The federal class-action trial of a New York City Police Department's Stop-and-Frisk policy wound down today.
Last year a federal judge in San Francisco ruled there was enough evidence of discrimination to warrant a class-action trial.
The high court will not judge the merits of the sweeping claims at this stage, just whether a class-action trial can proceed.
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Companies argue that with the stakes literally in the billions of dollars, they cannot afford to take such a class action to trial and must settle with the attorneys, regardless of the merits of the case.
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PwC is still expected to go to trial in a class action claim for overtime by its California audit associates that could blow the lid off what they say about audit quality versus what they really do.
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The trial, which is one of the largest class-action discrimination suits to ever reach trial, is expected to last for five weeks.
The federal appeals court had concluded there was enough merit in the claims to proceed to trial on a class-action track.
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Microsoft and Best Buy failed to get a racketeering case against them dismissed Monday, and now face trial in a class-action RICO suit.
After that comes a removal notice sent to the web host and legal action, but this trial involved only steps one and two.
Judge Batts makes these points in an 83-page pre-trial opinion for a class-action lawsuit filed by students, workers and residents of Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn who say they were exposed to hazardous materials and polluted air.
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Weaver did not testify in Sandusky's trial, but did file a civil action against the former coach.
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The depredations of trial lawyers looking to get in on the action will be fueled by outrageous fees from those tobacco settlements.
Ultimately, bottom-up, sustainable liberalisation will have to rely largely on the unilateral action of governments, trying, by trial-and-error, to put their houses in order.
"That action by Owen Paterson amounted to detention without trial and runs contrary to natural justice, " he added.
He alleges the SEC's administrative action would deny him his right to a jury trial and other procedural safeguards available if the case had been brought in civil court.
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In December, as the trial approached, Dan Salamone, the news director for WOIO 19 Action News, faced a dilemma: Cameras aren't allowed in federal courtrooms.
"If any suspect of the crimes of 11 September, 2001, is captured during military action, they should be brought to justice through a fair trial and without the possibility of the death penalty, " the statement added.
He also co-sponsored a bill designed to cut down on malpractice litigation in 2005, and voted for the Class Action Fairness Act, a law that made it harder for trial lawyers to file some of their most lucrative cases.
This disciplinary action will only hurt the spread of information and provide fodder for rapacious trial lawyers.
In essence, the judge could deem a normally active asset (the business) to be a passive asset and therefore would use the trial date as the valuation date rather than the DOS (or commencement of the divorce action in New York).
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If so, the lower court might consider splitting the class action in half, so the question of liability can be determined first, followed by another trial on whether the discrimination was so bad as to merit punitives.
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.
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