Otherwise, expect a lot of law suits to be filed in the weeks ahead.
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That eDiscovery company was working for a law firm in support of a large company involved in Katrina law suits.
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It faced a slew of public interest law suits and underwent frequent design changes both before and after construction began.
For the past 15 years Mr McLaren has peppered west Texas with spurious law suits, sometimes bankrupting the defendants in the process.
Law suits and angry letters are flying left and right, as big money is at stake and the big players are jockeying for position.
The legality of that EPA rule, and another that imposes new restrictions on light-duty truck emissions, is currently being challenged through a number of law suits.
He said Republicans would seek to replace it with a measure that allows people to buy insurance across state lines, limits bogus medical law suits and restores patient choice.
Additionally, you do not have the number of frivolous law suits in patent litigation that you have in other civil litigation because it is so expensive to litigate patent infringement.
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Recently, however, following an attempt by Congress to discourage unhappy shareholders from bringing law suits in federal courts, there has been a sharp rise in such cases at the state level.
For many years, as Microsoft grew, Bill Gates eschewed public relations and politics as tawdry activities unbecoming of a pure entrepreneur only to find himself up to his eyeballs in government law suits.
It would be unfair to draw too many broad conclusions from the unfinished story of Madonna's own philanthropic involvement in Malawi - a tale complete with law suits, sackings, an angry sister of the president, allegations of theft, and several thousand girls benefiting from an education they might otherwise never have received.
Under California law, the suits have to be filed before the first anniversary of Bakley's death, which is Saturday.
The tort bar's ship would also come in, including limits on arbitration to settle disputes and watering down the 1995 law limiting strike suits.
Yesterday, the U. S. Supreme Court recognized that Congress meant what it said, holding that the Vaccine Act expressly preempts all state-law products liability suits challenging the design of widely administered childhood vaccines, which the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has already determined to be safe and effective.
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"The defendant doesn't think the law applies to him, and the court has no reason to believe he will not violate the law again when it suits him, " she said.
Halliburton, for example, argues it is immune to all suits under a law passed after the Exxon Valdez disaster--the Oil Pollution Act (OPA).
Yet when asked about pursuing the trial bar for similar behavior, his office says it has no jurisdiction to go after law firms in class action suits.
Partners are filing age-discrimination suits against their own law firms for demoting them to make room for younger attorneys.
Among other provisions the law insulates electronic middlemen from libel suits.
Recently, however, the specter of costly state tort litigation against vaccine manufacturers threatened to undermine this important federal law intended to shield manufacturers from such suits.
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The tree trunks, exposed banks and other hazards whizzing past represent a cornucopia of potential tort suits under U.S. law, yet somehow the Swiss manage to operate these runs without being sued into oblivion.
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This approach is already being pursued by big-city mayors against gun manufacturers and distributors with the help of some of the same law firms which represented the states in their suits against the tobacco companies.
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The asbestos companies also argued that the appeals court mistakenly applied Texas law to the dealings between the Northern clients and their lawyers, when Pennsylvania law, which has tougher standards for such suits, should have been applied.
The suits arise out of a 1975 federal law declaring that every child is entitled to a "free, appropriate education, " regardless of ability.
The SEC brings civil suits against individuals and corporations who violate securities law.
The Kansas Supreme Court recently held that doctors can be sued under that state's consumer protection law, as a kind of end run around traditional malpractice suits.
The court explained that because corporate liability is not a discernible norm of customary international law, courts should not interpret the ATS as having authorized suits against corporations.
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The court explained that because corporate liability is not a discernible norm of customary international law, the ATS should not be interpreted as having authorized suits against corporations.
Mr. Ice founded his firm in 2008 to focus on consumer bankruptcy, after a career at big law firms defending companies against plane-crash and SUV-rollover suits.
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