Construction of the project is currently on hold as litigation resulting from Kaleikini v. Yoshioka court case bars continuation of the project until the City and County submits a complete archeological survey to the State Historic Preservation Division for the entire line.
"We're now in chapter one or maybe chapter three of a longer book," Washburn said, noting that the energy industry was unhappy with the level of restrictions outlined in the plans that would likely result in litigation from them as well as environmentalists.
Banks face investigations and potential litigation from private investors as well as state attorneys general and also from the Federal Housing Finance Agency, which oversees the mortgage financing giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
But there's a legal snag there as well: litigation born from a 1997 court case about the mistreatment of unaccompanied minor immigrants known as the "Flores settlement" mandates that the government release children who are held in family detention after 20 days.
Seasoned Texas litigators like Brent W. Coon, who fought BP over the 2005 plant explosion in Texas City, are likely to be deeply involved, as will experts in mass tort litigation from around the country who have taken part in enormously complex suits involving tobacco, pharmaceuticals, accelerating Toyotas and defective Chinese drywall.
This specialization covers forms-based practice as well as litigation.
The SEC came down hard on the CPAs, as did the courts, which were flooded with litigation from angry investors.
Even with dozens of players sidelined with concussions this season and the heightened awareness of the brain damage caused by repeated blows to the head, Bettman did not seem concerned about facing litigation from former players as the N.F.L. has.
The basic idea here is to give startups that join the program ownership of a selection of patents from Google's and Intertrust's portfolio that they can then use as a deterrent against potential patent litigation from established players in their fields.
The fear of ill consequences for residents or litigation from the family was reported as impacting on decision making by doctors [ 18, 22].
