And some actually are known for litigating subpoena issues, and even litigating on appeal.
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Witness the money and energy expended on litigating, say, abortion.
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And there would be no more litigating over other tapes.
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I learned very early that litigating comedy was a bad idea.
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Trump is still litigating his areas of weakness from Monday's debate.
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Conversely, plaintiffs' lawyers may find the interpretation helpful when litigating cases.
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Are we really "still litigating incorporation of the Bill of Rights"?
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By then, ETE and Williams were already litigating in Chancery Court.
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"My career was litigating before the Supreme Court," Cruz shot back.
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We will not win the future by re-litigating the past.
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I don't want to keep hurting someone by rehashing, re-litigating.
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To be clear, I have no interest in litigating anyone's faith.
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She notes the unpredictability of litigating, even with a familiar judge.
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Scott, litigating in state court in New York, lost that battle!
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In litigating the matter, Mr. Obama's Justice Department requested extreme secrecy.
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And where necessary, we are litigating and sending it the courts.
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We look at these -- the collusion emails, Hillary re-litigating the election.
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He's sort of litigating this out in the public opinion right now.
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Clinton wasn't particularly interested in re-litigating the facts of the face.
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Amgen is litigating to keep U.S. generic competition for Sensipar at bay.
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"There was not a lot of re-litigating the past," Tillerson said.
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Litigating such matters as an individual consumer, even through arbitration, is impractical.
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"There was not a lot of re-litigating the past," Tillerson said.
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A week later, her fans are still litigating how they should feel.
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But only the United States truly stands to gain from re-litigating NAFTA.
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It speeds up discovery, and assists lawyers in drawing up a litigating strategy.
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He revels in his gadfly status and has developed a taste for litigating.
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Companies see high reputation costs in litigating and have strong incentives to settle.
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Oetting was meanwhile litigating on other fronts on behalf of the NationsBank class.
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Litigating such cases could also take a decade or more, the minority said.
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But we have been litigating only because we have been losing more broadly.
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Agape and the whistleblowers protested that neither of them wanted to keep litigating.
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But this time is different: Both lawyers will also be litigating alongside their daughters.
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He would spend the next few days litigating and relitigating his humiliation of Machado.
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Still, Cohen said foreigners have had success litigating IP issues in China for years.
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"We don't want to reduce that money by litigating and the like," he said.
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DoNotPay is an example of a bot that can in fact do the litigating.
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Once the complaint is lodged, the venues for litigating it can be maddeningly opaque.
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We're not going to be pulled into re-litigating the Halbach case with him.
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"The last thing I'm going to do is start litigating different policies," Ryan said.
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"What we have been doing since January 43 is just litigating this order," Wall replied.
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The companies, both based in San Francisco, are also litigating over patents in federal court.
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I didn't want it to feel as though I was completely re-litigating the election.
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Will we get both sides arguing over witnesses for the next five weeks, litigating privilege?
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He added that inmates litigating in good faith should be able to overcome that requirement.
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Based on my experience litigating criminal and civil environmental cases, I know the law is complex.
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On one hand, this an okay result in what was a challenging situation for litigating drivers.
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Providing adequate support and a fair split provides incentive to accept the agreement instead of litigating.
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In addition to Thursday's suit, Wigdor lawyer Jeanne Christensen is litigating two other cases against Uber.
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The Stone prosecution is just getting underway; Mueller is still litigating over a mystery foreign company.
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Six years later, IBM is still litigating its battle with Indiana over the failed automation gambit.
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The government is already trying to avoid litigating pending cases that challenge this same legal theory.
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So, too, Hillary Clinton who seems happy to spend her time re-litigating the 2016 election.
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Welcome back to 2016, where we are still re-litigating this issue for no sane reason.
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He has been litigating for decades and now simply wants to win exoneration before he dies.
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Both campaigns had signaled before the debate that they had little interest in litigating it further.
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Six months ago Lal landed a job with the BBA litigating cases related to child labor.
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I'm not a pollster and I'm not interested in litigating which is the more appropriate question.
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"Ultimately if we are spending time litigating APA issues we're spending less time litigating the merits of [the other] cases," Thomas Kane, division counsel in the IRS large business and international division said, adding that the IRS has been facing budget constraints over the past few years.
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Uber, Lyft and Postmates have all argued, for instance, that Keller Lenkner is not litigating in good faith, asserting that the firm fails to vet clients adequately and that, as a 15-lawyer shop, it has no intention of actually litigating thousands of arbitrations at a time.
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We spoke with Amiri about the Jane Doe case, other cases she is litigating, and what's next.
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"It s the case that will never die," he says "People keep litigating it over and over."
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While Flake has been litigating his confused feelings publicly, the others in the group have been quieter.
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I was unimpressed by Lewis's argument, but no one's litigating the merits of high-frequency trading here.
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The creditors committee said Sabine would have been better off litigating against its lenders rather than settling.
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But top Dems think it's horrendous that the party is now re-litigating the Clinton-Sanders primary.
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"In retrospect, I should have brushed up on the rules for softball before litigating them," she joked.
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Republicans, meanwhile, shot back that Democrats were wasting the committee's time and re-litigating the 2016 election.
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To that end, Democrats should limit their investigations to avoid accusations that they are re-litigating Mueller.
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Litigating defamation cases for public officials or public figures is different than for private individuals; it's tougher.
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I am truly glad that we were able to come to a resolution without litigating the matter.
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The question, however, is whether they work alongside or against the local governments litigating in federal court.
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Few companies want to run up the additional costs and risks of litigating the issue of fees.
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I have spent more than two years litigating against the Department of Justice for the computer intrusions.
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Besides issuing rules and litigating bad guys, the SEC made education a central part of its campaign.
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We are legislating ... we're investigating, as six committees have been doing for months ... and we are litigating.
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Antitrust cases are extremely expensive and antitrust enforcers have limited resources for pursuing investigations and litigating cases.
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Placed next to the two little ballon boys (Garcia and West, you still following?), she's a litigating force.
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This is a strange response, largely because it's re-litigating an issue from an election that Trump won.
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Both groups believe their legal protections to be sacrosanct, and are litigating against each other for top priority.
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PEOPLE's attempts to reach the attorneys litigating the lawsuit, as well as the attorney for Wilburn, were unsuccessful.
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John Wiley & Sons, No. 15-375, opened a window on the cost of litigating a Supreme Court case.
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But the city's attempt at litigating corrupt property owners, he said, will only work on a small scale.
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Is this pattern of litigating the ownership of fossils likely to play out in other countries, beyond Mongolia?
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Ms. Rushing's conservative credentials are impeccable, including ties to the Alliance Defending Freedom, a religious-right litigating organization.
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"I don't think litigating by frenzy and hysteria is an appropriate way to approach this case," he said.
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With social justice advocates re-litigating the issue in the #MeToo era, the couples' comments are worth having.
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Litigating defamation cases for public officials or public figures is different than for private individuals: It's more difficult.
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I flew across the country, litigating immigration cases against people accused of terrorism, terrorism fund-raising and espionage.
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The Times soldiered on and finally got the verdict set aside on appeal — after nine years of litigating.
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Twitter, which counts Trump among its active users, has a record of litigating in favor of user privacy.
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The American Intellectual Property Law Association estimates that the cost of litigating through the appeals process averages $350,000.
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History will judge harshly Congress re-litigating old claims about the world's most investigated biped while shirking exec.
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Spangenberg's IPwe doesn't plan to make money by litigating patents — IPwe will give its technology away for free.
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The heads of each of the litigating divisions is nominated by the president and confirmed by the US Senate.
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"You could piggyback off that criminal conviction to get to the place where you're only litigating damages," Cavallaro said.
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Every defendant, of course, must weigh the costs and benefits of settling rather than litigating claims they consider dubious.
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When litigating immigration didn't do it for him anymore, Kobach turned to legislating against it, albeit behind the scenes.
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Speaking for yourself and avoiding the trap of litigating the race on Trump's terms will be your biggest challenge.
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The Democrats are flipping one seat after another in the Trump era, and yet, they're still re-litigating 2016.
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He brought on three partners from his former law firm, WilmerHale, with significant litigating experience in high-stakes cases.
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Republicans opposed the provisions, claiming that Democrats were wasting the committee's time and re-litigating the 2016 presidential election.
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In today's situation, one rationale for not litigating President Trump's alleged congressional obstruction was the need for prompt action.
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After nearly two years litigating this case, there I was Wednesday in a federal court in Ohio testifying under oath.
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"We're profoundly disappointed," says Lee Petro, who represented the Wright Petitioners, a group of families litigating for the rate caps.
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Kennedy was unsatisfied with just litigating business matters, and threw her bedazzled cowgirl hat into the ring of political activism.
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Neel Chatterjee is a partner in the Silicon Valley office of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLP, specializing in litigating IP cases.
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Trump would, if he could, keep re-litigating the 2016 election with Clinton all the way through the 2020 election.
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After investigation, the government can opt to intervene, effectively assuming responsibility for litigating the fraud claim initiated by the whistleblower.
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The case that the U.S. government was litigating in this regard was withdrawn by the current Attorney General in March.
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Kornreich denied the lenders' request because she said they did not show they would have success litigating it moving forward.
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Democrats need to spend more time planning for victory 2018 and 2020 and less time re-litigating the 2016 defeat.
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The Raskins don't have a prominent national profile like Giuliani, but they have experience litigating cases inside of a courtroom.
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Yet years after the Affordable Care Act was passed, Americans are still litigating whether to return to the previous system.
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Drinking this is like drinking every Twitter thread re-litigating 23—utter misery that feels longer than it actually is.
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Doe's attorney Annie McAdams reportedly asked that the judge block the feature until they finish litigating this case and others.
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Both are executors of Mr. Epstein's will, and they authorized Troutman Sanders to continue litigating on behalf of the estate.
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Clinton bait each other, their supporters light up social media, re-litigating the old disputes and attacking one another, too.
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Mr. Giuliani, who did not return phone calls seeking comment, is, in fact, still litigating that part of his legacy.
