The sanction can be even worse for those litigants who are caught withholding critically important documents.
Eight of them involve business litigants or implicate issues that affect our free enterprise system.
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And beyond all of this, there have been two years of talks between these two litigants.
He said he was worried about "vexatious litigants" using the bill to target churches.
Many litigants borrow cash from family, or find a law firm to front the money.
To make up the funding shortfall, courts are imposing higher filing fees on litigants.
But judges are sometimes forcing litigants to hand over the passwords to their Facebook accounts.
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But in all he has almost certainly netted more than most other serial litigants.
In many ATS cases, both the underlying facts and litigants have few connections to the United States.
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"We've settled a lot, " says Mr. Dudley, ticking off agreements with federal agencies, prosecutors and private litigants.
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All of that ambiguity causes litigants to spend a lot of time and money fighting each other.
"I referred to death threats that I had received as a judge from dissatisfied litigants, " she said.
At that point, routinized court-endorsed people-plus-technology processes will enable all litigants to more readily get to the merits.
Today, they are derided, investigated and sued, blued and tattooed by government inquiries as well as private litigants.
Congress passed the Federal Arbitration Act in 1925 to encourage litigants to settle their disputes without resorting to full-blown litigation.
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The court could call its own neutral expert witnesses, rather than relying solely on the partisans hired by the litigants.
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In Egypt, Lebanon, Kuwait and elsewhere, litigants have tried to enforce traditional orthodoxies by appealing to literal readings of Islam.
For lawyers and litigants, the central lesson of this case is far more important than the fate of a few billionaires.
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It also means litigants may engage in wasteful forum-shopping efforts to find the judicial venue where the rules are most favorable them.
This should limit the pool of potentially successful litigants to younger non-smokers who did regular exercise and so on, says Mr Schwartz.
American Home has already paid 80% of the 50, 000 litigants, it says.
The youngest of the 20 litigants, Park insists honor is at stake.
As a result, would-be litigants in the U.S. already have access to excellent lawyers who they could not otherwise afford on their own.
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And one of the children of the original litigants came across while searching the Internet, and that's how they found out about it.
She briefly entered into court-ordered mediation with the main litigants, and has also countersued the grandchildren, alleging they have abused the legal system.
Accordingly, both the litigants and the defendant agency, operating in coffee bars and friendly courtroom shadows, avoid the harsh outside glare of oversight.
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As legislators and policymakers consider the many effects of NPE litigation, they must examine the full range of litigants, their motives, and their interests.
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John Jessen, president of Seattle-based Electronic Evidence Discovery, says his business helping litigants discover legal evidence doubled in 1997, and doubled again in 1998.
When he ordered litigants to turn over electronic documents, he asked them to produce the documents and turn them over to the other side.
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His virtually tearless admission of doping could likely have litigants lining up against him like cyclists at the start of the Tour de France.
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