Before the Supreme Court ruling, the entertainment industry had taken other legal action to stop file-swappers.
The Theory posits that the Alaska Trustee should immediately file an action in Alaska against the Creditor for a Declaratory Judgment.
In it, a unanimous Supreme Court held that the SEC has five years from when an alleged fraud begins to file an action seeking penalties, not from when the SEC uncovers the fraud.
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The Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA) of 2005 expanded federal jurisdiction over class-action lawsuits primarily to reduce so-called "forum shopping, " where plaintiffs would look for the locale friendliest to class-action cases and then file in courts there.
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Your attorney will file the divorce action and the ATRO according to the regulations in your state.
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Weaver did not testify in Sandusky's trial, but did file a civil action against the former coach.
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His attorney, Ronald Marron, said he plans to file a class action charging Merrill Lynch (nyse: MER - news - people ) with similar wrongdoing.
In a sign he is edging closer to a presidential run in 2000, Jesse Jackson is seriously considering setting up a presidential exploratory committee this fall and will file a political action committee statement in early August, Jackson confidantes tell CNN.
The Coleman team has said it will also file a class-action lawsuit on behalf of the absentee voters whose ballots were rejected.
That's because class action litigation depends on the economic incentives for lawyers to file the cases.
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But before they could file the suit her parents withdrew consent for the action, according to historian J Mills Thornton of the University of Michigan.
Under first-to-file, an inventor who does not take prompt action to protect his or her invention faces a higher risk that a later inventor will end up holding the associated U.S. patent rights.
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But it has not yet decided what action to take against the four Verizon customers it accuses of illegal file-sharing.
In such an event, the California Creditor could then file a petition in Alaska federal court to remove the action from the Alaska state court.
Last week, in a dramatic police action spanning at least two continents, authorities arrested the founder of a file-sharing site known as Megaupload.com for criminal copyright infringement.
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It said a file was submitted to the Crown Prosecution Service, but no further action was taken "due to insufficient evidence".
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He also co-sponsored a bill designed to cut down on malpractice litigation in 2005, and voted for the Class Action Fairness Act, a law that made it harder for trial lawyers to file some of their most lucrative cases.
The force passed a file to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) which advised no further action should be taken.
In the UK, the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) took action to the courts, obtaining a court order to force internet service providers to block access to file-sharing site The Pirate Bay.
The financial disclosure forms House members and senators were already required to file only come out once a year, making it tough to track any relationship between legislative action and a stock trade.
With this action, a requirement to notify you if new credit is being requested in your name is added to your credit file (at no cost to you).
Class-action bans do that by preventing large numbers of people from suing, and making it harder for those who can file on an individual basis to recover for their injuries.
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