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The 2010 America's Cup shared some similarities with the 1988 Cup in that it was also the subject of intense litigation, and the precedent set by the 1988 court decision guaranteed that any non-mutual consent match would be sailed in the fastest boats legal under the Deed: multihulls.
Almina saw this as blackmail and persuaded her new husband to take his ex-wife to court for what Sir Henry McCardie, who tried the case, called "the most bitterly conducted litigation I have ever known".
Widespread protests and litigation with the Supreme Court of India, however, led the Archaeological Survey to cede the temple back to the Hindu Religious and Endowment Board.
Some of McClellan's cases included litigation for exploding Ford Pintos, tobacco-caused expenses on the health care system and the licensing and regulation of cell phones.
Heim has worked as a clerk for Jeffrey R. Howard of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and as a litigation associate for the law firms Cravath, Swaine & Moore and Mintz Levin.
Following annexation, further litigation ensued involving the Save Our Springs Alliance.
CNET also announced that it could no longer review any product or service provided by companies that CBS are in litigation with (which also includes Aereo).
The Corby toxic waste case was a court case decided by The Hon. Mr. Justice Akenhead at the High Court of Justice, London, on 29 July 2009 in the case of Corby Group Litigation v. Corby Borough Council 2009 EWHC 1944 (TCC).
David W. Rivkin (born 1955), Litigation Partner at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
The Duran consent decree was a stipulated agreement to litigation of Duran v. King regarding prison conditions in New Mexico.
In a February 9, 2007 interview with Fox News Channel's John Gibson, Rusty Hardin, the family's attorney, said that the family would wait until Smith's immediate affairs in the wake of her sudden death are disclosed before discussing the status of litigation.
Established in 2006, the School features concentrations in Business, Litigation, Public interest, and General practice.
There are two courts that handle almost all family law litigation in British Columbia, Canada: the Provincial (Family) Court and the Supreme Court.
He was involved in key patent litigation during development of the telephone, the air brake, the steam turbine, the automobile, the airplane and the radio, as well as other electric appliances.
In 1774 he sold his share in the great playhouse, which had involved him in much litigation with his partners, to Leake; and three years later he purchased of Samuel Foote, then broken in health and spirits, the little theatre in the Haymarket.
Since 2004, he has been a partner at the Philadelphia law firm of Raynes McCarty, where he handles complex civil litigation involving tort, insurance and civil rights claims.
As a member of Rose Law Firm from 1964 to 2012, Herb practiced law in the areas of utility rate regulation, environmental, labor, bankruptcy, real estate and commercial lending and litigation, oil and gas, and eminent domain.
High-Tech Employee Antitrust Litigation involves a 2010 United States Department of Justice (DOJ) antitrust action and a 2013 civil class action against Adobe, Apple Inc., Google, Intel, Intuit, Pixar and Lucasfilm for alleged "no cold call" agreements which restrained the recruitment of high-tech employees.
Founded in 1940, IBS is headquartered in New Windsor, New York, with a legal office in Washington, D.C., and frequently represents its members with FCC negotiations, copyright issues, and litigation.
Ridgeway became nationally known when he revealed in The New Republic that General Motors had hired private detectives to tail consumer advocate Ralph Nader in an attempt to dig up information that might discredit him (Nader was behind litigation which challenged the safety of the Chevrolet Corvair).
These dockets encompass litigation categories as diverse as securities fraud, drugs and other products liability cases, intellectual property infringement, antitrust law violations, airplane crashes, employment practices and consumer data security breaches.
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If such cases are determined to involve one or more common questions of fact and are transferred, the Panel will then select the district court and assign a judge or judges to preside over the litigation.
Among the notable cases he has handled are:Lane v. Owens, in which he ruled that the State of Colorado could not permissibly compel recitation of the pledge of allegiance; Golan v. Gonzales, in which he held that the copyright provisions of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act did not violate the United States Constitution; and the litigation arising out of the Columbine High School massacre.
Christian's firm, Christian Khan, co-founded with Sadiq Khan, now a Labour MP, has participated in wrongful death inquests, and has been involved in litigation into drug regulation.
He is an honorary professor of the National Law School of India, served as advisor to the Ford Foundation on legal services and human rights programs in India, and was retained as an expert by the government of India in the litigation arising from the Bhopal disaster.
