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That arrest was the starting point of an eight - year legal fight, via the European Court of Human Rights, by Mr Ahmad unsuccessfully to avoid extradition to the United States on terrorism charges.

Battle for Brooklyn (Unrated) Eminent domain documentary about the seven - year legal fight led by resident David Goldstein against real estate developers determined to flatten his Prospect Heights neighborhood in order to build a stadium for the NBA's New Jersey Nets.

An eight - year legal fight over racial discrimination by New York City in a proposed Brooklyn development is expected to be settled today, after community groups and the de Blasio administration agreed on a new plan for affordable housing for the site.

Not exact matches

The filing comes almost two years after the company ousted founder Dov Charney, who is locked in a legal fight and sued American Apparel for defamation.

The CBC story rightly points out that, 20 years ago, a young Canadian woman named Gwen Jacobs fought and won a legal battle for the right to go topless — entirely topless — in public.

Over the course of his 25 - year legal career, he has tenaciously fought for the rights of consumers, concentrating his practice on consumer lending and consumer fraud class actions.

The bakery lost the legal fight a year later.

The very next season is the year we went for Suarez and failed due to an inexperienced backroom staff making offers and not fighting for them, If Liverpool lied about the release clause then we could have sued them for bullshitting about a legal document.

«It is the biggest fight of the year and the fact of the matter is that the fight is legal, lawful and will go ahead.»

For more than five years, New Jersey has been fighting to bring legal sports betting to the Garden State.

The loss of that 25 - year relationship with a sympathetic hospital has left some home - birth midwives not only fighting for the legal viability of their practice but having to justify their very existence.

After years of legal wrangling between Westchester County and the federal government over a court - ordered 2009 settlement to meet fair housing requirements, federal officials appear to have stopped fighting.

Instead, it spent millions of dollars a year in legal fees trying to fight for a cheaper option that now appears to have amounted to nothing.»

Mario Cuomo spent years fighting New York state's minimum drinking age of 19 before being able to sign legislation on Dec. 1, 1985 to raise the legal drinking age to 21, according to the release.

It also includes a fight over 15 schools that were saved last year in a similar legal battle.

Diller said he was giving up on the project last month following years of legal fighting and roughly $ 40 million of pre-construction costs.

Fahey will also be involved with pending litigation, including a year - long legal fight with COR Development over the future of Syracuse's Inner Harbor.

«As the Council begins our Executive Budget hearings on May 6th, we will continue to strongly push for critical investments that will greatly expand employment opportunities for our young people by increasing the number of year round and summer youth jobs, advocating for vital legal services and workforce development skills to support our growing immigrant population and fighting to combat food insecurity in our City,» they said.

The de Blasio administration on Monday agreed to settle a long - standing legal fight with the feds over alleged abuses at Rikers Island, agreeing to key reforms, including the installation of 7,800 surveillance cameras over the next two years.

But New York has yet to make same - sex marriage legal, a key fight this year in the Legislature.

Next year will be full of legal and political fights over climate change.

The project is finally coming to fruition after years spent fighting legal challenges.

Those two things are nowhere to be found in Ted 2, despite the oddly topical storyline centered around the concept of Ted (MacFarlane) and John (Wahlberg) fighting for the bear's civil rights when it turns out that he somehow slipped by the legal system all these years and is now suddenly deemed property in the eyes of the law, as opposed to a human being.

Navient is currently embroiled in legal fight with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau which earlier in the year filed a lawsuit contending the student loan servicer cheated borrowers out of billions of dollars by creating obstacles to paying back loans.

The good news is debtors are wising up to the legal rights they have under the law and are willing to fight against abusive, unfair, or deceptive practices debt collectors have used for years.

Brawl's beloved Project M mod, has announced a fighting game of their own, just two years after their modding project was shuttered out of fear of legal troubles with Nintendo.

For one thing, the process of repealing these rules can grind on for years because of all the legal theatrics (you can bet the coal companies will be fighting tooth - and - nail to ensure the Obama team does not succeed).

Back lane housing has been controversial in many cities; where I live in Toronto, they have been fighting about it for at least 30 years and are just getting close to making it legal.

