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.
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.
Attorneys for the
plaintiffs today announced their filing of a collective action lawsuit against Darden Restaurants, the world's largest full - service restaurant group, alleging servers were paid less
than the minimum wage and were not compensated for time they were required to
work off the clock.
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.
«This is the first time any case for a banana worker has come before a U.S. court,» Duane Miller, one of the attorneys representing more
than 30 Nicaraguan
plaintiffs who
worked on plantations from 1964 to 1990, tells BusinessWeek.According to one upcoming lawsuit that was filed in 2004, Dole Fresh Fruit Co. and Standard Fruit Co., now part of Dole, were not only negligent, but that they fraudulently concealed information about DBCP's effects.
However, in this case the defense team was betting on the 50 % rule, which
works like this: if the defense team could convince the jury that the
plaintiff (my client, the injured motorcyclist) is more
than 50 % at fault for the crash, the defendant (the negligent minivan driver) would not have to pay for non-economic damages, which include pain and suffering, loss of enjoyment of life, scarring and disfigurement, and other long - term problems as a result of the crash.
Doctors permanently restricted the
plaintiff from lifting more
than 20 pounds, which means he can no longer
work in his previous profession.
The court ruled that the
plaintiff waited too long to get a lien, but they claimed that the defendant was very demanding and it required more
work than anticipated.
In addition, try and talk to attorneys who
work on both sides — you might decide you want to do defense
work rather
than being a
plaintiff's attorney.
The
plaintiff was off
work for a considerably longer period
than the
plaintiff in Wepryk v. Juraschka, 2012 BCSC 974.
Apologies that merely expressed sympathy
worked only inconsistently because many
plaintiffs took them to be insincere, which sometimes caused more indignation on the
plaintiff's part, rather
than less.
Finally, the sophisticated diagnostic tools turned on this improved data set allowed the
Plaintiffs to lay their hands on crucial documents months earlier
than their former
work process would have allowed.
The
plaintiff, rather
than continue to
work through his notice period and, at its conclusion, commenced a claim for wrongful dismissal, immediately resigned from his employment.
In particular he calculated that over his remaining
working life the
Plaintiff would make $ 269,662 less in income in golf management with promotion after ten years
than he would have as a journeyman plumber.
[95] The
plaintiff is also less able to perform her household
work than she was and has received assistance from her children.
But even in a case where they are sometimes
plaintiffs, like custody, an attorney can actually cause a * decrease * in filings by explaining to a parent exactly what they need to do to regain custody of their children and
work with them to accomplish those goals, rather
than the parent filing loads of duplicate motions to modify custody, as they often do when pro se.
For
plaintiff firms, external capital would provide the resources they need to
work during the time they are not getting paid, and enable the firms to mitigate the risk by sharing it with investors, rather
than obliging the partners to take it all on.
Based on findings that the «severe or pervasive» standard «unduly narrows the reach of the law,» the NYCHRL requires a
plaintiff claiming a hostile
work environment to prove «that she has been treated less well
than other employees because of her gender.»
rather
than working with
Plaintiffs from the outset to reach agreement on appropriate and comprehensive search terms and methods, [Defendant] undertook the task in secret.»
[146] In retrospect, the defendants may rue the day when they unleashed the
plaintiff on their suppliers rather
than spending the time to
work on her designs with her and collect standard samples for each design element and samples for those items where upgrades would be offered to her.
We are far larger
than any other firm that does a significant amount of
plaintiffs»
work, a fact that makes us uniquely suited to go head - to - head against the biggest corporations in the world.
Fixing legitimate warranty items is one thing, but many developers feel extorted by the demands of the contingent
plaintiff lawyers who cash in on large settlements with insurance companies (sometimes earning fees larger
than the actual repair
work).