Sentence examples for protected from litigation from inspiring English sources

The company has been protected from litigation since it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

The emergency manager, Kevyn D. Orr, had filed a motion asking that the city be protected from litigation as it proceeds with its historic bankruptcy filing, made last week.

The leader of the new effort, Senator John C. Watkins, said that in creating a sixth district in Southern Virginia with a black majority, the state would be protected from litigation under the Voting Rights Act.

The bench, headed by the master of the rolls, Lord Dyson, had been forced to consider whether the high court was right to dismiss as "spurious" the Saudi businessman's claim to have been protected from litigation because of his role as permanent representative to the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) for the Caribbean island of St Lucia.

The theory being was that if banks fulfilled all documentation requirements that the borrower would have the "ability to pay" and therefore the bank would be granted a "safe harbor" and thus be protected from litigation.

SeeqPod has always tried to avoid getting sued by pointing to the DMCA, and arguing that it merely indexes media from across the Internet (much of it not copyright-cleared) but does not effectively host any files and thus should be protected from litigation.

HudBay contended that the corporate veil protected it from litigation and argued that, even if they owed it to the plaintiffs to take precautions when operating its mine, the violence that occurred couldn't have been predicted by HudBay.

Mr. Buell argued that Andersen failed in its duties to protect investors and instead set about to try to protect itself from litigation.

Many states have good Samaritan laws that protect doctors from litigation if they help out in emergencies.

A member of a nonprofit board can buy a directors and officers policy to protect himself from litigation related to board decisions.

The legislation proposed by the governor includes exemptions for religious organizations and affiliated charities or nonprofit groups to protect them from litigation if they refuse to host or provide services for same-sex weddings.