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Those around Trump said they aren't sure why Trump is re-litigating the disputes now, though offered plenty of theories.
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"I am not interested in basically litigating something that is finished that makes my network look bad," Mr. O'Reilly responded.
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He has been a partner for over two decades, amassing a small fortune litigating securities and mergers and acquisitions cases.
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But enterprising environmental groups soon found that litigating the procedural provisions of NEPA was an effective way to halt development.
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Clearly, her counsel is resorting to litigating this case in the press because her claims have no merit in Court.
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"Litigating a policy position based on a preliminary assessment is premature, and this Court will not do so," he added.
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His supporters will deny it and cite the following: I have no interest in litigating any of these attacks here.
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Not only do the Clintons not profit from transparency, they profit by litigating every syllable of every allegation leveled against them.
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Uber is currently litigating 70 different federal lawsuits, which range from accusations of wage theft to fundamental questions of worker classification.
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Legal costs have also gone up because of the growing practice of litigating an initiative even before it makes the ballot.
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Here are some of those, just as a refresher and without re-litigating any of them, in no particular order: 1.
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The suit was filed by Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll, a Washington firm that specializes in litigating allegations of human rights abuse.
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"I always try to understand why a party is litigating a case when their position is flatly wrong," Ms. DiChello said.
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Like a tongue compulsively probing a rotten tooth, portions of the party seem unable to resist re-litigating the 2016 election.
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"You are preventing the defendant from litigating about the drug itself," explained Robert Dunham, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center.
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And it's not at all clear that Uber could disqualify the firm across thousands of arbitration proceedings without litigating the issue repeatedly.
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My client Janice Dickinson, for example, had been litigating for almost three years against Bill Cosby because he called her a liar.
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Having spent more than 20 years litigating food-borne illness cases, Bill Marler has a list of foods that he won't touch.
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If each side looks toward building the future, instead of litigating the past, they can become better than either would be alone.
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Be smart: As Democrats try to figure out 2020, it's bad enough that they keep re-litigating the Clinton-Trump general election.
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"The sentiment is that the Army has enough challenges going forward that we should not be litigating social issues," the staffer said.
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I'm completely with Karim on the issue of, I am not interested in litigating the past, I'm not interested in attributing blame.
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They got an opinion that explains why the judge believes Fedcap's interest in litigating openly outweighs their interest in protecting their privacy.
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Why would a state feel the need to spend millions litigating its own law, when other states had it taken care of?
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Many observers think that the pendulum already has swung too far toward restricting the use of class actions for litigating group claims.
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"She's the only foreign attorney litigating in Afghanistan; that in itself is quite courageous," Markus Potzel, the German ambassador in Kabul, said.
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"This is about more than slavery; this isn't about litigating things that happened 150 years ago," Mr. Coates said in an interview.
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Paul Weiss is not litigating the case but was appointed by the court to help the nonprofit find and represent deported parents.
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The union said when it filed the grievance that it proposed having its executive committee talk to the N.F.L. instead of litigating.
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"We have an 83-year-old defendant on a 40-year-old case that we're still wasting our time litigating," he said.
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The Central District judiciary and individuals and businesses litigating in federal court deserve a full bench, while Young merits a final vote.
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That would largely resolve the problems of both excessive delay and excessive expense in litigating capital offenses, not to mention excessive error.
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The average cost of litigating a PTAB petition to a final decision is about $250,000, according to patent risk management company RPX Corp.
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The A.C.L.U. is currently litigating a case against a North Carolina-based public charter school that requires girls to wear skirts to school.
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He said they've been litigating the Don McGahn case for months and it was clear there would be no effort to offer accommodations.
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Litigating the individual proposals — especially when it's not even clear that they would be put forward — over Twitter probably won't simplify Republicans' negotiations.
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The District's judiciary as well as people and businesses litigating in federal court deserve a full bench, while Bernstein merits a final vote.
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" And in a sign of the likely partisan divisions to come, he later added: "This isn't about re-litigating the 2016 presidential election.
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The District's judiciary as well as persons and corporations litigating in federal court deserve a full bench, while Scholer merits a final vote.
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Not a day has gone by since Clinton lost to Trump where folks on Twitter weren't re-litigating the 2016 Democratic primary election.
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The District's judiciary as well as people and businesses litigating in federal court merit a full bench, while Brown deserves a final ballot.
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Soon after his arrival in Richmond, Mr. Kaine began making a name for himself by litigating civil rights cases as a private lawyer.
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The District's judiciary as well as individuals and corporations litigating in federal court deserve a full bench, while Ong merits a final vote.
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The District's judiciary as well as persons and companies litigating in federal court merit a full bench, while Palk deserves a final vote.
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"We categorically deny each and every allegation and look forward to litigating this matter in court," he said in a statement on Thursday.
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And what kind of leader acts like this, litigating frustrations in public and dodging responsibility for the actions of the organization he runs?
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Democrat AGs have taken a lead role in litigating against Trump's policies, successfully blocking executive orders restricting travel from some Muslim-majority countries.
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Lupetin is currently litigating the other two wrongful dead lawsuits for two patients who suffered a similar fate at UPMC Presbyterian and Montefiore hospitals.
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" In a clip Kelly played of O'Reilly appearing on CBS, he said, "I'm not interested in litigating something that makes my network look bad.
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"Without the Committee's authorization, this potential exception to the consent requirement could not possibly apply, and EPIC's litigating this case remains premature," Boasberg wrote.
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Mr. Gucci had inherited 50 percent of the company from his father and was already feuding and litigating with other family members and heirs.
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The follow-through that Trump has described – replacing the trade negotiators and litigating in the World Trade Organization – isn't much of a rallying cry.
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The District's judiciary as well as people and companies litigating in federal court merit a full bench, while Baxter and Horan deserve final votes.
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As well, she argues that victims often have good reason to settle their claims rather than litigating, and without NDAs, perpetrators will not settle.
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Tensions ran high at times during Tuesday's hearing, with members re-litigating the 85033 passage of ObamaCare and repeated GOP efforts to repeal it.
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The new rules forced roughly half of those clinics to close before and during the years we were litigating Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt.
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It is about Democratic senators trying to re-litigate the 2016 election, and, just as importantly, working to begin litigating the 2020 presidential election.
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By the time the House is done litigating this case, Trump could very well be out of office and the case would be moot.
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She's been practicing employment law, including negotiating severance agreements and litigating discrimination, sexual harassment, noncompete agreements, and employment law issues in Florida since 1986.
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The Committee will continue investigating, litigating and legislating regarding these matters—including pressing for answers to our prior requests about the G7 selection process.
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The constitutional issues Kendall had mentioned weren't on the table that day; the President's lawyer said he would avoid litigating them in that hearing.
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"I don't think that litigating this in the public sphere is the best path forward," said Nisha Agarwal, the city's commissioner for immigrant affairs.
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He then shifted to the Interior Department, again litigating, before leaving the government to work at what was then the Mining and Reclamation Council.
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"We categorically deny all allegations of wrongdoing and look forward to litigating this matter in a court of law," Amster told NBC News then.
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Fact: Steel companies in the U.S. have a long history in litigating the unfair steel trading practices of other countries, especially in recent years.
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"We are currently in court litigating Inauguration Day access to parkland adjacent to the parade route for free speech activities," Ms. Verheyden-Hilliard said.
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"A group of thirteen states and the District of Columbia (the "Litigating States") seek to block the merger in its entirety," the filing reads.
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"A group of thirteen states and the District of Columbia (the "Litigating States") seek to block the merger in its entirety," the filing reads.
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Kannon Shanmugam, the victims' lawyer, who declined an interview for this article, told the nine justices they have already spent years litigating this matter.
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" In a statement to BuzzFeed News, Zatezalo said, "In litigating this matter, I believe this was the strongest enforcement action that would withstand judicial scrutiny.
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Then, Barry Asen, Ailes' lawyer, accused Gretchen of 'litigating in the press' and, without any investigation, within 3 hours, claimed that the allegations are false.
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At the top of her platform were issues like eliminating cash bail, investigating E-cigarette companies, litigating opioid companies, and protecting New York's water resources.
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In response, Lanier says the plaintiffs will now try to recover additional fees from Frost and Denney to cover the cost of litigating the appeal.
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Both sides express concern that re-litigating the primary battle could be a distraction, wasting energy that would be better spent resisting President-elect Trump.
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Chutkan said the conversations could be seen as Butina helping her defense attorney violate the court's gag order against litigating the case in the press.
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In a few instances in which people died after Tasers were used, civil rights lawyers litigating the episodes said the police had withheld crucial facts.
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Makan Delrahim, who leads the DOJ's Antitrust Division (and who AT&T considered calling to the witness stand), sat with the team litigating the case.
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Proponents of these laws argue that litigating a case based on events from the distant past runs the risk of lost evidence and faulty memories.
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I was in places I had spent time in before, in Selma and Birmingham … going back to my days litigating Jeff Sessions way back when.
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"I started my career litigating to clean up the air in California with one of the first Clean Air Act cases ever filed," Nichols said.
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"We categorically deny all allegations of wrongdoing and look forward to litigating this matter in a court of law," Amster told NBC News in February.
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Courts shouldn't certify classes in nationwide cases headed for trial, the brief said, because litigating claims under the laws of different states is not feasible.
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Just avoid re-litigating the matter or adding any gratuitous caveats to the effect that you never agreed with the criticism in the first place.
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"An awful lot of people go on to the circuit who have had positions in government or dealing with regulatory bodies, either serving on them, litigating cases before them, litigating cases against them or serving in academic positions," said Ronald Cass, a former member of the American Bar Association standing committee on the federal judiciary, who served as a representative for the D.C. Circuit.
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The court's website says a lawsuit can be filed in five minutes, and that litigating these types of cases online will save time and reduce costs.
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These awards are going to a handful of top firms, like Robbins Geller and Bernstein Litowitz, that specialize in actually litigating cases and not settling them.
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Part of the answer is that Bernie Sanders has chosen to make re-litigating reform, and trying for single-payer, a centerpiece of his presidential campaign.