Binstein also sought to add All-American Howard Porter to the Condors' roster and the team entered litigation with the NBA's Chicago Bulls over Porter's status.
Austad sued Private Eye for libel and they settled for a "substantial sum", for damages and legal expenses, and printed an apology stating their "article constituted a most serious and damaging libel upon Ambassador Austad." Austad dismissed the controversy, saying Norway's largest newspaper, Aftenposten, praised him as the best U.S. ambassador they had ever had.
He has written several radio plays for the network, including St Graham and St Evelyn (2003) on the friendship between the Catholic novelists Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh and The Third Soldier Holds His Thighs (2005) on Mary Whitehouse's unsuccessful litigation against the National Theatre production of Howard Brenton's play The Romans in Britain.
Allegations had been made in the course of litigation suggesting that senior Foreign Office officials had taken advantage of their knowledge to speculate in foreign currencies; and these broadened to suggest that one senior official had manipulated the publication of the so-called Zinoviev letter so as to ensure the defeat of the Labour government in the general election of 1924 and thereby facilitate a spectacularly profitable foreign currency coup.
Brodkorb has announced his intention to file litigation again the State of Minnesota, the Minnesota Senate and Secretary of the Senate Cal Ludeman over his termination from the Minnesota Senate.
NRDC participates in litigation in federal and state courts to assure the faithful implementation and enforcement of the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, and many other federal and state laws protecting the environment.
The expression may come from SCM Corp. v. Xerox Corp. patent litigation case in the 1970s, wherein SCM's central charge had been that Xerox constructed a "patent thicket" to prevent competition.
Their first pension parachute was implemented for Union Carbide, and its design was upheld in Union Carbide’s litigation with GAF.
In January 2013, the commission is proposing to wind down operations and transfer its operations respectively to the Department of Justice and the Office of the Solicitor General and the Department of Finance for the pending civil litigation and the disposal of assets sequestered in the past years.
The disease was the main reason for litigation against the United States Radium Corporation by the so-called Radium Girls.
: In addition to being able to store records, enterprises must also establish the proper capabilities for retrieval of records, in the event they are needed for a purpose such as an audit or litigation, or for the case of destruction.
Litigation took place at the papal curia, in which Roger's rival Maurice, Abbot of Inchaffray, emerged victorious; Roger did not receive provision or consecration, and had resigned his claims before 5 March, when Maurice received papal provision.
In 1979 after much of the matter's litigation had already taken place, the court said:...
In July 2013 he appeared on Calvin Ayre TV where he announced he was in legal litigation with his sponsors of nine years, Ladbrokes, for their cessation of affiliate payments and breach of contract.
During her tenure at Foley Hoag, Lynch became the first woman to head the firm's litigation practice, and was among the team of lawyers representing defendant W.R. Grace & Co. in the Woburn, Massachusetts, toxic tort trial (the subject of Jonathan Harr's 1995 book A Civil Action.) Lynch remained in private practice until being appointed to the First Circuit.
Uppal is an attorney with Bryan Cave LLP with a practice focused on employee benefits litigation and labor and employment disputes, with an emphasis on unfair competition, wrongful discharge and equal employment opportunity litigation.
Moving to Helena, Montana in 1890 Walsh worked on injury cases involving railroad accidents and on copper litigation.
She also handled a wide range of commercial, intellectual property, and employment-related litigation, and represented public agencies in state and federal class actions, including the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services, the Illinois Department of Public Aid and the Chicago Housing Authority.
Because of the complexity of the Internal Revenue Code, the Tax Division was created to specialize in tax-related litigation.
Coast Guard attorneys are actively involved in a wide variety of civil litigation, from simple tort defense to constitutional challenges.
The United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Washington represents the United States in civil and criminal litigation in the court.
Since then, occasional bursts of Unix factionalism have broken out, such as the HP/SCO "3DA" alliance in 1995, and Project Monterey in 1998, a teaming of IBM, SCO, Sequent and Intel which was followed by litigation (SCO v. IBM) between IBM and the new SCO, formerly Caldera.
In litigation brought by The Council of Canadians, a federal court found that such fraud had occurred and had probably been perpetrated by someone with access to the Conservative Party's voter database, including its information about voter preferences.
He has represented clients such as NASCAR and Florida Power & Light, and he is involved in class-action litigation against Quixtar.
Recently, he was seeking legal fees equal to $22,000 per hour in connection with litigation against Motorola.