The MPAA has since brought suit against him in his native Norway as well.
In February 2009, Markyl Lee and his company brought suit against Max International, alleging breach of contract.
The move was forced by a settlement with the Environmental Protection Agency, after environmental groups including the Sierra Club brought suit against TVA for air pollution.
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Of the 10, 000 remaining, only 3, 000 have actually brought suit.
The group of Christian fundamentalists who brought suit against San Jose's city government complained that Quetzalcoatl is indeed still worshipped--by New Age spiritualists and by Latino residents of San Jose with connections to Zapatista revolutionaries in southern Mexico.
As Maurna Desmond reported for Forbes in February 2008, the two telecommunications giants brought suit against one another on the same day in two different Texas federal trial court districts, with Motorola charging RIM with the violation of seven Motorola patents and RIM charging Motorola with the violation of nine RIM patents, along with the breach of the expiring license agreement and, for good measure, anti-competitive conduct.
Kamber, who brought the suit, says that it was in part the massive attention to the Netflix prize that brought clients to him and compelled some of them to seek an injunction against the announced follow-up.
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Koch brought the suit against another avid wine collector: onetime-billionaire Eric Greenberg, who was the consignor of all the wine in the Zachys sale.
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Gilbert countersued Searchlight and brought another suit against Longergan.
The Uruguay Round Agreements Act affords foreign works the same protections that American works receive overseas and imposes burdens on reliance parties, like the conductors, performers and publishers that brought the suit, that are consistent with the burdens their counterparts experience, according to the opinion.
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Workers Wayne Tomlinson, Alice Ballesteros and Gary Muckelroy brought the suit in 2004, arguing that by switching its defined benefit pension plan from a final average pay formula to a cash balance formula, El Paso set payments for older, longer-service employees at significantly lower levels.
"There was a huge incentive for the Southern lawyers to get a bigger piece of the pie for their clients so they'd have to share less money in fees with the Northern lawyers, " said Irving Cohen, attorney for the eight Northern steelworkers who originally brought the suit.
The next big test is the suit brought by the state of Washington in September.
Reynolds in a suit brought by the widow of a longtime cigarette smoker who died of lung cancer.
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And in 1998, he dared to take the stand himself in an antitrust suit brought about by the government.
Boies won, and later played a big role in defending IBM against a decade-long antitrust suit brought by the government.
With the backdrop of a civil suit brought on by the SEC against Goldman Sachs, executives from Goldman Sachs engaged cheerfully with attendees.
The ruling came in a civil suit brought by Democrats who were defeated in the 2002 elections for the Texas House of Representatives.
Soon he found himself facing charges in Italy and was named in an organised crime civil suit brought by 10 EU governments in the United States.
In June, a federal court will decide whether a suit brought against the NCAA by former athletes, including UCLA basketball player Ed O'Bannon, will be granted class-action status.
It would not be out of place to refer to the mess that Armstrong finds himself in as a massive metaphoric class-action suit brought about by disgusted onlookers.
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Downes' ruling came in a suit brought by the Wyoming Farm Bureau which was concerned that the program might set a precedent that would weaken protection for endangered species.
In e-mails that later became the centerpiece of a billion-dollar copyright-infringement suit brought by Viacom against YouTube, in 2007, both Karim and Chen advocated a laissez-faire response toward copyrighted content.
The suit brought Wednesday by the Department of Justice against BP and eight other companies is only the very beginning of a legal fight that will likely stretch on for decades.
As a defender, he helped IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people) ward off a long antitrust investigation, and successfully defended CBS in a libel suit brought by General William Westmoreland.
In January a jury trial began in the defamation suit brought by Dallas oil heir and real estate developer Hiram Walker Royall against Wright Gore III, whose family runs shrimp wholesaler Western Seafood in Freeport, Tex.
This suit is a response to an April 6 suit brought by Medinol alleging that Boston Scientific misappropriated intellectual property and submitted fraudulent filings to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in order to steal the company's business.
"The federal government continues to rely upon accounting gimmicks to address the concerns of religious nonprofits that do not qualify for the exemption, " said Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning, a Republican who brought an early suit against the requirement.
The potential list could include the suit brought by former Southern California assistant football coach Todd McNair, who claims the NCAA was "malicious" in its investigation into his role in the benefits scandal surrounding Heisman Trophy winner Reggie Bush.
Judge Laurence Zatkoff in the Eastern District of Michigan recently cleared the way for accelerated and wide-ranging discovery in connection with a suit brought by a Michigan Iraq war veteran, Kevin Murray, against the Treasury Department and Federal Reserve.
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