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The main advantage of arbitration, compared with litigating in court, is speed: a decision is reached, on average, a year before one is made in court.
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It is also litigating to stop the growing problem of unlawful voter purges — including in Ohio, in a case that is pending before the Supreme Court.
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Despite his protestations about the unfairness of litigating such serious allegations in the press, his letter's distorted presentation of facts is intended to do just that.
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In this case, he said, the Labor Department specifically said it was litigating on behalf of millions of employees who would be entitled to overtime pay.
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Louisville and Pitino are litigating a dispute over tens of millions of dollars that Pitino says he is owed under his contract, which ran through 2026.
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It also remains unclear whether the consumers behind the 600 class actions filed over the scandal will ultimately accept Volkswagen's offer, or choose to keep litigating.
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Litigating against two tech giants could stretch Sonos too thin, the company's executives said, so they're focused only on the battle with Google at the moment.
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"Litigating this across the country will be random, haphazard, and it will take decades" to get the necessary resources to those most in need, Shapiro said.
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"We look forward to continuing to present our case in court and want to avoid appearing that we are litigating through the media instead," Blomquist added.
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Private lawyers who'd been litigating a years-long multidistrict litigation involving the same allegations accused the AGs of settling the private case out from under them.
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IntelliGender, which blocked the California AG from litigating consumer fraud claims against a company that had already settled a private class action asserting the same claims.
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It would ensure that innovators can focus on research and development rather than wasting resources re-litigating patents that have already survived multiple rounds of scrutiny.
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Maybe they did not relish the prospect of litigating the existence of a privilege and addressing the sort of issues I've mentioned in the federal courts.
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The ACLU, which has been litigating this case since February — months before widespread family separation made news — on behalf of parents separated from their children, is worried.
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But the focus of discussion here was less on litigating what happened a decade ago than on planning how future bond buying may be made more effective.
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The White House cited Rearden's experience litigating complex commercial cases before U.S. federal and state courts in a statement on Wednesday announcing Trump's intent to nominate her.
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"I had smoking-gun evidence that a woman was being pursued by her boss", says Ms Auster, who has been litigating workplace discrimination for over 25 years.
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But Trump might prove more politically resilient than the numbers suggest and than his combative, social media antics, in which he's constantly re-litigating 2016, should allow.
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In litigating the suit, Avenatti has come up against many detractors, who say Daniels, by definition, cannot be defamed due to her profession as an adult entertainer.
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In the past, DOJ allowed whistleblowers to continue litigating FCA cases even when the Justice Department, after investigating their claims, opted not to intervene in their suits.
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Which is why Sea-Monkeys are involved in a lawsuit now and why Barnum got tangled up in one in his time, litigating the nature of humbug.
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Still, domestic critics and international experts have questioned the ethics of ceding to the litigating creditors, saying it paves the way for them to extort other countries.
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Strange, meanwhile, boasted of defending "our precious religious liberty" by litigating on behalf of a Christian broadcasting company that opposed Obamacare's mandate that insurance plans cover contraception.
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Polster said Wednesday that while he wants a settlement, the companies have "asserted forcefully that they cannot reach final settlement without litigating certain matters," according to Reuters.
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Molo's letter does not explicitly request re-litigating the CTE issue—which is given very short shrift in the settlement, as only players who died between Jan.
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If we were in federal court, litigating criminal charges against the president, I think the "Trump is just Trump" defense would be colorable and tricky to overcome.
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The Alliance Defending Freedom, the conservative legal group that argued the Masterpiece case, is currently litigating cases where free speech, religious freedom and public accommodation laws collide.
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Since 2013, the burden of proving discrimination — and the cost of detecting and litigating it — has been shifted to minority voters and the groups that represent them.
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This is why Hochschild's formulation is so helpful: It's a way to talk about the pain that people feel, sympathetically, without litigating the reasons they feel it.
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Litigating the case on the company's behalf has the potential to push Mueller's team toward a trial, without exposing any individual to the possibility of jail time.
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Democrats may also want to reconsider the wisdom of pursuing, and hyping, the investigation into Russia's election meddling as a means of re-litigating last year's election.
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The last place Trump needs to be is in court with a former porn star, litigating one of the worst-drafted nondisclosure agreements ever put to paper.
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Montana Department of Revenue, brought to the court by the Institute for Justice, a libertarian litigating group that has been a leader in the school choice movement.
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The highest-paid jobs are clustered in the last box; managing a hedge fund, litigating a bankruptcy, and producing a TV show are all cognitive and nonroutine.
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Even more disturbing is the argument by some that litigating would be a mistake because the conservative majority of the Supreme Court will just side with Trump.
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While the House has spent some considerable time litigating over tax records, it has refused to go to court to enforce any witness subpoenas for the investigation.
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In a hit to the Trump administration, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled Monday that cases litigating the Clean Water Act should be heard by federal district courts.
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The committee has been litigating since August in hopes of securing McGahn's testimony, which could bolster its case that Trump has improperly obstructed investigations into his presidency.
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The Wisconsin Republican went full bore into litigating the 2016 election rather than discussing Trump's current predicament, which is now the subject of the House's impeachment inquiry.
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This was about as unchallenging an interview as Biden could expect and he could have prepared and delivered clear, definitive answers that didn't involve litigating Senate procedure.
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I have had the privilege of litigating cases before the Supreme Court for three decades including the time that Anthony Kennedy was on the bench until his retirement.
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The offer, if accepted by all litigating bondholders, would represent a roughly 25 percent discount or so-called haircut for creditors who filed claims of about $9 billion.
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For all his public bluster, Trump seemed aware of this fact, spending nearly the entire rally re-litigating the debate, this time with the help of a teleprompter.
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Despite spending millions of dollars litigating to block the spread of legal sports betting, the leagues actually stand to profit immensely from their loss at the Supreme Court.
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Their work ranges from collaborating with legislators on immigration policy to litigating on behalf of those whose rights they believe have been violated by state and federal policy.
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The department includes the litigating divisions such as the Civil Rights Division, Criminal Division, Antitrust Division, National Security Division, Civil Division, and the Environmental and Natural Resources Division.
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The judicial review provisions provide for administrative and federal court review of such precedent decisions in regular removal proceedings, which is where ACLU should be litigating this case.
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After leaving – and litigating with – one early-stage tech company to start another, Mr. García sells out to Twitter, only to immediately abandon his co-founders for Facebook.
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As she inched back into the spotlight, Clinton has focused more of her public remarks on pushing back at the Trump administration instead of re-litigating the election.
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The cost of hiring a lawyer, filing a complaint, and litigating (or arbitrating) the case until the bitter end will vastly exceed the amount of money at issue.
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Mr. Spicer made it clear that he would take his cues from his boss, rather than the usual press secretary's approach of litigating disputes with journalists in private.
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For family defense attorneys, the process of litigating hearings to exculpate parents and reunite families can last weeks or months, during which time the family is traumatically separated.
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For family defense attorneys, the process of litigating hearings to exculpate parents and reunite families can last weeks or months, during which time the family is traumatically separated.
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There are any number of formal and informal legal doctrines that presume that the Justice Department acts in good faith when litigating on behalf of the federal government.
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Robbins Geller countered that Judge Frank had effectively prevented shareholders from litigating as a class, but did not contest that the lead investor didn't rely on the alleged misrepresentations.
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That's partly because Trump has adopted a program of birther-ish positions and partly because the press isn't particularly well-suited to re-litigating controversies from four years ago.
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" But Tillerson also said that "there was a very clear positive chemistry between the two" and that there "was not a lot of re-litigating things from the past.
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Barr offered a hearty endorsement of Rosen's nomination, praising his "more than 35 years' experience litigating complex matters in state and federal courts across the country" earlier this year.
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In the process of litigating their grievance, Trump's critics are charging headlong off of defensible terrain and into a debate about American values—debates that Trump tends to win.
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Lieu asked Comey to give Congress and the public time to sort out the complicated issues around government access to locked data, instead of litigating the matter in court.
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In 2015, he announced that he would spend more than $10 million running ads against state attorneys general who were litigating against the Obama administration's efforts to regulate emissions.
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Government lawyers litigating the case acknowledged that officials had "completely stopped processing" so-called follow-to-join refugee applications, except for those handled at centers in Kenya and Thailand.
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Again, that doesn't mean that there's not a basis for doing it, and if they end up litigating, that's what the parties will end up arguing about in court.
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The city's reform agreement, which avoids the cost of litigating the Justice Department's claims, requires Ferguson's officers to have bias-awareness training and implement an accountability system, city officials said.
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Plater said if he were litigating the case for the Sioux, he'd cite a Supreme Court decision as precedent that the current administration hasn't provided adequate evidence for the reversal.
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Royal Park's disappointing track record on class certification is a pretty good indicator that MBS trustees made a smart strategic decision to keep litigating instead of settling investor class actions.
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"In other words, how much evidence you have to satisfy that last element against how much time you're willing to spend in the courts, litigating the interview with the president."
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As the left and Democrats work to clean their own houses, re-litigating past conflicts like whether or not Bill Clinton should have resigned, Moore, is leading in the polls.
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Furman said he hoped his ruling will "lift any cloud of uncertainty hovering over" the cases and allow plaintiffs' lawyers to return to litigating against GM, instead of each other.
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But Pruitt has hired Bill Wehrum, who has been busy litigating for industry against the Obama climate measures, as his assistant administrator for air, precisely to oversee their formal rollback.
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"Litigating this matter before a UK court is impossible or non-justiciable given the UK's exclusion from the European Council meetings in question," the letter from Maugham's legal team says.
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Barr previously offered a hearty endorsement of Rosen's nomination, praising his "more than 35 years' experience litigating complex matters in state and federal courts across the country" earlier this year.
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Christina Martin is an attorney with Pacific Legal Foundation, a nonprofit public interest organization that litigates to defend Constitutional and individual rights and that is litigating each of these cases.
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As solicitor general, Francisco is charged with supervising the litigating positions of the federal government, a role that puts him before the Supreme Court arguing on behalf of the administration.
