Its roots go back to 1998, when Ron Motley, a South Carolina lawyer and veteran of the tobacco settlements, met state attorneys-general and identified lead-based paint as a promising area for public litigation.
He sued the US Government with the help of the Public Citizen Litigation Group to obtain all the documents in the Einstein file.
He notes the heightened pleading standards since the passage of the Public Securities Litigation Reform Act and subsequent Supreme Court rulings including Tellabs vs.
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Congress passed the Public Securities Litigation Reform Act to halt the abusive practice of paying kickbacks to plaintiffs in securities cases, which sent former top plaintiff lawyers Bill Lerach and Mel Weiss to jail.
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It has filed 49 securities lawsuits over the past two years, sometimes at a rate of two or three a week, making a mockery of provisions in the Public Securities Litigation Reform Act that prohibits any entity from serving as a lead plaintiff in more than five cases in a three-year period.
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If the matter is referred to enforcement, it may be disclosed to the public in a litigation release.
Judges, much criticised during the country's 1975-77 state of emergency, have rebuilt their reputations by responding favourably to public-interest litigation.
After a decade of public hearings, litigation and lobbying, Michael Ghielmetti, a real estate developer in Oakland, California, was finally ready to build.
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Now Alan Lange of Mississippi site YallPolitics (and co-author of Kings of Tort, a book on the scandal) has posted a massive document dump of emails between the Scruggs camp and its public relations agency, as made public in later litigation ( see also).
There is no complete public list of pending litigation.
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Members of prestigious public company boards worry about litigation more and more these days.
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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.
But there is no waiver that protects against the possibility of a lawsuit and its various forms of prayed relief or the public relations nightmares and expense of related litigation.
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Although taxes of so-called fatty foots appeals to some politicians as a stealth way to raise government revenue in a struggling economy, there are some signs of pushback from a public weary of the tax-regulation-litigation cycle.
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For starters, he asked his Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell to join with AGs of 13 other states who filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with EPA on August 10, 2012, asking for any and all correspondence between EPA and a list of 80 environmental, labor union and public interest organizations that have been party to litigation since the start of the Obama administration.
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We have a tax structure encouraging debt over equity, and we have a litigation atmosphere discouraging taking risk, going public and pushing the envelope.
However, the trust has said it would be at risk of litigation if it made any of the findings public.
The bill preserves public participation but doesn't let it--or delaying litigation--run on forever.
Anti-SLAPP laws are designed to protect people from being sued over activities that are in the public interest, such as protesting a plant expansion, or possibly bringing litigation.
The incident is the subject of likely litigation so the PCT is restricted in what further it may say in public.
McGladrey is the next tier public accounting firm with the alternative practice structure and exposure to Madoff and Petters fraud litigation as well as responsibility for the Sentinel fraud.
The honorific is particularly impressive when you consider the intense public attention of the last two years on the unintended acceleration (UA) recalls and litigation, perhaps the biggest product issue that a major car company has faced since the Pinto.
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Among his decisions are rulings upholding an insurance company's waiver of a particular defense, sending litigation involving Cigna back to England and one denying an award to a whistleblower who merely disclosed public information about SmithKline Beecham, now part of GlaxoSmithKline.
By using litigation to achieve goals that properly belong to legislation, the suit would short-circuit democratic debate on public issues.
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