In legal terminology, a complaint is any formal legal document that sets out the facts and legal reasons ( see: cause of action ) that the filing party or parties ( the plaintiff ( s )) believes are sufficient to support a claim against the party or parties against whom the claim is brought ( the defendant ( s )) that entitles the plaintiff ( s ) to a remedy ( either money damages or injunctive relief )

This was demonstrated by the 1987 judgment in the Weaver v NATFHE case in the UK, in which a black Muslim woman brought a complaint of workplace racist harassment against a co-trade unionist.

A complaint filed by the Electronic Privacy Information Center ( EPIC ) brought the RemoteSpy software to the FTC ’ s attention.

" Fans objecting to the comment brought the station's computer system to a standstill with thousands of emails of complaint.

On the dismissal ( 1966 ) by the International Court of Justice of a complaint brought by Ethiopia and Liberia against South Africa's continued presence in the territory, the U. N. General Assembly revoked South Africa's mandate.

* individual complaint — a suit brought by a person alleging that a law or any action of government violated his or her constitutional rights.

These children, known as L ' enfants de la Creuse, were brought to light in 2002 when Réunion exile Jean-Jacques Martial made a legal complaint against politician Michel Debré ( who had been the MP for Réunion at the time ) for " kidnapping of a minor, roundup and deportation ".

In 1215 this principle became enshrined as article 38 of the Magna Carta: " No bailiff for the future shall, upon his own unsupported complaint, put anyone to his law, without credible witnesses brought for this purposes.

These women were brought before the local magistrates on the complaint of witchcraft and interrogated for several days, starting on March 1, 1692, then sent to jail.

If the complaint was deemed credible, the magistrates had the person arrested and brought in for a public examination, essentially an interrogation, where the magistrates pressed the accused to confess.

Their conflict peaked on March 12, 1940, when Arnold's public complaint about increases in shipments brought a personal warning from Roosevelt that " there were places to which officers who did not ' play ball ' might be sent, such as Guam ," and got him banished from the White House for eight months.

The Guild and the staff of the Blade brought a complaint to the National Labor Relations Board and deliberated for a few weeks over this issue resulting in a ten to eight vote against unionization on July 20, 2001.

Later, however, the Supreme Court suspended his campaign for the presidency and agreed to hear a complaint brought by two right-of-center parties that the general was constitutionally barred from running for the presidency.

The charges were brought against Castlehaven on the complaint of his heir, who feared disinheritance, and were heard by the Privy Council, under the direction of Thomas Coventry, Lord High Steward.

The individual who brought the matter to FFRF's attention has filed a discrimination complaint with the Pennsylvania Human Relations and FFRF is only involved in an advisory capacity.

The suitability of the prison was finally brought to a head at the 1821 assizes in York, when an official complaint was made and an investigation begun.

During the school's investigation of the matter, another student brought a similar complaint to the school's attention.

Under the Equality Act 2010 section 27, an employer must also ensure that once a complaint is brought by a worker, even if it proves ultimately to be unfounded, that worker should not be victimised.

Sections 159 and 160 empower the Ombudsman to choose not to investigate a complaint brought to them, or to discontinue an investigation at any time.

" The trial commenced in summer 2000 with a jury dismissing all of the claims brought to trial by Wilson, but siding with one aspect of Akre's complaint, awarding Akre $ 425000 and agreeing that Akre was a whistleblower because she believed there were violations of the Communications Act of 1934 and because she planned on reporting WTVT to the Federal Communications Commission.

These children, known as L ' enfants de la Creuse, were brought to light in 2002 when Réunion exile Jean-Jacques Martial made a legal complaint against politician Michel Debré ( who organized the controversial displacement ) for " kidnapping of a minor, roundup and deportation ".

The first complaint before the panel was brought by the SPÖ, who claimed that the ÖVP had stolen one of their slogans.

Damphousse categorically denies the allegations brought against him and has also filed a complaint against his wife for assault, according to his lawyer.

Johann Marbach brought a complaint, adjudicated in favour of Sturm in 1575.

At a meeting of the Canadian Arab Federation on the day after the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal heard the complaint, Hall served on a panel along with Khurrum Awan, one of the student lawyers who helped file the complaint who testified at the BC Human Rights Tribunal against Maclean's, and Haroon Siddiqui, editor emeritus of the Toronto Star.

had made it easier for Dox to control the behavior of his police force throughout the 80 worlds under their protection ( a common complaint of his in the first series ), it also enabled the Star Conqueror ( a. k. a. Starro ) to wrest control of L. E. G. I. O. N.