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They can attempt to moot cases by fixing their websites quickly, the brief argued, or they can delay paying fees to plaintiffs' lawyers by actually litigating claims they consider unwarranted.
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Pop Warner could have chosen to continue litigating the case in Wisconsin, where Chernach lived and the lawsuit was filed, but in a first, it chose to settle the case.
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But even if Texas loses, a federal law is needed to avoid litigating every new state law that attempts to get around the constitution to push abortion out of reach.
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Men who scream "snowflake" at rape victims feel so wounded by even minor critiques that they have been re-litigating the same arguments about "offense" and "free speech" for decades.
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Also, repealing the Clean Power Plan and litigating that action could last through much of Trump's term, keeping the issue in the political spotlight during the 2018 and 2020 elections.
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The mix of speeches on the same day the DNC went to court created an interesting juxtaposition, too: "The party" further litigating (literally) 20203, while its 2020 crop looked forward.
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When he joined the firm last year, Akin Gump said he would add significant depth to its experience in litigating False Claims Act cases, including in the health care industry.
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The fee would be paid to the so-called plaintiffs executive committee that is litigating thousands of lawsuits by towns, counties and tribal governments that have been consolidated before Polster.
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For that matter, no one seems terribly worried about even finding a lawyer who has experience prosecuting cases or litigating civil actions on behalf of the public and government agencies.
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There's a reference to the Ninja Turtles, confirmed best cartoon and way better than the Power Rangers, not that I'm still litigating the arguments I had as a five year old.
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Upon his return he wrote to colleagues, "If DC judges could see what we saw, I believe they would be more sympathetic to our litigating positions," he wrote in one email.
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DOJ could also dismiss its appeal of the temporary restraining order altogether and continue litigating the merits of the case in front of Robart in an attempt to bolster its case.
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The Covington brief said DOJ's explanation that a stay of the Alsup injunction would not protect the administration from litigating other DACA suits is no reason to leapfrog normal appellate procedures.
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A deduction of $3 million from the settlement was made to reimburse costs incurred by U.S. authorities in "investigating, seizing, litigating and securing settlement of the Red Granite funds," Thomas said.
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" Judge Furman also said "the court also hopes that plaintiffs' counsel will stop litigating their grievances with one another (especially through the press) and return to focusing on their common adversary.
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If they're technologically savvy, businesses in the 33rd Circuit should now be able to take advantage of a strategy known as "snap removal" to avoid litigating in their home state courts.
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We're not in it to hear endless re-litigating of exactly when Teresa Halbach's car was found, or whether several different courts of appeals can agree that Dassey's confession was coerced.
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The 39-year-old representative told reporters before the event that she was more interested in preventing Russia from attacking the electoral process than in "re-litigating" the 2016 presidential contest.
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Still, the IFT must take a firm stance, or "we can end up in the whole game that was played before by America Movil, which is basically litigating everything," Rubio said.
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The 39-year-old representative told reporters before the event that she was more interested in preventing Russia from attacking the electoral process than in 're-litigating' the 2016 presidential contest.
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It's a bizarre dance, litigating with the C.I.A. The agency says it can neither confirm nor deny that the documents even exist — despite our asking for them by name and date.
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In sending his lawyers into action, the President is again activating the kind of litigating reflex which he often indulged as a tycoon when he was party to thousands of lawsuits.
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Mr. Macri has moved to end a prolonged debt dispute by reaching an agreement with litigating hedge funds in New York, although the deal still requires approval from the Argentine Senate.
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" Yet he's still around, litigating details from the match and devoting big chunks of his book (written with Mig Greengard) to scapegoating everyone involved with I.B.M.'s "$10 million alarm clock.
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To the extent we are going to review President Obama's record, I think we should be highlighting some of its strengths rather than re-litigating some of the questions about it.
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On the other side of the aisle, Republicans are mostly unified in using Barr's flimsy summation of the Mueller report to double down on their goal of re-litigating Hillary Clinton.
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Protracted review undermines the courts' ability to deliver justice, especially for people and businesses litigating in federal court, and decreases citizen respect for the appointments process and the branches of government.
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Grant told me his experience running a plaintiffs' firm and litigating every day has taught him to price litigation risk in a more nuanced way than most bankers or defense lawyers.
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Our Sunday Magazine's climate issue looks at how and why a Peruvian farmer sued a German utility company — and what the effort might teach us about litigating a complex global problem.
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Frank Petosa, head of complex environmental litigation at Florida's Morgan & Morgan, which is representing residents in the California case in multiple lawsuits, said the firm decided against litigating in Flint for now.
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Not only is Congress considering a "Me Too" bill to overhaul anti-harassment policies, women are marching through the streets of Hollywood; we are even re-litigating the decades-old Clinton scandals.
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But Trump's attack isn't really about litigating Biden's childhood, or how about how successful the Obama administration was in pulling the economy out of the mess it inherited from the Bush administration.
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Instead of litigating details, I'd like to use the Bloomberg article to do something that tech journalism probably doesn't do enough: Dig into the juicy politics of the global electronics supply chain.
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Litigating in a far-flung Texas district is prohibitively expensive for cash-strapped and time-crunched startups, so troll victims usually decide to settle, even if the suit itself is clearly meritless.
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After all of the time the fiscal board has spent litigating against creditors, the most recent meeting of the board reveals its failure to establish the real fiscal condition of the commonwealth.
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With President-elect Trump's inauguration in a few days, thousands of American aluminum workers will soon look to the Trump administration to stand up to China by litigating this landmark trade case.
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Tired delegates at the end of an all-night bargaining session spent the final hours of the negotiation litigating the text of COP25's ambition statement outlining goals for the next year.
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" "For example, right now we are litigating one case where the district court has authorized a deposition of the Secretary of Commerce about the decision to reinstate a question on the Census.
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Now you have to hold these people until the whole process of charging them, litigating in a court, finding them guilty or not and then processing them out of the country takes place.
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"The house they bought together while married, that would likely be considered community property," Los Angeles-based divorce attorney Jerry Wang, who is not involved with litigating the couple's split, previously told PEOPLE.
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It would most likely be faster and cheaper than litigating their claims against Mr. Epstein, who committed suicide in August at the Manhattan Correctional Center after his arrest on federal sex-trafficking charges.
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The council approved the agreement without changes at its meeting on Tuesday evening, a vote that avoids "the time and cost of litigating the (Justice Department's) claims," the city said in a statement.
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Raskin & Raskin's website highlights "significant experience" handling search warrants and touts its work in litigating the return of thousands of pages of documents protected by attorney-client privilege to a national law firm.
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In other areas, Mr. Macri moved to end the prolonged debt dispute by reaching an agreement with litigating hedge funds in New York, although the deal still requires approval from the Argentine Senate.
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Slip-and-fall cases are common in large cities, and the business of litigating such claims has a long history of abuse, with insurance companies spending large sums of money to detect fraud.
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So much of the candidacies of the major party candidates on the progressive and centrist wing of the party are about litigating the latest political story or finishing the battles of 20th century.
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Democratic strategist Don Calloway said on Monday that Michael Cohen's lawyer, Lanny Davis, is taking a cue from Rudy Giuliani and Michael Avenatti and is litigating his client's case in the public arena.
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Seeing no benefit in litigating Mr. Trump's latest Twitter outbursts, Mr. Gillespie dismissed a question from the moderator, Judy Woodruff, the host of "PBS NewsHour," about the president's grievances over the Russia investigation.
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"Perhaps the photos will reinvigorate the debate about who should be held accountable for the abuses, and in what way," said Jameel Jaffer, deputy legal director of the A.C.L.U., who is litigating the case.
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In a trio of rulings on Friday, the 22015th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals blessed a tactic that will allow plaintiffs lawyers litigating California consumer class actions to defeat defense motions to compel arbitration.
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But millions of others are still litigating the notion that she is a Democratic operative, that she's being paid, that she is willingly torpedoing her life in order to retraumatize herself on national television.
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Trump then came forward with an agreement that he wouldn't try to enforce the nondisclosure agreement, and the parties are now litigating over whether that was valid and if it makes the case moot.
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An exclamation-point-strewn brief on behalf of New York City taxi drivers spells out the challenge of litigating complaints one by one, challenging companies' claims that arbitration is the cheap and efficient path.
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Hunter, represented by Cotchett Pitre & McCarthy, said in the whistleblowers' brief that their interest in preserving the confidentiality of private information about the suits they're litigating trumps the public interest in their settlement agreement.
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Perhaps Reid's greatest ruse was allowing the president to overreach by making unlawful recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board without litigating to defend the Senate's power to confirm or reject these appointments.
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However, six trade lawyers with experience in litigating WTO disputes said they believed the plan would likely be deemed an unlawful subsidy on domestic goods, export subsidy or a de facto tariff on imports.
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Instead of litigating the details of the conversation, Warren decided to use the question about it to notch a point for the female candidates of 2020 -- and land a cheeky dig at the men.
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The employer, a small chain of funeral homes in Michigan that dismissed a longtime employee who was transitioning from male to female, is represented by Alliance Defending Freedom, a prominent Christian-right litigating organization.
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If they do end up litigating, I think there's no question that they'll use his prior statements and tweets to show that this is politically motivated and not based in law or competitive harm.
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If your husband is fixated on Restaurant A, though, and no sensible alternatives gain traction, then it actually might make more sense to drop it and be broke than to keep litigating it with him.
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His experience as a state attorney general involved litigating over Obama policies he felt were illegal, which is very different from running the US' biggest immigration agency and implementing notoriously complex immigration law and regulation.
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Fourteen years later, litigating the invasion—the most disastrous foreign policy decision since the Vietnam War—has largely become a matter of criticizing de-Ba'athification, the disbanding of the army, and other second-order issues.
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A 22019 percent tariff will be levied on $50 billion of tech goods imported from China, and the U.S. pledges in the statement to continue litigating the issue in front of the World Trade Organization.
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Meanwhile, on Wednesday, as Julia Harte reported for Reuters, FBI Director James Comey said in press briefing that he expects to keep litigating to force companies like Apple to help investigators access their customers' data.
