This lays them open to especially damaging lawsuits from investors in assets affected by the rate-rigging, lawyers say, thanks to a quirk of American law.
But in the absence of a collective agreement, they could be deemed illegal, and expose the NFL to potentially damaging lawsuits.
Were you raped on the Microsoft campus or in the break room of a Walmart franchise, the corporation would by necessity take action, if nothing else to get ahead of potentially damaging lawsuits.
After Nisour Square, Blackwater was the subject of myriad investigations, prosecutions and damages lawsuits.
"People won't settle with us if they have to admit" wrongdoing, Ms. Schapiro said, because it opens them to liability in civil damages lawsuits.
ANNALS OF LAW about civil damage lawsuits in New York City...Tells about a lawsuit filed against the city by Darryl Barnes, who, in 1988, drew and fired a Tec-9 submachine gun on an off-duty police officer.
"No doubt that certain individuals will be harmed," he added, "but the cost of rooting out the bad apples through damages lawsuits is far worse" in that "it causes prosecutors to flinch in the performance of their duties".
Law firms that geared up for Year 2000 advice and a projected wave of damage lawsuits have used the expertise they gained to expand their work in electronic commerce, technology patent litigation and other areas once viewed as exotic.
Of these, 18 of 35 felony cases have been reduced to misdemeanor charges, according to Mr. Hermes, who said civil-damage lawsuits would be filed against the city alleging false arrest and other violations of constitutional rights.
By Jeffrey Toobin The New Yorker, April 21 , 2003P. 94 ANNALS OF LAW about civil damage lawsuits in New York City...Tells about a lawsuit filed against the city by Darryl Barnes, who, in 1988, drew and fired a Tec-9 submachine gun on an off-duty police officer..
The New Yorker, April 21 , 2003P. 94 ANNALS OF LAW about civil damage lawsuits in New York City...Tells about a lawsuit filed against the city by Darryl Barnes, who, in 1988, drew and fired a Tec-9 submachine gun on an off-duty police officer..
