"Of all the relics in city government, the board and its name conjure an era when county party machines delivered patronage and corruption through the county leaders' control of the borough presidents' votes on the board," said Richard D. Emery, a civil rights and liberties lawyer who filed the successful suit to eliminate the estimate board on behalf of several Brooklynites.
In the Netherlands, three different sources were available for estimating practice costs: The estimate by the body that establishes the fee rates for GPs (CTG-Zaio [ 22]) is much lower (60% of the total income) than the estimate calculated on behalf of the Dutch National Association of General Practitioners LHVV [ 23]; 93% of the total revenues in our calculations).
He framed the suit as a class action on behalf of an estimated 9,000 bloggers for the website.
Loto-Quebec, the agency that runs gaming in the province, is being sued for almost C$700m on behalf of an estimated 125,000 pathological gamblers.
The adjuster, working for Colonial Claims on behalf of Fidelity National Indemnity Insurance, estimated that the work on the floor joists would cost a mere $425, compared with the $2,927 projected by the contractor hired by the homeowners.
The civil lawsuit, which was filed in Minneapolis, seeks class-action status on behalf of an estimated 1,000 blacks who work or have worked in salaried positions as managers or professionals in the last six years.
The civil suit, which seeks class-action status on behalf of an estimated 7,000 auto shops in California, asks for a court order to stop the suspected conspiracy and monetary damages that could be tripled under antitrust law.
One of the first to appear was Ramsey Clark, the former United States attorney general, who spoke on behalf of the estimated 1.5 million Gypsies who perished during World War II.
During a speech in Albany at the convention of the New York Statewide Senior Action Council, a nonpartisan advocacy group, Mrs. Clinton promised to fight on behalf of the estimated 64,000 New Yorkers on Medicare who she said were in danger of being dropped by their health maintenance organizations.
A report issued in February by the inspector general of the Federal Housing Finance Administration, which oversees Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, estimated that the legal fees paid on behalf of Mr. Raines and the other executives totaled $97 million to that point, of which the government had paid approximately $37 million.