Balling and his colleague Patrick Michaels took a complaint against the Star Tribune to the Minnesota News Council.

By a 9 – 4 decision the council " voted to sustain the complaint that the Star Tribune editorial unfairly characterized the scientific reputations of Patrick Michaels and Robert Balling.

At a meeting of the Canadian Arab Federation on the day after the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal heard the complaint, Hall served on a panel along with Khurrum Awan, one of the student lawyers who helped file the complaint who testified at the BC Human Rights Tribunal against Maclean's, and Haroon Siddiqui, editor emeritus of the Toronto Star.

Consequently, in February 1604, she filed a complaint against Dudley in the Star Chamber, accusing him of defamation.

The third complaint was that the Liberals had still not fulfilled their obligations under the Parliament Act 1911, the preamble of which said that the purpose was " to substitute for the House of Lords as it present exists a Second Chamber constituted on a popular instead of a hereditary basis ".

BAR lodged a complaint with the International Chamber of Commerce ( as permitted under F1's regulations ) but simultaneously lodged a complaint with the European Commission.

In the Protagoras, for example, when the sophist Prodicus accuses Socrates of making a mess of their discussion, Socrates accepts the complaint and calls himself a laughable doctor (" geloios iatros "), whose treatment not only does not cure the disease, it worsens it ( Protagoras 340e ).

The complaint accuses him of defamation and inciting violence against the ethnic group.

But Krim's complaint is important because not only in New York, but in other cities and in universities throughout this country, young and not, so young men at

More recently, the Associated Press reported in May 2011 that the Department of Education was investigating the University of Delaware ( UD ) for potential sex discrimination against men, following a complaint by members of the school's men's cross country and track teams.

< p > Society may give an exclusive right to the profits arising from them, as an encouragement to men to pursue ideas which may produce utility, but this may or may not be done, according to the will and convenience of the society, without claim or complaint from anybody.

Mohamed Mahmood Alessa and Carlos " Omar " Eduardo Almonte, two men arrested in June 2010 as they were bound for Somalia, and charged with terrorism and conspiring to kill, maim, and kidnap people outside the U. S., had simulated combat at an outdoor paintball facility in West Milford, New Jersey, according to the complaint against them.

The two men head for the American consul, but leave hastily without speaking to him when they find the skipper already there lodging a complaint.

Manstein's only wartime complaint about the actions of the Einsatzgruppen occurred in a 1941 letter to Einsatzgruppen D commanding officer Otto Ohlendorf ; since his soldiers were so helpful in assisting Ohlendorf's men to murder Jews, Manstein said, it was unfair that the SS insisted upon keeping all of the murdered Jews ' wristwatches for themselves instead of sharing with the Army.

Dudley pressed his complaint in letters to London, in which he complained of men " who love not the Crown and Government of England to any manner of obedience ".

Eirik on his side preached against the king and his men, and sent letters of complaint to the Pope, but in the short term his offensive weapons were few.

The two men were interviewed by officers but Virgin Airways made no formal complaint.

Adjudicator Eric Whist found that Firth treated the three men in an “ aggressive and demanding manner ” and that her decision to question them was “ tainted by considerations of their race and colour .” One of the complainants, Selwyn Pieters, had previously launched a racial-bias complaint against the standardized Law School Admission Test after his application to the University of Toronto law school was rejected based on his score, and has stated that " e know that racism in the criminal justice system, in the legal profession, is endemic.

One complaint that critics have of Iran's legal system ( and sharia law in general ) is that men receive twice as much blood money ( diyyeh ) as women do.

Revelations came after one of the young gay men laid a formal complaint to the New Zealand police.

Because of ' miners complaint ' as it was known, men who started mining at 16 would be lucky to reach 40.

In 1379 the men of Shropshire forwarded to parliament a complaint of the felonies committed by the men of Cheshire and of the Welsh marches, and declared the gaol of Shrewsbury Castle to be in such a ruinous condition that they had no place of imprisonment for the offenders when captured.

If anyone had any complaint, they had the right to approach these men and would have right to both life and limb on the condition that they asked the king a number of riddles that the king could not answer.

Their primary complaint is that their men are either consumed by work or hockey to the exclusion of their relationships.