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To be sure, there are jurisdiction issues — Mr. Redstone would be litigating issues over a Massachusetts trust in California, but this would at least ensure the early litigation took place in the Los Angeles court.
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A 25 percent tariff will be levied on $50 billion of tech goods imported from China, and the U.S. pledges in the statement to continue litigating the issue in front of the World Trade Organization.
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Yet in the case of addressing climate change, we have historically remained too wedded to litigating the existence of the problem at all, often because the proposed solutions are perceived as negative to many stakeholders.
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So the liability of companies that make and sell prescription opioids, he said, should be determined in a statewide case – specifically, in the two Ohio state-court suits his office is litigating against opioid defendants.
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The creation of the coalition, which the groups named the Firearms Accountability Counsel Task Force, amounts to a tacit acknowledgment that the federal shield law has undercut the approach to litigating against the gun industry.
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It's not just U.S. attorneys and litigating components, it is all the agencies; FBI and DEA and ATF and the Marshall Service and the Federal Bureau of Prisons, so it is a lot of stuff.
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By mentioning her on stage, then introducing her as a campaign surrogate immediately afterward, Clinton lured Trump into spending several days re-litigating all the sexist, racist tropes he'd directed at the Latina beauty pageant winner.
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But we're living in a post-Clinton world now—rumors about her daughter Chelsea notwithstanding—so there's no use re-litigating tired arguments about whether, say, she's a brave feminist pioneer or a soulless neoliberal sellout.
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"I don't see how it is possible to litigate whether the president's behavior in asking for an investigation was appropriate without litigating whether he had a good faith basis for asking for that investigation," Kennedy said.
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Even some of Clinton's allies have grown weary of her insistence on re-litigating the 2016 campaign at a time when the Democratic Party is looking to forge a new identity in the age of Trump.
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Instead of encouraging a global resolution of the opioid crisis, these AGs said, the negotiating class would impede it by driving a wedge between local governments in the MDL and state AGs litigating outside of it.
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Our Sunday magazine's climate issue looks at how and why a Peruvian farmer has sued a German utility company over global warming — and what the effort might teach us about litigating a problem so enormously complex.
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I may well end up litigating the matter in federal court, but the House Judiciary Committee could short circuit the process and do itself a favor by asking for all PCLOB EO 12333 reports right now.
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"I would like adult supervision to come in from Broadcom, work it out with Apple and make it so that I can make more money with Apple as opposed to litigating until the cows come home."
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If an individual was hired to fit prosthetic limbs on veterans' combat injuries, that is what they should be doing — not somewhere litigating employee grievances or conducting other union business every hour of every work day.
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Mr. Schaffer, 70, has had a long and distinguished career, including stints as a federal prosecutor in Manhattan, as chief litigating corporation counsel under Mayor Edward I. Koch, and as chairman of the Legal Aid Society.
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And that brings us to a second mystery surrounding the three DACA cases: why didn't the Trump administration simply produce a new policy memo, rather than litigating these cases all the way to the Supreme Court?
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And the first step toward that is litigating the issue in public to help voters see the cost of preserving this rule, which could put pressure on other senators if a movement forms to end it.
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That their continued ignorance — after all of this black writing and marching and singing and pleading and litigating with them to not be ignorant in a million different ways — is not just annoying but fundamentally violent?
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As a result, the costs of litigating a case against an accused abuser or nursing home -- like many of the horrific examples detailed in CNN's investigation -- likely would outweigh the amount of money a victim could recover.
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The organization also noted a decline in positive responses from the Environment and Natural Resources Division and the Civil Division; it didn't have data yet for other litigating components of the department, including the Civil Rights Division.
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None of these tests apparently measure your willingness to cater to the whims of a wilting carrot who, despite the numerous pressures of a tanking presidency, seems much more interested in litigating his feuds through the media.
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Essentially, DOJ is saying it doesn't matter that these whistleblowers and their lawyers have been litigating this case for eight years, including a trip to the Supreme Court, with DOJ's full knowledge and support on legal principles.
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"The discussion on deducting synergies from deal price is something that lawyers litigating appraisal cases are going to pay close attention to," said Eduardo Gallardo, a Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher attorney who was not involved in the case.
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The litigation seems to be an obvious no-brainer for municipal officials: The fossil-fuel producers are unpopular, to put it mildly, so the adverse political effects of litigating against them are somewhere between zero and nil.
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Clinton avoided litigating many of Mr. Trump's most personal attacks and instead invoked the words of Michelle Obama, the popular first lady, who has argued that Democrats must stay above the fray when Republicans lob dirty attacks.
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When the company was in federal court litigating to enforce its arbitration provisions, the drivers' filings said, Uber assured the 113th Circuit that it would pay the necessary fees to allow drivers to arbitrate their claims individually.
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The numbers: A 2023 percent tariff will be levied on $50 billion of tech goods imported from China, and the U.S. pledges in the statement to continue litigating the issue in front of the World Trade Organization.
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Although the NAACP Legal Defense Fund is still litigating about 100 school desegregation cases from the Brown era across the South, the Supreme Court has, in practice, halted any new federal lawsuits that would challenge school segregation.
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" The department argued: "The complaint rests on a host of novel and fundamentally flawed constitutional premises, and litigating the claims would entail intrusive discovery into the president's personal financial affairs and the official actions of his administration.
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First, as unusual as it is for the government to change its litigating position from one administration to the next, it's virtually unheard of for the government to so fundamentally change its position within the same administration.
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But Sunu Chandy, who was a trial attorney at the EEOC's New York office from 1999-2014, said unions remained resistant to litigating complaints that they didn't regard as "traditional" labor issues, such as pay and benefits.
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United States is the "most promising" legal action on climate change in the world at the moment, said Michael Gerrard, director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University, who is not litigating the case.
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Plaintiffs lawyer Rubin said that if the rulings hold up, corporations will be faced with the interesting choice of whether to attempt to set the terms of injunctive arbitration in order to avoid litigating class actions in court.
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At the risk of re-litigating the philosophical (possibly religious) debate about whether or not it's a good idea to put a file system on an iPhone or iPad, I'm going to say that this is long overdue.
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But if Dutch settlements are the best way for shareholders to recover against European companies, why are the two U.S. plaintiffs' firms that have actually been part of global investor settlements in Holland litigating VW claims in Germany?
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And that if Democrats spend the next 18 months litigating whether Trump should be impeached for his decidedly unpresidential conduct during the course of the Mueller investigation, they are allowing the race to be about personalities, not policies.
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In other words, how much evidence that you have that would satisfy the last element [of intent to obstruct justice] against how much time are you willing to spend in the courts litigating the interview with the president.
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CFAA "is creating a significant barrier to research and testing necessary to uncover online discrimination in everything from housing to employment," ACLU staff attorneys Esha Bhandari and Rachel Goodman, who are litigating the case, said in a statement.
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But not any one issue is going to trigger how we will go do this because it's about investigating, it's about litigating, it's about getting the truth to hold everyone accountable and no one is above the law.
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In Egypt, he said, the struggle over terms is, in part, a way of litigating whether parties like the Muslim Brotherhood are ideologically akin to terror groups — and therefore whether they should be allowed to participate in society.
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Putin and Trump first met at a G-20 summit in Hamburg in July when they discussed allegations of Russian meddling in the U.S. presidential election, but agreed to focus on better ties rather than litigating the past.
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As Puerto Rico sorts its way through the biggest bankruptcy in U.S. municipal history with $70 billion in bond debt and another $49 billion in pension liabilities, several creditor groups are litigating feverishly over who gets paid first.
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"While this is financial bankruptcy, it really also shows the moral bankruptcy of the problems that the Boy Scouts created," said Paul Mones, a sex abuse attorney who's spent more than a decade litigating Boy Scout-related cases.
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But there is no escaping the emotional cost of litigating the truth of a murder, in a proceeding requiring families to repeatedly relive the worst episode of their lives, and expose themselves in person to conspiracists targeting them.
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" The motion adds that "litigating substantive motions in a piecemeal fashion and before Defendants have an opportunity to become familiar with the government's evidence could substantially prejudice the Defendants' ability to make proper legal arguments to contest the allegations.
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A California cosmetology school waived its right to force a proposed wage-and-hour class action into individual arbitration by litigating the case for nearly 17 months before moving to compel arbitration, a federal appeals court ruled on Thursday.
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Various rival campaigns have spent a fair amount of time litigating things like a 1981 Biden op-ed justifying a vote against a child care tax credit or his opposition to federally funded desegregation busing programs in the 1970s.
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Justice Harry Blackmun, writing for the majority in the case, said that "several obstacles" deterring pregnant women from asserting their own rights justified granting an exception to the usual rule that precludes plaintiffs from litigating the rights of others.
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Mr. Clayton has a far different mandate, so a key indicator of his approach to enforcement will be the appointment of a new director of the enforcement division, which has primary responsibility for investigating violations and litigating civil charges.
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That's because Barletta says if Biden is the eventual Democratic nominee, the GOP will revert to the 2016 tactics that put Trump in the White House: re-litigating the Obama years, and connecting them firmly to Uncle Joe Biden.
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Eugene, Oregon (CNN)Julia Olson is litigating what should be considered the most important court case in the United States: She's helping 2.73 kids, as young as age 9, sue the Obama administration over its insufficient action on climate change.
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Leaking can be a last resort for civil servants worried about breaking the law — but it can also be a way for their less scrupulous peers to get around the law by litigating things in the court of public opinion instead.
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"The complaint rests on a host of novel and fundamentally flawed constitutional premises, and litigating the claims would entail intrusive discovery into the President's personal financial affairs and the official actions of his Administration," Trump's lawyers said in a court filing.
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In the New York case, Apple was asked to produce a list of iOS devices currently subject to federal investigation, in order to prove that the issues raised were still worth litigating after the initial defendant agreed to a plea bargain.
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Survivors huddle in cellars, silent, while the last and hardiest creatures patrol the rubble outside, glibly re-litigating sexual harassment lawsuits so that they are less inconvenient to longstanding biases and blowing sulphurous grandiosities down empty alleys all night long.
