Since Common Cause filed a lawsuit in federal court challenging the constitutionality of the Senate's filibuster rule, some commentators have labeled our litigation "dead on arrival".
In recent years, claimant lawyers, led by Newcastle-based lawyer Stefan Cross, have unleashed a tidal wave of equal pay litigation on our employment tribunals funded on "no win, no fee".
In a statement, chairman and chief executive Jamie Dimon, said: "We are pleased to have made progress on our control, regulatory and litigation agendas and to have put some significant issues behind us this quarter.
This is based on our view that successful litigation, especially if it involves a class action, could result in awards to plaintiffs that are significantly larger than the likely regulatory fines".
Just after it was introduced this session, Missouri House Speaker Tim Jones has stated opposition to a non-discrimination law stating last week, "I'm not in favor of creating more protected classes and encouraging more litigation on our Missouri employers and job creators," which effectively staves off the likelihood of MONA passing in the very near future.
For the same period this fiscal year, it spent more than 17 times as much–$11.5 million–on litigation.
"Based upon what we're seeing, we believe that's where we need to be focusing our resources, on litigation," Graves told Reuters in an interview.
"We will settle that before we do an I.P.O., and we are confident in our legal position on that litigation," said Alan Marks, an eBay spokesman.
Whatever the truth is, in our subsequent report on merger litigation compiled looking at statistics for 2011, we found that Delaware was beginning to draw back this merger litigation.
