Sentence examples for equity lawsuit from inspiring English sources

At 66, he is the only superintendent involved in a 1993 school equity lawsuit who's still on the job.

"I'd like it a lot lower," Mr. Klein said, adding that he was disappointed the governor had not moved faster to resolve the fiscal equity lawsuit.

Quinnipiac reinstated its women's volleyball team and dropped men's indoor track in response to last week's injunction issued in a gender equity lawsuit against the university.

Or so said the State Court of Appeals in 2003, and again in 2006, in response to the 1993 Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit seeking a fair share of state funding for the New York City schools.

At the same time, he has proposed using extra education money resulting from the Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit for new programs that would require hiring 15,000 to 20,000 additional teachers.

ACCURACY -- Although it is true that the city has not yet received the $23 billion that a court in the Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit determined the state owes the city, few people would agree that getting it is as simple as a single trip to Albany.

Private equity financing of lawsuits in certain corporate cases has existed for several years, although the idea of funding a legal campaign for a return on investment is still in its infancy.

The Campaign for Fiscal Equity, the group whose lawsuit led to yesterday's ruling, said that it would appeal to New York's highest court, the Court of Appeals, which could hear the case this fall at the earliest.

The equity committee, in its lawsuit, argues that the special committee -- which includes the company's chairman and interim chief executive, Erland E. Kailbourne, and board members, Dennis P. Coyle, general counsel of the FPL Group, and Leslie J. Gelber, president of the Caithness Corporation -- has been tainted by its ties to the Rigas family.

Community Legal Services has since filed a class action lawsuit against Equity Residential, saying that its late charges are "excessive" and "unlawful".

The private equity firms filed the lawsuits in New York and Texas on Wednesday.