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But assuming that he applied the exacting likelihood-of-success standard to Waymo's evidence that Uber misappropriated trade secrets, Thursday night's rulings mean Uber is now stuck litigating in front of a judge who thinks Waymo has a quite convincing case.
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Rick Weidman, executive director of policy and government affairs at the Vietnam Veterans of America, told CNN before Trump's trip that little can be gained from the President re-litigating his decisions during the Vietnam War while in the region.
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Gupta noted several factors making the Harvard case somewhat unusual for the Justice Department's intervention, including the fact that private attorneys are already aggressively litigating the case and the Department of Education dismissed a complaint against the school back in 2015.
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Phil Murphy (D) said the biggest surprise he has encountered in his first year as governor is "the amount of time, energy, manpower that we're putting up against litigating, compensating, mitigating for everything that's coming at us" from the federal government.
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IBM — one of the world's biggest technology patent holders, with more than 45,000 now credited to it — is no stranger to litigating against other companies that it believes infringes on them, with other suits involving Twitter, Amazon, Expedia and more.
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Fitch notes that ANTM and CI are currently litigating a $33712321 billion termination fee CI alleges it is due under terms of the merger agreement that was terminated in May 33711, as well as various damages claims and counter-claims.
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Our Sunday Magazine's climate issue looks at how and why a Peruvian farmer has filed a lawsuit against a German utility company — and what the effort might teach us about litigating a problem as enormously complex as global climate change.
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Even if Biden melts down, Buttigieg's window to become the moderate choice could be a narrow one, lasting only until Mike Bloomberg's money comes to bear — in which case every day we're litigating outcomes is a lost one for his campaign.
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The prosecution and defense have been litigating what evidence the United States government must provide defense lawyers and what laws apply at the court, which was created by President George W. Bush and subsequently overhauled by President Barack Obama and Congress.
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Even if Trump was totally accurate in describing the path of Dorian (and he wasn't), it still is absolutely irresponsible for the President of the United States to be litigating the question -- especially while other states are in direct danger.
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The bill protects donors to homeless shelters, food banks, battered spouse refuges, veterans assistance programs, animal rescues, organizations educating about and litigating to protect civil liberties, and any other tax-exempt cause or charity with a 501(c)(85033) designation.
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Brnovich's case relied upon language in the U.S. Constitution giving the Supreme Court "original jurisdiction" over disputes in which a state is a party, meaning states can file a lawsuit at the high court instead of litigating first in lower courts.
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Brnovich's case relied upon language in the U.S. Constitution giving the Supreme Court "original jurisdiction" over disputes in which a state is a party, meaning states can file a lawsuit at the high court instead of litigating first in lower courts.
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Cases litigating the question of whether sexual orientation discrimination is inherently sex discrimination are pending in multiple federal appeals courts, and Attorney General Loretta Lynch told BuzzFeed this spring that the Justice Department was "looking" at whether to adopt this position.
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Trump's strategy, concluded journalist and author Michael Weiss on Twitter Thursday, was to sell "debunked lies to the base" and force "the media to keep mentioning and re-litigating Biden/Burisma (and now China) while denouncing the media as enemy agents."
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Mr. Obama has experienced the court in three distinct phases — teaching constitutional law for 12 years at the University of Chicago, voting on Supreme Court nominees for four years as a senator and selecting nominees and litigating cases for seven years as president.
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In a separate cover letter, the DOJ also responded directly to a February 22 request to Gorsuch from Feinstein requesting information regarding his role with respect to 10 specific cases that the DOJ was litigating during his time at the Justice Department.
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"While the parents of the deceased had to spend years litigating to read their daughter's messages, the National Security Agency and the Federal Intelligence Service would only need a few mouse clicks," Buermeyer said, referring to the U.S. and German intelligence agencies.
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That's probably why the US has been litigating this case for five years and hasn't yet sought Ireland's help to get access to the emails through their MLAT — something that Ireland has politely reiterated in its own amicus to the Supreme Court.
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While that cost could still be considerable because Uber has committed to covering the expenses of arbitration, "it will almost certainly be less than a case with a viable path towards litigating all the drivers' claims on an aggregate basis," Garden said.
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"If you're 46 and a high powered attorney on your feet all day litigating and having to run up and down stairs, you may choose surgery to get back to work sooner," said Sheth, who was not involved in the new study.
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The concern in these MDLs – which take care of defendants' desire for global resolution and lead counsel's desire to be fairly rewarded – is that individual MDL plaintiffs may wind up worse off than they would be if they were litigating one-off cases.
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A Senate staffer told The Hill earlier this week there was concern about re-litigating long-settled military issues, such as the 85033 repeal of "don't ask, don't tell," the law barring gay and lesbian members of the military from serving openly.
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But the liberals who want to condemn Sanders seem more interested in re-litigating the Democratic primary than in addressing the real problem: that the party itself is willing to go squishy on abortion to win elections in red-to-purple areas.
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Sanders has been accused of re-litigating the primary in his criticisms of Perez, but the fact that Perez was pushed to run, while Ellison was quickly and easily unifying the left and center, seems like the move most predicated on primary scars.
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The DOJ Inspector General is not re-litigating evidence in the Clinton case in order to determine whether [the former Secretary of State] should have been prosecuted, nor is the IG working to determine whether Trump's campaign was colluding with the Russians.
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Republican lawyers are expected to go after Elias on Wednesday, particularly on whether he is making one argument in Florida that conflicts with one he is making in Arizona, where Democrats are also litigating similar laws on mail in ballots and signatures.
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Director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Washington legislative office Laura Murphy will lead the civil rights audit and advise Facebook, while Washington law firm Relman, Dane & Colfax, which specializes in litigating housing and employment cases, will audit Facebook's internal operations and services.
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"Although the unions are not able to pursue their preferred systemwide challenge through the scheme, they can ultimately obtain review of and relief from the executive orders by litigating their claims in the context of concrete bargaining disputes," the circuit court wrote.
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For the past year, Pacific Legal Foundation had been litigating a constitutional challenge to these laws on behalf of restaurateur Chef Geoff Tracy, suing to strike down the laws as violating the First Amendment right of entrepreneurs to speak truthfully about their business.
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"Litigating the details of those statements could be very embarrassing and might lead to disclosure in litigation of information that Trump would prefer not to disclose," said Rip Verkerke, the director of employment and labor law studies at University of Virginia Law School.
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I get frustrated when progressives with roots in Judaism spend more time litigating whether attention to poverty is a "Christian value" as important as preserving the 20th-century family than they do considering whether they really want progressive "Christian values," or something else.
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It seems unlikely to me that either DOJ or FHFA, which has independent litigating authority, will ask the Supreme Court to look at the 5th Circuit's en banc ruling, even putting aside the appellate remand of shareholders' APA claim to the trial court.
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Ms. Piscitelli, who is a co-author of a manual on the law but was not involved in litigating the case, said it could be very difficult to prove hiring discrimination because applicants receive little indication of why they weren't offered a job.
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And after litigating the case of Michael Jackson on specials in 2004 and 2017, he does so again here, telling his audience not to watch the recent HBO documentary, "Leaving Neverland," in which two men who accused Jackson of sexual abuse speak out.
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HAMBURG (Reuters) - In a meeting that ran longer than either side had planned, U.S. President Donald Trump and Russia's Vladimir Putin discussed alleged Russian meddling in the U.S. election on Friday but agreed to focus on better ties rather than litigating the past.
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Writing briefs and spending long hours on the phone and trying to determine the best way to make an argument is the real work of litigating, even though Hollywood's movies about lawyers often gloss over the more mundane aspects of the job.
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"The Democrats' impeachment inquiry, led by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, is merely the outgrowth of their obsession with re-litigating the results of the 2016 presidential election," the Republican staff of the House Intelligence, Oversight and Foreign Affairs committees wrote.
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"The complaint rests on a host of novel and fundamentally flawed constitutional premises, and litigating the claims would entail intrusive discovery into the President's personal financial affairs and the official actions of his Administration," the Justice Department said in a court filing.
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The case has wound itself to the Supreme Court, and Khosla, who co-founded Sun Microsystems, says he is willing to keep litigating this for the rest of his life — if he wins, he could reshape the laws that govern 1,100 miles of California shore.
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If Brett Kavanaugh, whom President Donald Trump nominated this week, joins the Supreme Court, a conservative court established by a president and Senate who were elected with less than half the two-party vote may end up litigating the fairness of the voting system.
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The answer to that question would be more important and revealing than re-litigating why the party supported him in 1992 and 1996, and even after he lied under oath -- and on national TV, wagging his finger at us -- during the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
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U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman said Sotheby's failed to establish that the case did not belong in his court because Rybolovlev was already litigating in Switzerland, where much of the key evidence and many witnesses were located, and that principles of international comity justified dismissal.
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Washington spends way too much time re-litigating the past — witness how much time has been devoted to debating old trade deals, the 2010 Affordable Care Act or the 1980s Reagan tax cuts — and has increasingly budgeted and legislated in a backwards looking way.
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But as fiduciaries, he said, trustees ought to consider whether the bankruptcy estate is better off monetizing a piece of its potential recovery to assure itself of liquidity to keep litigating and some cash for creditors even if it ends up losing the case.
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Trump takes office in 30 days, but he's spent a hefty chunk of his transition re-litigating the election, and he's spent most of that time hitting pundits for rightfully pointing out that he lost the popular vote by more than two million votes.
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Cargill and ADM, major exporters of corn to China, may have sensed Syngenta was not faring well at trial and decided they might be able to recover more if they continued litigating, Carl Tobias, a professor of law at the University of Richmond, said.
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"One of the things I was not prepared for as a business reporter was actually litigating the personality of Robert E. Lee," McGirt said, referencing her November 1 column responding to White House Chief of Staff John Kelly's defense of the oft-excused Confederate general.