But before we get to that ending we should recognize that the fifteen years between the December 1965 2nd Circuit decision and the 1980 settlement consisted of a long hard struggle fought along legal, political and public fronts.

Attorneys for Everpower, the developer of the wind farm, recently argued the extension is necessary because an earlier group of opponents tied the project up in a years - long legal fight.

After many years of struggling to raise this awareness, the anti-geoengineering movement has now reached a level of awakening that has brought legal experts and other essential professionals into the fight on our side.

Two - Year Court Fight Over Hemp Foods in Final Stages Hemp Industries Association Files Brief to Keep Hemp Foods Legal

By pulling those attorneys general into the fight, Exxon could trigger years of legal wrangling over disclosure of its understanding of climate risks.

The fight went all the way to Israel's Supreme Court, where the legal basis for removing the signs was provided by a 40 year old law originally intended «to place a limit on abandoning open spaces to ugliness, so that the fields and hills will not be stained as well with objects foreign to them» according to Israeli author and former legislator S. Yizhar.

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If you have been hurt in a motorcycle accident in Bergen County, Passaic County or Hudson County, it makes sense to get legal advice from a law firm that has fought for individual rights for more than 70 years.

We are proud to say that behind our doors, we have 42 years of collective legal experience, and in our time we have helped numerous clients with assorted cases, to fight for both justice and financial compensation.

The legal team at Abels & Annes, P.C. fights daily for the rights of Chicago's injured victims and their family members and we have been doing so for years.

We have more than 40 years of legal experience with a dedicated focus on fighting for full and fair compensation from accidents and injuries.

«Law societies have been at the forefront of the fight against money laundering for more than 15 years, putting in place a regime that prohibits members of the legal profession from accepting cash from clients and requires them to comply with strict know - your - client rules.

Track says LEAF has been fighting for increased funding to legal aid since at least 2002, when the province began slashing its legal services budget — ultimately providing aid to only victims of violent crime and litigants earning less than $ 25,000 per year.

From the Aug. 5 Boston Business Journal article, The lawyer hunt: In the legal industry, competition heats up for lateral hires: «The lateral hiring sprees at national firms that have colonized Boston in recent years and the growing embrace of businesslike practices and cultures have spurred a bare - knuckled fight for talent.

After four years of a hard fought legal battle involving complex medical issues, Bryan secured a $ 3.2 Million settlement in a medical malpractice case brought on behalf of our client, a 14 - year - old girl from Hillside, New Jersey.

With more than 20 years experience in the legal field, you can rest assured that the Law Offices of Charles R. Gueli not only has knowledge regarding various aspects of personal injury, but that the team will fight with you to protect your rights until the end.

For the past ten years, Bobby Saadian has put his heart and soul into changing the lives of thousands of people, who came to Wilshire Law Firm for legal representation; good people, who didn't have a voice to fight against powerful insurance companies, mega-corporations and big business.

With recognition from reputable publications such as Super Lawyers ®, Florida Trend's Florida Legal Elite ™ and Martindale - Hubbell, as well as a «Superb» (10 out of 10) rating by Avvo ®, and 15 years of experience, our founding attorney, Joseph A. «Tony» Mesa, III, has the knowledge and resources necessary to help you fight for the compensation you may be entitled to.

When you find your find yourself lost in the world of legal formalities — we know that at Mervin L. Ford P.A. Years of experience representing and litigating on our clients» behalf, you can rest assured that someone is on your side fighting to protect your interest, instead of finding yourself overwhelmed and worried about what may happen.

Our skilled legal team has years of experience fighting for the rights of injured victims of truck accidents.

The legal team at the firm has over 35 years of collective experience in fighting for fair compensation for damages in serious injury cases.

In 2015, Jeffrey E. Strauss, of counsel to Mintz & Geftic, LLC and Strauss Law Offices, LLC, who, through a relentless and lengthy hard fought legal battle, secured a $ 15 million settlement in a medical malpractice suit on behalf of an 11 - year - old girl from Irvington, New Jersey.