Honest services fraud evolved from a 1941 Supreme Court decision in which a public official received bribes in exchange for favorable action on a city contract.
If there are indeed such links, then the foreign ownership of PTNNT is raised to an unacceptable 51%, and Newmont may face a legal action for violating its contract.
More important, the costs of the transactions that did take place would be exorbitant, since you'd have to do enormous work to investigate each deal and you'd have to rely on the threat of legal action to enforce every contract.
Carnival's contract prohibits a class action suit, but Hickey said he's not sure whether it is legally enforceable.
The Audit Office said the executive and Department of Social Development (DSD) were committed to action plans to improve governance and contract management.
Overnight action saw the December Comex gold futures contract push through short-term resistance from the 20-day moving average, which is a minor near term bullish technical signal.
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"We're extremely discouraged and disappointed that the FAA is taking this action, " said Dickerson, of the contract tower association.
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No charges were brought and the case was dropped, but Mr Chaudry took action against the city council for breach of contract.
His latest and most farreaching fraud is the Amended Complaint filed in this action, which is based upon a doctored contract and fabricated evidence.
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On the plaintiff side, class-action lawyers have an incentive to hire inexpensive contract attorneys, work them for thousands of hours, and present those hours to the court at a much higher price as justification for their fees, which a judge must approve.
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"Pursuing legal options is not a decision we take lightly, especially because of the longstanding partnerships we have established in Kuwait over the past decade, but PIC is in breach of contract, and we must take action to protect the interests of our company and our shareholders, " Dow Chemical Chief Executive Andrew Liveris said.
The club said he will be out of action for at least six months, and his contract will not be extended.
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Halliburton was contracted by BP to cement the well and had argued its contract protected the energy company from legal action resulting from its work.
Justice Minister Helen Grant said that while there had been "significant" issues at the start of the contract last year, "swift and robust action" had led to "dramatic improvements".
If an act of nature, a specific supplier or some other uncontrollable act can make it impossible for you to fulfill a contract (and thus open yourself up to legal action) then you should be putting to ink that you are not liable for incomplete work due to these factors.
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When contacted by the BBC, Nokia confirmed it had taken action "with the aim of ending RIM's breach of contract", adding it would also continue to pursue a separate case against RIM in Germany involving antenna, email and navigation technologies.
Ms Shoesmith's latest legal action challenges the legality of this latest "attempt" to terminate her contract of employment.
Foster had been out of action since November's defeat by Morecambe as a clause in his contract would have automatically generated a new deal with two further appearances.
If it chooses the latter course of action, AOL Time Warner must have entered into at least one such contract at the time it enters the advanced IM business, followed by two more contracts with rivals 180 days later.
There has to be a contract for a contract to include a clause preventing the consumer from joining a class action.
Intraday action on Friday saw buyers emerge at the lows, which propelled the gold contract to settle in the mid portion of the daily range.
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Under the mitigation of damages doctrine, a party that suffers damages as a result of a breach of contract has a legal duty to mitigate those damages by taking reasonable action, wherever practicable, to avoid additional injury and minimize its loss.
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In a proposed class action lawsuit filed in San Francisco federal court on Friday, a California Instagram user leveled breach of contract and other claims against the company.
Class-action activist Ted Frank has filed an objection to the proposed fee, however, saying the markups on contract attorneys are excessive given experience levels of many of the lawyers involved.
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Beneath the haze of recrimination, it also seems clear that, as the inspectorate concluded, the contract did not contain adequate provision for resolving disagreements over performance standards, or for taking remedial action.
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