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Description: "Inspired by the life of Isaac Wright Jr., 'For Life' is a fictional serialized legal and family drama about a prisoner who becomes a lawyer, litigating cases for other inmates while fighting to overturn his own life sentence for a crime he didn't commit."
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SCHIFF: Well, I think there's certainly merit to the idea that we may get a quicker ruling from a chief justice in a Senate trial, if it ever came to that, than we would get by going months and months on end litigating the matter.
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"I think there's certainly merit to the idea that we may get a quicker ruling from a chief justice in a Senate trial, if it ever came to that, than we would get by going months and months on end litigating the matter," he said.
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Here, in contrast, the change in litigating position to argue that the entire ACA must be thrown out was made solely by political advisers, and over the express objections of all of the key legal advisers, including the attorney general and the White House counsel.
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Earlier this month, I told you about 12,123 Uber drivers who went to federal court with claims that Uber, after litigating for years to force drivers to pursue wage-and-hour claims in individual arbitration, was refusing to pay the requisite fees to launch their cases.
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Despite a few exceptions - including a farmer who successfully sued Pakistan's government in 2015 - mitigating rather than litigating against climate change is favored in poorer countries where legal success is less likely, according to Cosmin Corendea, a legal expert at the United Nations University in Bonn.
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This and subsequent articles will focus on transactional issues, but litigation could arise within any of the five areas above and in that unfortunate event you should seek a lawyer (or team of lawyers) focused on litigating within the specific area(s) relevant to your lawsuit.
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The upshot of the decisions is that Rosenbaum can continue to obtain discovery to back his assertions that Morgan & Morgan misled prospective clients who believed the law firm running the ads – and not some other firm they hadn't heard of – would be litigating on their behalf.
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Through Tuesday night, the tax-focused House Ways and Means Committee and President Donald Trump were still litigating fundamental aspects of the tax bill — the exact nature of the corporate tax rate cut, and which tax deductions they will reduce or repeal to pay for the cuts.
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Purdue has sometimes claimed to have never "lost a case" related to OxyContin, but it's more accurate to say that the company has never allowed a case to go to trial, often settling rather than litigating the culpability of the company—and the Sacklers—in open court.
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Forty-two Russian Olympians have been banned for life as a result of the doping scandal, a punishment that the majority of those athletes have been litigating before the top international sports court this week, hoping to be exonerated before the Games open on Feb. 9.
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Frank: Let's stop the litigating there and end on a point where I'm guessing we have agreement: This latest chapter of the Trump presidency, like everything else about it, has brought the schisms of contemporary America and contemporary politics into the boldest, sharpest, scariest relief imaginable. No?
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The more that it looks like the government's litigating position reflects nothing more than the political whims of the White House, the less credibility the Justice Department will have going forward in all litigation -- not just in high-profile cases like the dispute over the ACA.
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Even before Thursday's hearing, the plaintiffs' lawyers — who said they would waive their fees after years of litigating the case — were surprised and disappointed that Ms. Simpson had objected to the settlement, fearing that it would delay payments to other students for months, if not years.
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In his Senate questionnaire, Gorsuch detailed his role that included spending a "substantial amount of time reviewing and editing trial and appellate court legal briefs and developing case strategy" as well as assisting "in managing the department's civil litigating components" His confirmation hearing is set to begin March 20.
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In the letter, which was sent to the heads of the litigating divisions, the group questioned what management planned to do to address the lack of diversity, and asked that they raise the issue with Acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker and "any future Attorneys General" as a priority.
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"This affirmation is especially important to our members in light of the Department's recent litigating position, which it volunteered 'in its capacity as the Nation's largest employer,' that Title VII does not protect against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity," the group's letter says.
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Jill Greenfield of Field Fisher represents several women who claim the disgraced movie mogul sexually assaulted them and is currently litigating against both Weinstein and his former studio, The Weinstein Company, in the U.K. "I have got a number of clients and the group is growing," Greenfield tells PEOPLE.
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The lawyers who won the Sciabacucchi case in Chancery Court argued that their victory was so significant that they deserved a $3 million fee – $1 million from each of the defendants whose charter provision was struck down – even though they'd spent fewer than 300 hours litigating the case.
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"It doesn't make a whole lot of sense for them to go ahead and execute five people while we're litigating the legality of the method they're using," Paul Enzinna, lead counsel for the seven plaintiffs in the case pending before U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan in Washington, told Reuters.
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Similarly, Wells Fargo used forced arbitration requirements, buried in the fine-print terms of its accountholder agreements, to prevent defrauded consumers from filing claims in open court, conducting discovery of the widespread nature of the problem, or litigating their cases through class actions that would have allowed everyone relief.
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"The previous persistent delays to the clean-up process clearly demonstrate that litigating Nigerian oil spill cases in the English courts does little to resolve the complex underlying security and community issues which can frustrate attempts to clean up areas impacted by oil pollution," an SPDC spokeswoman said.
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Ohio contended in its mandamus petition that Judge Polster, who has been pushing hard for settlements, is allowing MDL plaintiffs to capitalize on the leverage of the looming bellwether trial, to the detriment of state AGs litigating their own state-court cases against many of the same defendants.
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As you know, the commodification of mass torts reached previously unscaled peaks in the pelvic mesh litigation, with legal marketers – some of them law firms, some not – running television and social media ads and conducting telephone campaigns to find and screen clients, then referring cases to litigating firms.
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In recent years, evidently hoping for a change of heart on the federal bench, the Alliance Defending Freedom, an evangelical litigating organization, has taunted the I.R.S. with an annual "pulpit freedom Sunday," during which preachers take the pulpit to denounce the Johnson Amendment and express their political views.
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There remains significant debate about where the House will ultimately land, including concerns from some moderates who want the investigation to stay focused on allegations Trump used his office for political gain by pressing Ukraine to investigate Biden, instead of re-litigating the findings in the Mueller Report.
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"I think there's certainly merit to the idea that we may get a quicker ruling from a chief justice in a Senate trial, if it ever came to that, than we would get by going months and months on end litigating the matter," he told CNN last month.
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"The so-called quiz, applied to Puerto Rican drivers, bears a strikingly disturbing resemblance to the tests applied by segregationists to block voter registration of people of color," said Gerry Weber, a senior attorney with the Southern Center for Human Rights, which is litigating the case with the advocacy group, LatinoJustice.
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It wants a declaration that it is not responsible for Aetna's liability from the settlement notification disaster and a ruling that Aetna must pay KCC's costs – including the cost of litigating a pending class action in Missouri in which plaintiffs are trying to add both KCC and Gibson Dunn as defendants.
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The Federal Communications Commission does not have the authority to cap the cost of prison and jail phone calls within states, an appeals court ruled in a decision today, dealing a massive blow to inmates and their advocates who have spent years litigating caps on the cost of such calls.
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"Overall, this will be all about litigating the fix," said Andrea Murino, co-chair of Goodwin's antitrust group based in Washington D.C. "What DOJ wants when they come up with a remedy is an immediate and expansive competitive response - to substitute one company in for another without missing a beat."
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Donald Trump's strange campaign gets stranger Trump has spent the days since the Democratic convention litigating whether their son is a hero, and on Tuesday only moved onto an equally unhelpful news cycle: whether he supports House Speaker Paul Ryan, and the 2008 presidential nominee, John McCain, in their primaries.
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For Uber – and any future mass arbitration defendant - hoping to cut the cost of litigating thousands of individual arbitrations by resolving across-the-board concerns in one proceeding, the JAMS letter makes it clear that the arbitration service isn't going to bend its rules and overlook contract language to allow that.
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So even though the South Carolina nursing home chain Agape and the former employees who sued Agape under the False Claims Act both want to avoid a trial – and the Justice Department apparently has no intention of assuming the burden of litigating on its own behalf – the case will move on.
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"For the past several months we have been investigating in our committees and litigating in the courts, so the House can gather all the relevant facts and consider whether to exercise its full Article 1 powers — including a constitutional power of the utmost gravity of articles of impeachment," Pelosi said.
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CREW's answer is that Trump's situation has forced it to "divert essential and limited sources" from its regular government watchdog role and "will essentially be forced into the role of litigating and educating the public regarding (Trump's) Foreign Emoluments Clause violations," if a court does not stop him, according to the complaint.
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CREW argues it has standing because it has been directly harmed by Mr Trump's actions: investigating and litigating the president's constitutional violations constitutes "a significant diversion and depletion of its time, resources, and efforts"—money and time it normally spends policing campaign-finance and anti-corruption laws for lower-level officials and candidates.
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People close to Mr. Trump said that the coming weeks will be marked by an increased assault on the integrity of the inquiry itself as the White House tries to avoid litigating the facts of what took place between Ukrainian officials and Mr. Trump's loyalists, including Rudolph W. Giuliani, his personal lawyer.
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The government asked U.S. District Judge Edward Chen to dismiss the suit filed on its behalf, even though the former Gilead employees who brought the case back in 29 want to keep litigating – and even though the 29th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in 2017 that the whistleblowers' complaint met pleading standards.
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At two events in New York earlier Wednesday, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein criticized the slow pace of confirmation for senior Justice Department officials, noting Benczkowski was nominated to lead the criminal division nearly a year ago, and only two of the seven litigating components at the Justice Department have Senate-confirmed leaders.
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No matter how much I point out that Trump is trying to take away her health care protections by litigating to kill Obamacare, that his tariffs have made it harder to pay her bills, that he is the most repulsive and creepy man ever to occupy the White House, she holds firm. Why?
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And the last thing — given that the case has wound itself to the Supreme Court, and could upend one of California's most sacred promises to its citizens — is that Mr. Khosla is willing to keep litigating this for the rest of his life and has about $212 billion to spend on it.
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Likewise, if senators had asked Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg during her confirmation hearing if her long history litigating claims of gender discrimination would influence her judging, or if they had asked Chief Justice John Roberts whether his time working in the Bush administration would affect his decision making, no one would have blinked.
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And the last thing — given that the case has wound itself to the Supreme Court, and could upend one of California's most sacred promises to its citizens — is that Mr. Khosla is willing to keep litigating this for the rest of his life and has about $21982 billion to spend on it.
