He held back on potentially huge settlements which may explain why some claimants decided to opt out and sue and bolstered small ones.
He singled out Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood, who moved to sue insurance companies for not paying out claims for flood damage caused by Katrina.
It turns out Ray knows Sue, the proprietor of our little slice of Puerto Rican rain forest.
With so-called clawback suits, Picard has also started to sue Madoff victims who took out more from the Madoff Ponzi scheme than they put in.
The Burlington Free Press reports on a comic confrontation among securities lawyers as they try to figure out how to sue Green Mountain Coffee Roasters over its highly caffeinated stock-price movements.
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Some of these people do what we expect of them: They run for office, pass legislation, start a business, get hired or fired, commit a crime, make an arrest, get in accidents, hit a home run, overthrow a government, fight wars, sue an opponent, put out fires, prepare for hurricanes, and cavort with people other than their spouses.
Not to mention Texas MP3 Technologies, which came out of nowhere to sue Apple, Samsung, and SanDisk recently.
Where are we really if every time kids misuse technology, parents sue, resulting in companies paying out settlements and only marginally improving the technology in question?
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On Tuesday - the day funds at the garden ran out - finance minister Sue Essex offered the garden money to keep it open for a month following a meeting of the trustees.
In other words, there are a lot of people out there who could potentially sue them.
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Laster expresses some support for lawyers who sue over mergers, saying they are out to make money but can also serve as watchdogs over management.
If, for instance, Muris carries out a veiled threat to sue newspapers or television stations in an attempt to force action, that would raise First Amendment concerns.
That made it possible for plaintiffs to sue employers not just for being singled out and victimised because of their sex, but simply for being offended by other employees' behaviour.
As things currently stand, if benefits are not paid as agreed or they are flat-out denied, you can sue the insurer for bad faith, which is something they do not take lightly given the treble damages and other punitive damages they might incur.
The Cairo government claims the head was taken out of Egypt illegally and is poised to sue for it.
Gou envisions a fully-automated (and presumably almost employee-free) component factory inside of five years, has qualms about expanding his manufacturing presence in America ("I don't want to spend time having people sue me every day"), and pays executive bonuses out of his own dividends to protect the company's bottom line... so yeah, he's quite the industrialist.
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Sue and James Schofield, from Rhoswiel near Oswestry, said they found out after checking the result on a mobile phone app after a meal with friends.
"Because I wouldn't fight, I wouldn't sue them, I'd listen, " he said, offering to speak out about doping in the future.
"They grabbed shovels out of the shed and they said that they needed shovels, " resident Sue Zoccoli told CNN affiliate KARE.
Last Monday, Sue Akers, the Metropolitan Police official overseeing the U.K. investigations, laid out accusations of "a culture at the Sun of illegal payments, " including bribes to policemen and other U.K. government officials.
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In a controversial move that Picard has long advertised, Picard has also recently started to sue tens of individual Madoff investors in so called-clawback suits, alleging these investors took out more from the Madoff Ponzi scheme than they put in.
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Lego builder Eric Steenstra built a fully functional go-kart made entirely out of Lego bricks, and in an inspiring story, artist and wheelchair user Sue Austin created a self-propelled underwater wheelchair that allows her to glide through the sea.
An editorial in the same journal points out that some patients with impaired eyesight as a result of NAION have reportedly decided to sue Pfizer, the manufacturers of Viagra.
But many cases are settled, and companies can try to figure out how much they want to spend on, say, depositions while trying to prepare themselves to sue or settle.
In Comcast, lawyers are trying to sue on behalf of 2 million Comcast customers in Philadelphia, accusing the company of scheming to raise rates by buying out competitors or swapping territories with them to build dominant market share.
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