Sentences with phrase «than the plaintiff in»

Having regard to the fact that the respondent is older than Ms. Sharma, that he has no realistic possibility of obtaining similar employment and that he had a longer tenure of service than Ms. Sharma, but considerably less than the plaintiff in Di Tomaso v. Crown Metal Manufacturing Packaging Canada LP, 2010 O.J. No. 4414, we conclude that an appropriate notice period is 18 months.

The plaintiff was off work for a considerably longer period than the plaintiff in Wepryk v. Juraschka, 2012 BCSC 974.

In my view, the plaintiff here suffers headaches more frequently at present than the plaintiff in Sandhu v. Gabri, 2014 BCSC 2283.

The nature of his job doing heavy physical work places him in a more precarious position at work than the plaintiff in Rutledge v. Jimmie, 2014 BCSC 41.

[52] My sense is that the plaintiff in the case at bar has suffered a greater degree of pain, disability, emotional suffering, impairment of family and social relationships, and loss of lifestyle than the plaintiffs in the Malcolm and L.A.M. cases.

Not exact matches

«We will continue working on behalf of our courageous plaintiffs to show that Arizona can do better than this disgraceful law,» she said in a statement.

Rich Palma, president of Golden Pear Funding, said plaintiffs who take out advances receive better protection than borrowers may in other lending situations, because their own lawyers typically review, and often sign, advance agreements.

In the company blog, Telsa referred to Organ as having «a long track record of extorting money for meritless claims» and said that the company «would rather spend more on a trial and clear its name than settle with the plaintiff.»

Disney shareholders lost their case but the final ruling set a new bar for directors when approving these kinds of exit packages: «If a director acts with conscious disregard — in other words, a looking away — rather than a deliberate intent to violate his duties, he can still be held liable for acting in bad faith,» plaintiffs» attorney Steven G. Schullman told the New York Times back in 2006.

The attorney representing the plaintiffs in this case, Bruce Afran, estimates that Princeton's tax bill should be around $ 40 million, which is 264 % more than what it currently pays.

Unlike in those other casee, the plaintiffs did receive some compensation, but at less than $ 1 per hour, far far less than minimum wage.

In Metzler v. Corinthian Colleges, Inc., the plaintiff alleged that the defendant, an operator of vocational colleges, had manipulated student enrollment data, and that plaintiff suffered losses when the company issued a press release showing lower earnings than the false data had suggested.

In In re Oracle Corp., the Ninth Circuit similarly held that plaintiffs can not prove loss causation «by showing that the market reacted to the purported «impact» of the alleged fraud... rather than to the fraudulent acts themselves.»

«Because the proclamation is unlawful as applied to plaintiffs, and inflicts grave and irreversible harms on them, plaintiffs seek a declaration that the proclamation violates the Trade Act and the NAFTA Implementation Act and an injunction prohibiting its enforcements against plaintiffs,» they wrote in their more than 600 - page complaint.

Graber may know a lot more about data breaches than the average lawyer — he is a key lawyer for plaintiffs in the massive data breach at Anthem Inc. that «compromised the personal identification and health information of more than 80 million customers of the health care company,» according to the law firm.

Three female plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed Wednesday «allege a conspiracy spanning more than two decades to conceal sexual abuse committed by church members» throughout the 1980s and 1990s, according to the Associated Press.

In 2002, a plaintiff's attorney might get to George quicker than an angel.

He adds, «Where we might have hoped for a level of calm analysis and civic, even civil, discussion of the case in all of its humanity and complexity, we have been given little more than banner headlines, orchestrated press conferences, serial fascination with priestly deviancy, and plaintiff strategy.»

Judge Claudia Wilken, who presided over the O'Bannon case, issued an order declaring that the NCAA and some of the conferences will have to defend the rules against players receiving more than tuition, room and board (and now a cost - of - attendance stipend) in open court in a case brought by a plaintiff group that includes former Clemson cornerback Martin Jenkins and former Wisconsin forward Nigel Hayes.

The plaintiffs, meanwhile, are hoping to prove they have enough evidence to proceed to trial, scheduled to begin in less than six weeks.

«After accepting more than $ 100,000 in campaign contributions from plaintiff's attorneys he employs in class action suits — which can be hugely lucrative to those firms — Mr. DiNapoli is using official state business to solicit campaign contributions.

«Bronx people are generally poorer than in other parts of the city, so they might be more sympathetic to poor plaintiffs.»

And that «if payments have been made to the 2nd and 3rd Defendants under agreements other the two * dated 26th April 2006 *, which were terminated, issues relating to those payments would have to be determined in a forum other than this Court (Supreme Court) and in a different action, since they do not come within the issue of constitutional interpretation raised by the Plaintiff's writ».

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.

Several of the named plaintiffs have levels of PFOA in their bodies significantly higher than the national average.

Plaintiffs in the case challenged the number of NHIS list presented by the EC, saying it should be more than the presented number.

However, Salk President Elizabeth Blackburn and other administrators argue vehemently that the 2016 report, which shows senior women pulling in more than twice as much National Institutes of Health funding as their tenured male colleagues, is inaccurate and represents only the views of its authors, who were led by plaintiff Beverly Emerson.

