In turn, providing parents with a medical explanation may serve to prevent many lawsuits from being filed in the first place.
According to a recent survey conducted by a coalition of civil society groups, more than two million information requests were filed in the first two and a half years after the law's inception.
According to a recently released study by Navigant Consulting, there were 607 sub-prime related cases filed in US federal courts at the end of June — 310 were filed in the first six months of 2008 — more than the 297 total cases filed during the whole of 2007.
Not far away, in Syracuse, a prominent assistant basketball coach, Bernie Fine, has been dismissed after a third accusation of child sexual abuse, but no criminal charges can be filed in the first two cases because the statute of limitations has run out.
Some 327,000 gripes were filed in the first half of 2006.
Interestingly, according to the Lawsuit Reform Alliance of NY, the past year has seen an increase in ADA Title III federal lawsuits filed against wineries and other small businesses 4,965 suits were filed in the first six months of 2018, more than half of the 7,663 suits filed in 2017.
In fact, although the General Accounting Office reports that more than 30,000 bankruptcies were expected the year Chapter 12 went into effect, only 8,500 were filed in the first two years".
Arguing for the charges to be dismissed in a motion filed this month, Geragos said a second trial "would constitute harassment, be a burden to the defendant and a waste of judicial economy". Geragos said he was pleased by the judge's decision but questioned why the case -- which originally leveled six felony charges against Rosby -- was filed in the first place.
If a duplicate copy for a third party is the sole copy in the collection, it is filed by the original author; if there is indeed a duplicate copy, it is filed in the third party's folder.
