They also "exerted an enormous litigation pressure, risk, leverage and incentive for BP, through the G.C.C.F., to try to settle its liabilities, in advance of trial," they wrote.
In 1995, with litigation pressure growing on tobacco companies, RJR Nabisco sold a minority stake in Nabisco Holdings to the public.
Regardless of how either case is resolved, Philip Morris and other tobacco companies will remain under intense political and litigation pressures.
By 1991, after the trust had paid out nearly $800 million, Judge Jack B. Weinstein of Federal District Court in Brooklyn, who was overseeing Manville-related litigation, pressured the trustees to step aside.
If the claim can go to the jury, and can't be quickly and comparatively inexpensively disposed of on a motion to dismiss, then the expense and risk of litigation pressures defendants to settle, even if a jury might eventually do the right thing after hundreds of thousands of dollars in fees are spent.
The litigation pressures on UK maternity staff should not be underestimated - obstetrics and gynaecology accounted for 21% of cases reported to the NHS Litigation Authority NHSLAandand 51% of the total value of claims paid from April 1995 to March 2008 [ 33].
The concerns about perinatal outcomes coupled with litigation pressures have also led to the introduction of stringent measures in most developed countries based on the available evidence [ 13, 14].
Work around how services revise and review litigation pressures on maternity care staff is urgently needed if multi-professional working, confidence with respective roles and support for normal labour and birth are to be promoted in line with current maternity service policy [ 3].
In the past year, Sea Shepherd has become mired in litigation, diplomatic pressure, I.R.S. audits, and Interpol notices, and Animal Planet decided that, instead of placing its own crew on Sea Shepherd ships, it would stitch together episodes from footage that the activists shot of themselves.
In addition, protest-supported demolition litigation brings pressure to the courts, which in turn pushes the courts to develop coping strategies to constrain the housing demolition authorities (He 2014).
Opponents quickly outlined a multi-pronged battle plan calling for litigation, political pressure and demonstrations aimed at derailing construction of the project, intended to deliver more than 800,000 barrels of oil per day from Canada to Nebraska. .
