Sentences with phrase «wave of lawsuits»

Banks have not yet finished with the wave of lawsuits stemming from the financial crisis.

Banks will work to take any remnants of the human touch out of the process, since this will provide cover from a wave of lawsuits.

Payouts from past settlements fund patent trolls» next wave of lawsuits.

Moore pioneered the public - private litigation strategy as Mississippi AG in 1994 when he sued the tobacco industry, setting in motion a wave of lawsuits that culminated in the $ 260 billion tobacco settlement four years later.

Rochester partner and co-leader of the firm's labor and employment practice Eric Paley is quoted in this piece about a new wave of lawsuits targeting the retirement plans of several colleges and universities.

On the flip (and ugly) side, spurned affections are at the root of a recent wave of lawsuits and legislation related to the phenomenon with the charming name «revenge porn.»

According to an article in National Underwriter, reinsurance giant Swiss RE expects that a wave of lawsuits relating to climate change is going to hit in the next few years and that it will be similar to the mountain of lawsuits companies faced due to asbestos.

Force causes concussions; Concussions are strongly correlated with degenerative brain diseases like CTE; CTE and other associated long - term neurological disasters are the chief reason youth participation in football has been down or flat recently, and also the thing driving the current wave of lawsuits and legal drama surrounding the NFL and other leagues.

NEW YORK (Reuters)- When two former interns at the New Yorker and W Magazine sued parent company Conde Nast Publications on Thursday, legal experts said it could be the first in a wave of lawsuits challenging companies who pay little or nothing for student labor.

After waves of lawsuits alleging the failure to warn about the dangers of the sport and that helmets were ineffective in preventing concussions, the number of companies making them dropped from more than a dozen in the late 1970s to only a couple of major names by the early 1990s.

Intellectual Ventures, the giant patent - holding firm, is seeking to re-arm with a new $ 3 billion fund that could extend a wave of lawsuit misery that has swamped the tech, retail and financial industries.

Not exact matches

While some are clamoring for an Intern Bill of Rights, and other interns are filing lawsuits, which prompted Reuters to declare that a wave of intern lawsuits was just beginning, I'm saying, why should we prevent students from exchanging 20 hours a week of their time for some experience and a reference?

The lawsuit is part of a new wave of 401 (k) suits against smaller plans.

As a chorus of prominent Fox News women have gone public defending Roger Ailes against the wave of sexual - harassment allegations sparked by former Fox News host Gretchen Carlson's lawsuit, the network's biggest star, Megyn Kelly, has been conspicuously silent.

The lawsuit and suspensions are the latest in a wave of sexual harassment scandals that have led to firings and resignations of powerful men across a number of industries after a New York Times investigation into accusations of sexual harassment and abuse against the Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein.

A wave of nausea washed over Sheri J. Storm when she opened the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on a February morning a decade ago and saw the headline: «Malpractice lawsuit: Plaintiff tells horror of memories.

The lawsuit filed Monday is the latest in a wave of legal cases filed by children against states and the federal government that accuse government of depriving them of the fundamental right to a stable climate.

Building on a wave of reports and lawsuits charging that the L.A. Unified School District is not appropriately directing funding to high - need students, a new database offers a first - of - its - kind look at the budget for every district school.

Left - wing groups like the American Civil Liberties Union, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, the Southern Poverty Law Center, the teachers» unions, and the Florida School Boards Association have filed a bevy of lawsuits in recent years to stem the school - choice tidal wave.

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Ann Carlson, an environmental law professor at the University of California Los Angeles, said that similar lawsuits faltered a decade ago because the evidence linking heat waves and flooding back to burning fossil fuels wasn't as robust as it is today.

-LSB-...] to be hopeful, Colorado is joining the wave of climate lawsuits against big oil companies, and the libertarian Niskanen Center is supporting the suit, the top five wind producing states in the US are all red states, and a nascent practice called -LSB-...]

THR, Esq. is reporting on a wave of new lawsuits targeting users of the file - sharing service BitTorrent, accusing them of illegally downloading copyrighted movies.

BBC's Newsbeat reports that it is the biggest drive yet against gamers who use peer - to - peer networks such as BitTorrent and Limewire, and that the lawsuits are only the first wave of thousands more to be filed by the end of the year.

An alleged link between the drug and osteonecrosis of the jaw (ONJ), a condition in which the jawbone begins to die, led to a wave of products liability lawsuits around the country.

The lawsuit is the latest development in a wave of backlash against Facebook over ways its platform was used to influence the 2016 election.

Despite public criticism over the lawsuit, the school has apparently doubled down on the patent strategy, filing a wave of new lawsuits last week against more than 25 tech companies, including Microsoft (s msft), Dell, BlackBerry (s rim), Motorola (s goog) and Nokia (s nok).

The lawsuit is the latest development in a wave of backlash against the social media company over ways in which its platform was used to influence the 2016 election.

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