"I thought this law was a way to use litigation to right wrongs and, if successful, to get a percentage, " says an unabashed Phillips, now 62.

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As a result, costs have become so inflated that they are now a common subject of litigation in their own right.

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Mr Lamb won the right to join the litigation to continue the fight started by Mr Nicklinson.

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Professor PAM KARLAN (Stanford University): You're now going to face lawsuits often brought after close elections by individuals who are denied the right to vote in circumstances where the litigation will have to be done quickly.

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Professor PAM KARLAN (Law, Stanford University): You're now going to face lawsuits often brought after close elections by individuals who were denied the right to vote in circumstances where the litigation will have to be done quickly.

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"I don't know if this is the death knell for Barclays' bid, but right now, if you put aside the litigation risk, you'd have to say RBS is out in front, " Oriel Securities analyst Mike Trippitt told Thomson Financial.

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Even Mr. Schumann, one of the many small business plaintiffs in the litigation, notes that he wouldn't necessarily begin tacking on surcharges for purchases with plastic right away.

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Right now, you have new games that build on the idea of old games without any litigation or just straight up copy them with a different skin without any litigation (unless assets were directly copied) and reviews always point this out.

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The Court in Astra USA explained that Congress not only declined to include third-party litigation as an enforcement mechanism in the PHS Act, it passed on a subsequent opportunity to create a private right when informed that HHS oversight of Medicaid pricing was sorely lacking.

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