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In other words, when big funds believe there's real money at stake in a securities fraud case – as they sensed in the ARCP case, in which the company's former CFO has been sentenced to prison for lying to investors – they're going to protect their interests by filing and litigating their own suits.
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But as House Democrats have raced ahead, unveiling articles of impeachment on Tuesday, they lost interest in litigating Mr. Kupperman's case and asked the judge to dismiss it, leaving open the question of what relevance to the proceedings any decision may now have, or whether there is even still a dispute to settle.
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Given the difficulty of litigating a 36-year-old case, the risk of destroying the reputation of a man who may be innocent, and the partisan nature of the opposition—Democrats were against Mr Kavanaugh long before he faced allegations of sexual assault—should Republican senators confirm the president's nominee when the Senate votes?
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We were able to get her hormone therapy and access to cosmetics—but the government really fought to restrict her ability to grow her hair, not just by denying her request but by aggressively litigating against that claim, in ways that were inconsistent with positions the Obama administration took with respect to trans rights elsewhere.
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"The complaint rests on a host of novel and fundamentally flawed constitutional premises, and litigating the claims would entail intrusive discovery into the president's personal financial affairs and the official actions of his administration," the Justice Department argued in a 40-page petition to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
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Rather than re-litigating 2016 in your personal Twitter feed, do something else with your time, like watching this soothing video compilation of repetitive mechanical processes: Is it unfair of Clinton to refuse to say whether she would support Sanders if he won the nomination, as he did when she won it in 2016?
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A Boston College student litigating as John Doe pointed to these cases to challenge his one-year suspension for non-consensual sex, arguing that the college was required to allow him or his representatives an opportunity to pose questions in real time to his accuser, even if the questions were asked through a neutral investigator.
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Devoted primarily to re-litigating old skirmishes — against the unions, the Department of Education, and Mayors Bloomberg and especially de Blasio — Moskowitz dredges up old emails and hearings transcripts to win points in long-forgotten contretemps, and then, in an effort at intimacy, intersperses them with shallow yet grandiose anecdotes from her personal life.
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"The Center for Reproductive Rights will continue litigating against unconstitutional abortion restrictions because abortion is a fundamental right afforded to all Americans, and we're not going to sit idly by and allow unconstitutional abortion restrictions to go into law," Elisabeth Smith, the chief counsel of the Center for Reproductive Rights State Policy and Advocacy, told BuzzFeed News.
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Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) on Wednesday questioned why the Democratic party is still litigating the 2016 presidential primary between Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE and Sen.
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"Democrats are going to want to investigate and Republicans are going to say 'we've made the choice and this is our president' and so there's going to kind of be a re-litigating the 6900 election all over again," Conor Maguire, a senior strategist at the GOP campaign consulting firm WPA Intelligence said on Tuesday's broadcast of Hill.
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In the end, six prospective lead plaintiffs moved for appointment, including one shareholder whom Judge Wilson had previously rejected; an institutional investor that had not participated in the initial lead plaintiff contest; and a new investor group represented by the plaintiffs' firm that had been litigating the case for nearly two years, Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check.
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"At this point, it is fair to ask whether Uber's previous statements to the 9th Circuit about its desire to facilitate arbitration with its drivers were nothing more than empty promises to avoid litigating a class action," the drivers' lawyers said in a motion to compel arbitration that accompanied the drivers' petition for an order to compel.
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Litigating that pivotal moment is useless, but it is fair to say that, based on everything we'd seen from Halloween up to when Leonard left the game with his team up by 23 points in the Western Conference Finals opener, this Spurs team, and Leonard specifically, would've given Golden State a legitimate test had they been healthy.
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But Mr. Reece's online magazine is engaged in a broader re-examination of Southern identity that is playing out in a clutch of ambitious regional publications, some of them provocatively named — Garden & Gun, Scalawag — and all describing a multifaceted, multiracial future that seems to have already arrived, right alongside the incessant re-litigating of the past.
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"[I]n light of the passage of time and other considerations, such as the department's interests in moving past this litigation and building upon our cooperative working relationship with the committee other congressional committees, the department has decided that it is not in the executive branch's interest to continue litigating this issue at this time," Kadzik wrote.
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A review of the Justice Department's organizational chart by BuzzFeed News shows that women are in charge of several offices separate from the litigating divisions, including the Office of Legal Policy, which advises DOJ leadership on policy issues and works with judicial nominees; the Office of Public Affairs; the Office of Tribal Justice; and the Office of Violence Against Women.
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"Look, for me to get in the middle of litigating these things that are going on behind the scenes, that we find out about the next day -- I think it was explained by one of the campaigns as to what happened, I think you take them at their word for it and we move onto the next state," Priebus said.
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The probes come as green groups like the NRDC and the CBD have taken on major roles in lobbying and litigating against President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE and congressional Republicans' agenda.
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The probes come as greens like the NRDC and the CBD have taken on major roles in lobbying and litigating against President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE and congressional Republicans' agenda.
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What they're saying: "You have finite resources in terms of people power, so if you are spending all of your time litigating big mergers … there might be some investigations where decisions might have to be made about which investigations you can pursue," said Caroline Holland, who was a senior staffer in DOJ's Antitrust Division under President Obama and is now a Mozilla fellow.
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The next time you feel inclined to say anything catty about Donald Jr., remember that this is a guy who went to high school while his father was litigating an adultery crisis on the front pages of the New York City tabloids and that he was thwarted by family pressure from pursuing his chosen career as a bartender in Colorado.
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The American Civil Liberties Union, which represented the two women as well as a third young immigrant who was able to end her pregnancy after a court order in October, has asked the judge to allow the A.C.L.U. to continue litigating the abortion policy as a class-action lawsuit, which would seek to prevent the administration from stopping such abortions in the future.
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Ben SasseBenjamin (Ben) Eric SasseLive coverage: DOJ inspector general testifies on Capitol Hill FCC votes to bar use of its funds to purchase Huawei, ZTE equipment Senate approves stopgap bill to prevent shutdown MORE (R-Neb.) argued the fallout of the inspector general's report should be more focused on guarding against future election interference than re-litigating the events of 2016.
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But when the President demands that the Justice Department take an unreasonable litigating position for partisan political purposes, an attorney general who cares about the Justice Department's long-term credibility can refuse and be fired (such as then-Acting Attorney General Sally Yates, who refused to defend the first iteration of President Trump's travel ban), or he can -- and should -- resign.
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Read more: A formal impeachment inquiry has been launched: Here's everything we know about the whistleblower complaint and Trump's phone call with Ukraine's president"For the past several months, we have been investigating in the committees and litigating in the courts whether Congress can exercise its full Article I power, including the constitutional power of approval of articles of impeachment," Pelosi said at a news conference.
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To offer one concrete example: the county government of Broward, Florida, is a plaintiff in the multidistrict litigation in Cleveland (and, in fact, is proposed to serve as a class representative in talks with opioid defendants if the judge certifies a negotiating class); Florida's state AG, Ashley Moody, is meanwhile litigating a separate suit against many of the same defendants in state court in Pasco County.
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Even the immigration advocates who are litigating the lawsuit are stressing the fragility of Tuesday night's decision, and arguing it shouldn't take any pressure off Congress to pass a bill that would create some sort of permanent protection (or even full legal status, including the ultimate ability to apply for citizenship) for DACA recipients and those who will be eligible when they turn 15.
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The Justice Department lawyers who signed the cover letter to Judge Furman complained that along with the plaintiffs' motion for sanctions was the "near-simultaneous publication of an accompanying article in The New York Times" — as if news coverage of a public court filing cast a cloud over the propriety of the filing, rather than the documents' revelations casting a cloud over the propriety of the administration's litigating position.
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Jeff SessionsJefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsDOJ should take action against China's Twitter propaganda Lewandowski says he's 'happy' to testify before House panel The Hill's Morning Report — Trump and the new Israel-'squad' controversy MORE's involvement with these "significant litigated matters" that he initially alleged to have "personally handled" amounted to signing his name on a complaint and having his name added to any motions or briefs by the attorneys who were actually litigating the case.
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Legal dream team in white shirts and dark suits Right out of the gate, Mueller brought on three partners from his former law firm, WilmerHale, with significant litigating experience in high stakes cases: Aaron Zebley, who previously served as Mueller's chief of staff at the FBI; Jeannie Rhee, a former federal prosecutor and top official at the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel; and James Quarles, who worked on the Watergate investigation as a young prosecutor.
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As Rory Little wrote for SCOTUSblog, it is in the high court's benefit to provide as much specificity as possible: The Supreme Court takes cases on discrete constitutional topics so infrequently, and in so few cases, that an essential part of its role is to provide as much guidance as possible to assist lower state and federal courts in deciding, and thousands of lawyers in litigating, the thousands of cases they collectively confront on the topic every year.
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"In addition, in light of the passage of time and other considerations, such as the department's interest in moving past this litigation and building upon our cooperative relationship with the committee and other congressional committees, the department has decided that it is not in the executive branch's interest to continue litigating this issue at this time," Assistant Attorney General Peter Kadzik, head of the Justice Department's Office of Legislative Affairs, wrote in a letter to committee chairman Jason Chaffetz, a Utah Republican.
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In constitutional cases like these, as Rory Little wrote for SCOTUSblog, it is in the high court's benefit to provide as much specificity as possible: The Supreme Court takes cases on discrete constitutional topics so infrequently, and in so few cases, that an essential part of its role is to provide as much guidance as possible to assist lower state and federal courts in deciding, and thousands of lawyers in litigating, the thousands of cases they collectively confront on the topic every year.
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It provides: The attorney general -- or, in cases in which the attorney general is recused, the acting attorney general -- will appoint a special counsel when he or she determines that criminal investigation of a person or matter is warranted, and(a) That investigation or prosecution of that person or matter by a United States Attorney's Office or litigating division of the Department of Justice would present a conflict of interest for the Department or other extraordinary circumstances; and(b) That under the circumstances, it would be in the public interest to appoint an outside special counsel to assume responsibility for the matter.
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