The high costs of patent defense only count the direct expenses of lawyers and settlements.
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Association President Sherman suggests you can expect many more suits and settlements involving college students.
When these lawsuits do strike, the legal fees are enormous, but the penalties and settlements are even larger.
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This cruise may be more inconvenience than disaster, but once passengers are home safely, legal action and settlements seem likely.
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Billions of dollars have already been spent on legal fees and settlements.
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The issue now for most Israelis is not whether to withdraw and evacuate settlements, but how far to withdraw, and which settlements.
But transport remains expensive and settlements themselves are often sunk in mud.
But now investors are getting the feeling that Bank of America will need to set aside more to deal with mortgage writedowns and settlements.
The majority of the biosphere reserve is dominated by agriculture and forestry lands, with villages and settlements consisting of small farms and individual homes.
Not since a military government quartered the Amazon basin with roads, dams and settlements in the 1970s has Brazil seen such a row over the rainforest.
Their journeys and settlements stretch from South East Asia and Melanesia in the West, to Hawaii in the north, Rapanui or Easter Island in the East and Aotearoa New Zealand in the South.
BofA knows it still has a lot to prove to investors and regulators as it climbs out of the ugly mess created by its merger with Countrywide which has resulted in billions in losses, fines and settlements for the bank.
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After his stint as prime minister from 1996 to 1999, he served in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, then Likud Party leader, but resigned in 2005, saying he disagreed with Sharon's plan to remove Israeli troops and settlements from Gaza.
The lawsuits are ostensibly on behalf of real plaintiffs, and judges treat them that way, but these cases more frequently involve passive plaintiffs who are figureheads for the lawyers who bring suit and negotiate settlements and their own fees.
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Experts say that there was a high correlation in between magnet jurisdictions and coupon settlements, and that a reduction in one would likely lead to a decrease in the other.
Scientists analyzed calls and texts involving almost 15 million Kenyan mobile phone subscribers, nearly 12, 000 cell towers, and 692 different settlements and correlated that data with a map of malaria cases.
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Just as with the UBS and Barclays settlements, regulators have produced incriminating e-mail and instant message correspondence among traders and managers with regard to setting interbank interest rates.
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The settlements are an issue because the territories are important to Israel and the settlements strengthen Israel's attachment to those territories.
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Once again, companies in the volatile technology and telecommunications industry accounted for about one-third of the settlements, and two-thirds of settlements involved Nasdaq-listed stocks.
Mr. Corzine respects the efforts of both Trustees in this regard and is pleased that the settlements and the proposed plan of reorganization make it probable that customers will receive full recovery of their funds.
Unfortunately, Argentina has racked up lawsuits by individuals and institutions, and many settlements remain outstanding.
On average, these one-time power couples were married for 12.5 years, and the settlements reflect that.
Then, around 1200, temperatures began to drop, and Norse settlements were abandoned by about 1350.
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So has the economic penalty of onerous excise taxes and legal settlements, which have made smoking a costly vice.
The case statistics available to date indicate two thirds full settlements and 12-14% partial settlements for an 80% total.
The outposts at Popham and Cuttyhunk were quickly abandoned, as were most of the early French and Spanish settlements.
They underwent a rapid change in the 1950s and 60s when people moved off the land and into settlements.
There are increasing reports that firms are finding it hard to recruit skilled labour, and pay settlements are creeping up.
In the U.S., where over 3, 000 Internet auction postings were taken down in July, Microsoft recently announced five lawsuits and two settlements.
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