The Match lawsuit was filed earlier this month in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles by plaintiff Matthew Evans, who contends he went out with a woman he met through the site who turned out to be nothing more than «date bait» working for the company.

The plaintiffs in that case maintain that eHarmony's decision to establish a separate site for gays rather than integrate its flagship site, eHarmony.com, amounts to an unlawful «separate but equal» policy and the continued marginalization of gays, lesbians and bisexuals.

Extracts from the lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles, said: «Rather than merely publishing a news story reporting that Plaintiff's screenplay may have been circulating in Hollywood without his permission, Gawker Media crossed the journalistic line by promoting itself to the public as the first source to read the entire Screenplay illegally.»

At first glance it appears ironic that plaintiffs have enjoyed a higher rate of success in adequacy cases than in those grounded in equity.

Judge Robert B. Freedman agreed with the plaintiffs in Valenzuela v. O'Connell that students who have failed the test — especially English - language learners — have not had a fair chance to learn the material because they were more likely than others to attend overcrowded schools and have unqualified teachers.

In his study of court decisions on teacher terminations for competency, Zirkel found that «defendant districts prevailed over plaintiff teachers by better than a 3 - to - 1 ratio.»

Beginning in the late 1960s, and accelerating unabated through to the present, plaintiffs have filed more than 125 court cases questioning the constitutionality of school district and school spending levels.

How many total dollars these suits have contributed to the rapid increase in education spending is unknown, but we do know that, since 1989, adequacy lawsuits have been launched in more than 30 states, and a vast majority of them have resulted in a court award to plaintiffs mandating more money for schools.

Courts have found for the plaintiffs in more than half of the cases on the grounds that schools are not «adequately» funded (see Figure 1).

The suit — filed by more than 40 plaintiffs on May 12 in Pensacola, Fla. — challenges several actions taken over the past year by the local school board and the district's superintendent, Leonard Hall.

From the Hartford Courant: Frustrated plaintiffs in the Sheff v. O'Neill lawsuit accepted a new agreement Friday to continue desegregation efforts in Hartford, asking a judge to approve a one - year extension that does little more than maintain the status quo during the state's fiscal troubles.

The preponderance of evidence, including research presented by the plaintiffs in this case and noted by the court, shows that special population funding levels are dramatically lower than what is needed to provide an excellent education to many Texas students.

All told, the case and bargaining have cost the district more than $ 418,000 in legal bills to date, district officials said, not including $ 550,000 in attorney's fees paid to the plaintiffs.

But the Vergara plaintiffs» team was much more interested in the spectacular than the substantive.

It appears from the motions filed in late January by the state in the Connecticut Coalition of Justice In Education Funding v. Rell lawsuit that Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, a former prosecutor, would prefer to fight schoolchildren in the courtroom than to sit down with plaintiffs and realistically consider the state's optionin late January by the state in the Connecticut Coalition of Justice In Education Funding v. Rell lawsuit that Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, a former prosecutor, would prefer to fight schoolchildren in the courtroom than to sit down with plaintiffs and realistically consider the state's optionin the Connecticut Coalition of Justice In Education Funding v. Rell lawsuit that Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, a former prosecutor, would prefer to fight schoolchildren in the courtroom than to sit down with plaintiffs and realistically consider the state's optionIn Education Funding v. Rell lawsuit that Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, a former prosecutor, would prefer to fight schoolchildren in the courtroom than to sit down with plaintiffs and realistically consider the state's optionin the courtroom than to sit down with plaintiffs and realistically consider the state's options.

Veteran teacher Rich Nixon, one of the six plaintiffs in the suit, said the drumbeat against due process was started by lawmakers who are more determined to silence teacher voices than improve public education.

It alleges Simon & Schuster engaged in a «pattern and practice of paying Plaintiff and others similarly situated royalty payments for the distribution of licenses for electronic books, or «e-books,» at a rate for book «sales,» or some other lower rate than that required for «license» transactions.

The self - publishing division was the subject of a lawsuit in the US, which was settled out of court last August, during which the business faced accusations from plaintiff authors of seeking to make money from authors, rather than for authors.

It seems that the key point in certification being denied was that the plaintiffs» lawyers failed to demonstrate that the alleged actions (essentially shady selling of marketing services) were a company - wide / directed practice, rather than isolated cases.

The lead attorney representing the plaintiffs argued that this rule does not apply in this case because «the exception to this policy is where the officer personally committed a tort: a wrongful act or an infringement of a right (other than under contract) leading to civil legal liability.»

The first bone of contention the plaintiffs have is that the company offered the «microscopically low - yielding» Vanguard Prime Money Market Fund, rather than a stable value fund that would have provided better returns while preserving capital and liquidity without any greater increase in risk compared to money market investments.

Using the Hueler Index as a benchmark, the plaintiffs claim that by providing participants the Vanguard Prime Money Market Fund instead of a stable value fund, the plan sponsor caused the plan, participants and retirees to lose more than $ 41 million in retirement savings from February 2010 through June 30, 2017.

Plaintiff will satisfy this debt owed to Defendant by paying this consent judgment in monthly installments of $ 100.00 starting no later than January 15, 2013, for 48 months.