The idea was to frighten her into quitting and giving up information — you braced someone who was too small to sue.
In the macro cell, there are K small cells and K mue macro user equipments (UEs), and in each small cell, there are K sue small cell UEs.
w_{i, j} = Delta_{i, j} + Delta_{j, i} (40) Table 3 Simulation parameters Macro cell 1 Macro UE (K mue) 12 Small cell (K) 12 Small cell UE (K sue) 1 per small cell Macrocell radius 500 m Small cell radius 50 m Cluster size (L) 2 4 6 Transmit stream (d) 2 Rx antenna (N ue) 4 Tx antenna macro BS (N mbs) 48 small BS (N sbs) 4 12 20 Channel coefficient i.i.d.i.d
In 2013, in a case involving small businesses suing American Express, the Roberts Court declared in remarkably dismissive language that the FAA "does not permit courts to invalidate a contractual waiver of class arbitration on the ground that the plaintiff's cost of individually arbitrating a federal statutory claim exceeds the potential recovery".
Some small business owners sue to stop the Internal Revenue Service's health care "power grab".
Most importantly, argues Peter Carstensen of the University of Wisconsin, it would be much easier for small producers to sue under the 1921 Packer and Stockyards Act.
The case became a rallying point for critics who argue that the federal patent system is riddled with abuse from small businesses that sue established companies to enforce patents for ideas that have never been developed into products.
Mr. Cremades said that one of the aims of the alliance was to put international pressure on national regulators in Spain and elsewhere to harmonize the rules and make it easier for small investors to sue without facing huge legal bills.
The CSRC now vows to focus on three areas: encouraging small investors to sue when defrauded, possibly in class-action suits; ensuring that all listed companies not just financial firms adopt better accounting standards; and "enforcement, enforcement and enforcement," says Cha.
The Bakers, along with two smaller shareholders, sued Goldman, claiming that the firm had, among other things, negligently advised them and misled them during the sale.
The world's five major record companies, and several smaller ones, sued iMesh in September 2003, one of a series of suits the record industry has brought against file-sharing networks.
