a transvaginal mesh claim for damages and if so, whether or not you and your family should proceed with a transvaginal mesh lawsuit.

Our lawyer has more than 25 years of legal experience to put to work in representing your interests and seeking financial damages on your behalf.

The office is seeking damages of more than $ 6.3 million.

With a little help from his Illinois injury attorney, he is seeking more than $ 50,000 in damages.

Such SME disputes as described above, with damages sought of less than # 50,000, are very likely to be caught in this unfortunate position.

Thus, the NAACP will not underwrite ordinary damages actions, criminal actions in which the defendant raises no question of possible racial discrimination, or suits in which the plaintiff seeks separate but equal, rather than fully desegregated, public school facilities.

Under this doctrine, a victim's action is barred if his contributory fault is more than 50 percent of the proximate cause of the injury or damage for which recovery is sought.

If your injury was caused by someone other than your employer or a co-employee, you may also have a right to seek damages in a personal injury claim in court.

Defended a market - leading insurer in a Massachusetts direct action in which the injured plaintiffs sought more than $ 40 million in punitive damages against our client (primary insurer on business auto policy) for its alleged failure to promptly settle a catastrophic personal injury claim.

A minority shareholder brought suit challenging numerous transactions and seeking more than $ 2,000,000 in damages.

Successfully represented a group of property and casualty insurers in a coverage and bad faith lawsuit in Houston, Texas, in which the insureds sought more than $ 100 million for alleged business interruption losses, costs associated with defense of toxic tort suits, Superfund project costs, and bad faith damages, all arising from the insureds» operation of a California landfill deemed to have polluted a key source of drinking water for the Los Angeles area.

However, when you suffer injury in the course of your employment as a result of the acts of parties other than your employer or a co-worker, you may have a right to seek damages separate and apart from your workers» comp claim.

The new productions suggested the plaintiff's damages were $ 120,000 higher than the $ 3.5 million sought in the claim.

As a result, Trillium is seeking $ 2.25 billion in damages and more than $ 5 million in out - of - pocket expenses that it spent in preparing its first wind farm off Prince Edward County, Ont.

The Philadelphia Enquirer reports that the family is seeking more than $ 200,000 in damages from the City of Philadelphia, alleging that a city employee took payoffs from teens so that they could swim after hours without a lifeguard.

The former agent sought more than $ 20 million in damages, asserting claims for, among other things, unfair trade practices, fraud, conversion, misappropriation, and breach of contract.

In my view, such a reading of s. 95 is not harmonious with s. 98 of the Act, as amended, which seeks to award «damages for the income loss suffered after the accident and before the first day of trial of any action brought in relation to it, [of] not more than the net income loss that the person suffered in that period as a result of the accident».

Accordingly, if your injuries were caused, in whole or in part, by someone other than your employer or a co-worker, you are not limited by the provisions of the workers» compensation laws, and can file a personal injury lawsuit to seek damages for any losses.

Depending on how much compensation you are seeking, you can proceed to either small claims court or to civil court for damages larger than your state's limit.

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