Sentence examples for single plaintiff from inspiring English sources

Sea change does not occur with a single plaintiff or advocate.

Proponents will no doubt use enormous punitive awards, like the $28 billion awarded last month by a Los Angeles jury to a single plaintiff in a tobacco lawsuit, as a rallying cry.

If the government has frozen a rogue nation's assets, for instance, it may want to use that property as leverage to achieve a foreign policy objective rather than handing hundreds of millions of dollars of it over to a single plaintiff and his lawyers.

But the three Clinton-appointed judges said the two cases were "quite different" because the files matter was a class action that accused the White House and the F.B.I of a broad pattern of abuse, while the Tripp case involved a single plaintiff and one incident.

Mr. Frey said this had allowed a single plaintiff's case to be turned into "a one-way class action in which Philip Morris was exposed to global punishment by the jury without any of the protections of a class action".

Meaning Schrems is the single plaintiff — but would later redistribute any damages to everyone else.

To back up his legal theory that the lawyer for the single-biggest plaintiff should get the nod, he asked his other client, Amalgamated Bank, to step down, and the bank, with only $10 million in losses, agreed.

A lawyer for the company, Theodore J. Boutrous Jr., said a single class-action plaintiff should not be allowed to sign away money that might be owed to other members of the class.

One plaintiff, single parent Omary Rodriguez-Fuentes, received 29 truancy tickets over three years, totaling almost $7,000.

Nor does it resolve the threat to copyright protections posed by other kinds of file-sharing services, like Gnutella, that do not create a Web site that provides a centralized index of available files and therefore present no single defendant for plaintiffs to challenge.

Wal-Mart argues that its female employees are too disparate to make up a single class of plaintiffs, that they are spread out over 170 job classifications, and are not being controlled by one corporate policy, but by the actions of individual store managers at several thousand stores.