Promote litigation to punish tobacco companies on the theory that they compel innocent people to smoke.
Mr Lamb won the right to join the litigation to continue the fight started by Mr Nicklinson.
In many instances, state AGs essentially relinquish authority over the course of litigation to the private lawyers hired.
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Well-meaning activists are dusting off their old strategies of research, regulation, and litigation to use against Big Food.
Nobody sued, but many experts expect litigation to erupt eventually over such cyberswindles.
It was forced by litigation to share summary data from its trials and even then did not promote access.
Unlike some other drug companies, Lilly did not attempt to introduce last-minute litigation to keep generic Prozac from the market.
By using litigation to achieve goals that properly belong to legislation, the suit would short-circuit democratic debate on public issues.
Prop. 37 would not only create a large new bureaucracy but also encourages bounty-hunter, or shakedown, litigation to enforce the rules.
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It has even provided details of its litigation to analysts who cover Gevo, whose shares have lost half their value this year.
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As that suit makes its way through the New York state court system, the civil liberties watchdog is taking its litigation to the next level.
"I thought this law was a way to use litigation to right wrongs and, if successful, to get a percentage, " says an unabashed Phillips, now 62.
They found outside investors including an online poker magnate and a London firm that bankrolls corporate litigation to pump millions of dollars into the case.
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He has made his reputation not by showboating on Geraldo but by reducing complex litigation to understandable stories, which he tells in his flat Midwestern tone.
The Court of course rejected this on the basis that the very purpose of a Receiver is to represent the suckers in litigation to recover their money.
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Merck emerged as a victor in the seventh product-liability lawsuit related to its withdrawn painkiller Vioxx, bringing its total tally of wins in the litigation to four.
Consumers would really like all this futile litigation to stop.
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And despite scandals that sent two of the leading practitioners of class-action litigation to jail--William Lerach and Melvin Weiss--the top firms seemed to maintain their holds on the business.
But as time goes on, the board gets more worried about the uncertainty of completing the merger and the cost to shareholders if it allows the litigation to drag on.
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To help ensure that mine companies no longer use a strategy of endless litigation to evade their responsibilities, we need to tackle the backlog of cases at the Mine Safety and Health Review Commission.
The lawsuit represents an innovative form of offensive warfare against the movie industry, which like the Recording Industry Association of America has turned to litigation to try and stem the wave of illegal file-sharing of copyright materials.
The conservative majority on the court, led by Chief Justice John Roberts has shown a strong preference for upholding the Federal Arbitration Act, which encourages businesses to use arbitration instead of courtroom litigation to settle their differences.
The response of the NFL was to file a charge with National Labor Relations Board arguing that the NFLPA has not negotiated with the league in good faith and claim the union wants to evade its collective bargaining obligations so it can use antitrust litigation to enjoin a lawful lockout.
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The city has refused to pay its CalPERS bill while a judge considers its bankruptcy filing and the pension fund has mounted a vigorous counterattack that is nearly identical to the one the bondholders pressed up north: CalPERS wants the court to reject the bankruptcy filing and shift to litigation to more favorable state court.
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The buyer also needs to evaluate all corporate aspects, from labor and environmental to pending litigation, to taxes and public records.
Merrill Lynch, acquired the same weekend that Lehman Brothers spiraled into bankruptcy in 2008, has been a strong earnings driver in recent quarters, while the earlier deal for Countrywide Financial has been an anchor on the company due to a host of litigation related to questionable mortgage lending and securitization.
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Those statements would include disclosures of litigation exposure on a global basis, reserves and sources of reserves to cover existing and highly probably litigation, and governance policy to describe funding mechanisms of member firms to cover litigation against member firms in any part of the world not covered by sufficient insurance coverage or capital.
In fact, the court repeatedly rebuked Infoflows' many attempts to involve him in the litigation due to his lack of knowledge about the work with Infoflows.
King did agree to toss several individual claims involved in the multi-state litigation (to see which ones, scroll down to page 49 of the opinion.) But clearly the defendant banks were hoping their preemption argument would see all the cases thrown out of court for good.
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The company said it expects adjusted EBITDA ex-litigation costs to be positive in the quarter.
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