His optimistic call on future legal threats is based on new limits for plaintiffs.
Lawyers for plaintiffs in such cases typically are paid fees plus a percentage of any damages or settlement.
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The legislature must take steps to protect small businesses from abusive litigation while ensuring judicial fairness for plaintiffs.
They give judges an opportunity to inject their normative views, and they create more opportunities for plaintiffs to fight.
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The first changed the traditional notions of legal standing for plaintiffs to sue.
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Elihu Inselbuch, a lawyer for plaintiffs in both of these cases and another asbestos-related bankruptcy, Raytech Corp, is blunt.
Juries also have returned some small verdicts for plaintiffs, increasing pressure to settle.
Requiring better proof of actual damages, and making it harder for plaintiffs to get preliminary injunctions that force settlements.
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These contracts are outgrowths of the structured settlements available for plaintiffs in lawsuits.
In fact, the importance of certification twice led Congress to make it more difficult for plaintiffs to form a class.
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Lobbyists for plaintiffs and defendants have put generations of kids through college on fees paid to purse and oppose federal asbestos liability reform.
It's time for plaintiffs' lawyers to start looking around for the "next big thing" with which to line their pockets from big business.
Indeed, there is no risk for plaintiffs at all, since even if they lose, they do not have to pay the defendants' legal fees.
Because parallel claims can now be consolidated into one case at the federal level, there is an argument that the cases should be less expensive for plaintiffs.
It is not unusual for plaintiffs to get higher amounts in asbestos cases simply because they live in an area with more generous jury awards.
That made it possible for plaintiffs to sue employers not just for being singled out and victimised because of their sex, but simply for being offended by other employees' behaviour.
And yet the rulings also made it easier for plaintiffs to sue by putting the burden of proof squarely on employers, and failing to say what is a reasonable anti-harassment policy.
Whether used by consumers, employees, investors, or people injured by toxic torts, class actions serve as a potent weapon for plaintiffs as they pool together their claims and resources against a company.
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Mehrban's Web site trolls for plaintiffs, informing them that they simply have to bring him examples of businesses that expose "at least one person" to some 800 chemicals deemed dangerous by the law.
News Corp. didn't affirm or deny these claims during settlement negotiations with claimants, according to a lawyer for plaintiffs, but in December the company agreed to calculate compensation under the assumption that such actions occurred.
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The tribunal has heard submissions from lawyers for the plaintiffs and for the Belgian State.
The plaintiffs don't plan to seek reimbursement for losses incurred in complying with the ban, a spokesman for the plaintiffs said.
As it happens, today, Dan Feinberg, attorney for the plaintiffs, filed a brief in support of their motion for class certification.
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Weiss, you recall, went to jail for paying plaintiffs in securities class actions that reaped millions in fees for his firm and dubious benefits for shareholders of the companies he sued.
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Lawyers for the plaintiffs' group, the Plaintiffs' Steering Committee, said the settlement "does the greatest amount of good for the greatest number of people".
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Attorneys for the plaintiffs accuse government lawyers of using just about every delaying and stalling tactic available.
The problem for the plaintiffs was they never established that the bat was to blame.
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Felten is also an expert for the plaintiffs in the 2004 lawsuit against New Jersey.
Attorneys for the plaintiffs plan to release a formal statement about the win on Tuesday.
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