Sentence examples for collective litigation from inspiring English sources

One test case is collective litigation over cancer cases in a village where runoff from chromium mining has been a big problem.

Her recent work has focused on mass tort and consumer protection cases as vehicles for exploring class action and other collective litigation procedures.

Tierney proved especially adept in the role of honest broker in the middle of discussions about launching collective litigation, and in connecting staffers who were wrangling with the same problems.

Under this background, this collective litigation involving 10,357 people provided a typical case for examining the transformation of relationships between the state and individuals in contemporary China.

Collective litigation — when meritorious — usually results in settlement negotiations (or bargaining), a "collective" settlement agreement, an improvement in working conditions, and a reduction of industrial strife.

In fact, says her brief: the arbitration agreement, and the attendant "class-action waiver" that Uber asks employees to sign when they start their careers with the company, "takes away from these workers the concerted activity in which they are most likely to engage, and from which they are most likely to benefit: The right to engage in collective litigation".

M. Neil Browne and Andrea M. Giampetro-Meyer, Overriding Importance of Market Characteristics for the Selection of Pay Equity Strategies: The Relative Efficacy of Collective Bargaining and Litigation in the Nursing Industry, 11 Berkeley J. Emp.

The authority has benefited from ridership growth as a result of regional job gains, the report said, but remains vulnerable to the pace of the economic recovery, a looming round of collective bargaining and litigation challenging the constitutionality of its largest source of tax revenue.

We work in partnership with about 14 mainstream civil society organizations in our litigation collective, where we discuss strategies and develop arguments for the cases we have in court and those we intend to file.

Rev. Dr. Wendell Anthony, president of the Detroit NAACP, told The Huffington Post that, unlike previous lawsuits that have emphasized violations of the state's Open Meetings Act and concerns about collective bargaining, this litigation focuses on violations of voting rights and equal protection rights protected under the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

The international court of justice does not provide legal standing to indigenous individuals or collectives to pursue litigation against states and others.