Sentence examples for damaging trial from inspiring English sources

BP may well prefer a negotiated settlement of these damages to a long and potentially damaging trial.

In the end, Goldman decided to steer clear of a protracted and damaging trial by paying a $550 million penalty, which the S.E.C. went out of its way to describe as the largest ever against a Wall Street firm.

As had become the custom, the doors at the Clapham townhouse of the prominent economist Vicky Pryce were thrown open for the Saturday night post-Davos annual bash for economists, Treasury wonks and the politically well-connected despite the looming prospect of a damaging trial.

The probe could lead to another damaging trial, similar to the one in 2006 that saw Juventus relegated to Serie B and other major clubs suffer points reductions.

"The second damages trial is unlikely to take place, because in the meantime there will be appeals of what's [already] been decided so far, and at some point there will be a settlement," he told the Guardian.

The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in California, ruled in F.B.T.'s favor in 2010, overturning a jury verdict by a lower court, and the parties have been involved in a damages trial for more than a year.

"The record companies know and have known that their problems started well before LimeWire," Joseph Baio, LimeWire's lawyer, told the jury in his opening statement at the damages trial.

He set dates for two of those damages trials, Sept. 24 and Oct. 15.

The rate at which the CPS offers "no evidence" has also risen for burglary, robbery, fraud and forgery, and criminal damage trials.

Lawyers for the defendants in the coming damages trials — United and American Airlines; airport security companies; Boeing, the aircraft manufacturer; and others — say the lawsuits are misguided, that the aviation industry played by the government rules at the time, and that the terrorists knew what they could get away with.

Grier senior has frequently appeared as an expert witness in vaccine damage trials, attesting to their danger, despite the fact that the American Academy of Paediatrics refer to "numerous conceptual and scientific flaws, omissions of fact, inaccuracies, and misstatements" in his most-cited study.