One alleged example has come to light in a private lawsuit, filed against Google by Skyhook Wireless Inc.
The private lawsuit reached the Supreme Court after two years of legal wrangling, and the White House won a temporary victory.
The private lawsuit has been spectacularly unsuccessful to date and Apple has quickly retreated from practices concerning Adobe and content publishers before any government investigation could pick up much steam.
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The evidence that surfaced in that case, as well as an ongoing private class-action lawsuit that followed, showed Mr. Jobs as a prime mover behind that antipoaching agreement.
The lawsuit has been filed by private citizens who considered the outcome from the 1990 agreement only a deal between Texaco and the Ecuadorian government, and not between the company and area residents.
The federal jury ruled in March in favor of Cara Munn in her lawsuit against The Hotchkiss School, a private school in Lakeville.
The federal jury in Bridgeport ruled in favor of Cara Munn, 20, in her lawsuit against The Hotchkiss School, a private school in Lakeville.
Most intelligent people understand that a lawsuit by a government body against a private group for its excercie of free speech will likely not go over well with the voters (or courts).
The New York Times had a big scoop recently on a lawsuit in Boston that accuses some of the biggest private-equity firms including Bain Capital, TPG and KKR of conspiring to keep takeover prices low during the leveraged-buyout boom from 2003 to 2007.
In his lawsuit, Mr Pfeifer argues that the city can take over private land only if it sees fit to create a park.
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Not a week goes by without one of these financial institutions agreeing to pay a huge fine, settle a lawsuit charging fraud, be sued, blued and tattooed by a myriad of private plaintiffs, or by regulatory organizations concerning a broad sweep of allegedly activities that together give a sordid portrait of the global financial system.
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