Of course, it feels good to be Sue or a member of the product team.
But limiting Americans' right to sue or to collect millions in damages will not be easy.
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.
Corporations and lawyers, too, are examining whether they can sue Barclays or other banks for harm they have suffered.
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The California False Claims Act, like other state false claims laws, allows private citizens to sue companies or individuals that defraud state or local government entities.
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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.
For now, workers who are bullied based on their race, gender, nationality, or religion may sue under applicable Federal or State civil rights laws.
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In theory, Maine's probation officers still have a right to claim back pay under federal law but, like millions of others covered by this or other federal laws, they can no longer sue in either state or federal court if a state government infringes those rights.
These buy up patents and then license them or sue for infringement, rather than using the patents themselves.
You could curse the analysts, or sue them, as New York State and some private plaintiffs are doing.
Mr Bush is fond of saying that you cannot regulate or sue your way to clean air and water.
To level the playing field, Delaware requires those lawyers to first ask the company to sue itself, or prove that such a demand would be futile.
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Bensinger, who lives in the Chicago area, said the government must immediately sue the states or risk creating "a domino effect" in which other states follow suit.
The super-sized plaintiffs in such cases might just as well sue their cars or their couches or their televisions or their videogames--or any other product of an affluent society.
The 1965 act also gives the federal government and individual voters the right to sue any local or state government for infringing voting rights after the alleged violations have occurred.
In other words, if a given board member can never vote to fire, or sue, an investment manager but only to hire managers, what good is he to the organization?
Hence the accepted formula: Say as little as possible, get the person out of the office quickly, and have the individual sign a severance document agreeing not to contact clients or sue.
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If your refund request is not granted or the IRS fails to respond for six months, you can sue in district court or U.S. Claims Court.
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Interestingly on the same day that news broke that Google has pledged not to sue any open source users or developers using its patents, unless of course they sue Google.
It would, for example, make it easier to shut down websites containing pirated material, or to sue pirates in foreign countries for damages.
It seems to be set up to help defend its investors against so-called patent trolls, enterprising patent lawyers and small companies that sue but have few or no products for sale.
Juxtapose that provision against Part E which allows those who have been aggrieved under this new law to sue the violating agency or individual, and even provides for criminal punishment for improper collection activities.
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We do it so that we can sue them under either civil or criminal procedures.
Whether or not you sue the source of false information on your credit report, you can require the credit reporting agency to make your written dispute part of your credit report.
Tobias ideas -- allowing consumers to choose high-priced policies that let them sue for pain and suffering or policies that promptly compensate them for actual losses -- would give motorists better coverage at far less cost.
That bill, which is opposed by the Republican majority in the Senate who favor a less comprehensive measure, would allow medical patients to sue their health maintenance organization or insurance company in the event a coverage decision caused direct, documentable harm.
They are asking for several million euros in damages or say they will sue.
It would allow a property owner to sue the government if authorities damaged or destroyed his seized property.
During his years as Attorney General he was unrelentless in suing alleged offenders or in threatening to sue them.
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