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 )

In a civil case the plaintiff sets forth its allegations in a complaint, petition or other pleading.

This is the concern of the Crown, for the sake of orderly administration of justice, but it is a private complaint which sets the Crown in motion ".

An answer is a pleading filed by a defendant which admits or denies the specific allegations set forth in a complaint and constitutes a general appearance by a defendant.

The complaint put forth by the investment banks was of increasingly onerous regulatory requirements — in this case, not U. S. regulator oversight, but European Union regulation of the foreign operations of U. S. investment groups.

It involved the bringing forth of witnesses who would swear under oath, to God that the facts alleged in the writ or bill of complaint were true.

The complaint should contain all relevant information to the event or events that have taken place, including a chronological factual account of the events themselves, the identifying features of the victim ( name, date of birth, nationality and so on ), as well as the state involved, and, finally, what steps have been taken by the victim to exhaust all domestic remedies available to him or her.

It is also advised that any additional documents ( such as domestic court decisions and any relevant municipal laws ) are provided to the Committee as part of the complaint.

This is also a time to document racial or cultural issues that are relevant to the presenting complaint.

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Usually this is done by sending a copy of the complaint along with a cover letter referencing the relevant insurance policy or policies and demanding an immediate defense.

The complaint also revealed that Minkow had sent his allegations to the FBI, SEC and IRS, and that the three agencies found his claims credible enough to open a formal criminal investigation into Lennar's practices.

Janklow's complaint, referring to the statement by Banks about rape, " cited a 1975 letter from Philip Buchen, head of the Office of Counsel to the President of the United States, to the Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, saying that three Federal investigations found the allegations against him ' simply unfounded.

McAfee consented, without admitting or denying the allegations of the complaint, to the entry of a Court order enjoining it from violating the antifraud, books and records, internal controls, and periodic reporting provisions of the federal securities laws.

Then the judge can sustain ( rule in favor of ) a demurrer on the basis that the complaint's date-related allegations indicate it was filed too late (" the statute of limitations has run "), unless the plaintiff can show a typographical error ( a so-called " scrivener's error ") occurred in the drafting of the complaint.

In legal terms, the demurring party asserts that the complaint or counterclaim does not amount to a legally valid claim, even if the factual allegations contained in the complaint or counterclaim are accepted as true.

In 1997, Lawrence's family registered a formal complaint with the Police Complaints Authority ( PCA ), which in 1999 exonerated the officers who had worked on the case of allegations of racism.

Almost as soon as he was elected, he was required to deal with the fallout from the family of murdered Eltham teenager Stephen Lawrence registering a formal complaint with the Police Complaints Authority, with the police officers in question facing allegations of racism.

In lieu of the allegations against Crawford, Bertuzzi filed a third-party complaint against his former coach on March 3, 2008.

On July 18, 2005 the Nevada Commission on Ethics concluded insufficient cause for a hearing and recommended the allegations be dismissed, clearing Goodman of the ethics complaint regarding his name listed as " Of Counsel " to Goodman Law Group.

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

Upon hearing the allegations, DeLeo expressed amazement at her complaint to reporters.

Peregrine, without admitting or denying the allegations of the complaint, agreed to a partial settlement.

The General Counsel does not have to prove that the allegations in the complaint are well-founded, but only that he has some evidence, together with an arguable legal theory, to support his claims.

" While a complaint attacked by a Rule 12 ( b )( 6 ) motion to dismiss does not need detailed factual allegations, a plaintiff's obligation to provide the grounds of his entitlement to relief requires more than labels and conclusions, and a formulaic recitation of the elements of a cause of action will not do.

Factual allegations must be enough to raise a right to relief above the speculative level, on the assumption that all the allegations in the complaint are true ( even if doubtful in fact ).

The allegations were investigated by the Clerk of the Parliaments Michael Pownall following a complaint by the Sunlight Centre for Open Politics.

On 26 June it became apparent that she would be facing a Parliamentary inquiry into these allegations under John Lyon, the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, following a formal complaint thought to be from a constituent.

To reduce the number of purportedly frivolous Rule 10b-5 lawsuits that survive motions to dismiss, the PSLRA raised the pleading standards ( the specificity and strength of the factual allegations that must be alleged in the plaintiff's complaint ) in three specific ways.

According to Atwater's complaint ( allegations, previously supported by witnesses at the scene, that the court also presumed to be true for its purposes ), Turek screamed at Atwater about the seatbelts, frightening her children.

When a PPP complaint is properly submitted to the OSC, the agency investigates the allegations.

" One of these commercials, featuring Mr. T crashing through a wall on the back of a technical vehicle before firing Snickers bars at a speed walker wearing tight-fitting yellow shorts, was pulled by Mars following a complaint by the U. S .- based group Human Rights Campaign, despite the fact that the advert had never been shown outside the U. K.

Baker's complaint was that Tennessee had not in fact redistricted since the census of 1901.

A letter from the Amarna palace archives dated to Year 2 — rather than Year 12 — of Akhenaten's reign from the Mitannian king, Tushratta, ( Amarna letter EA 27 ) preserves a complaint about the fact that Akhenaten did not honor his father's promise to forward Tushratta statues made of solid gold as part of a marriage dowry for sending his daughter, Tadukhepa, into the pharaoh's household.

During the school-conducted hearing on her complaint, Morrison admitted having sexual contact with her despite the fact that she had twice told him " no.

Only the verified complaint that Olson had filed and the newspaper issues themselves were entered as evidence, and the defendants did not try to argue that the Saturday Press did not fit the definition under the statute, or that their published stories were in fact true.

However, Ms Dunlop lodged a complaint with the Press Complaints Commission, and the Daily Mail issued a clarification that the recently established lobbying company was in fact dormant during the incident.

Despite the fact that, according to a witness quoted in the criminal complaint, Barkus had been drinking scotch and wine at a lakeside restaurant that night, Rehberg later said he ' was surprised to learn the results of Greg's blood alcohol test.

However, the biggest complaint of all is the fact that Timeshare re-selling by the private owner is almost impossible.

Although Nickelodeon maintained that the singer had in fact said " feck off ", which they described " a phrase made popular by the Channel 4 sitcom Father Ted ," the item was found to be in breach of the ITC Programme Code and the complaint was thus upheld.

In July 2007, following a complaint from Buckingham Palace about the mis-representation of the Queen in a BBC documentary, Mark Thompson, the BBC Director General, in a public purging exercise, singled out Kershaw ’ s show in what became an infamous BBC scandal, announcing that some of the DJ ’ s shows that were aired as live were in fact pre-recorded and that members of the production team had passed themselves off as listeners texting and emailing in to competitions.

t shall be unlawful for any person or persons, other than Indians, to settle or reside upon any lands belonging to or occupied by any nation or tribe of Indians within this state ; and that all leases, contracts and agreements made by any Indians, whereby any person or persons, other than Indians, shall be permitted to reside upon such lands, shall be absolutely void ; and if any person or persons shall settle or reside on any such lands, contrary to this act, it shall be the duty of any judge of any court of Common Pleas of the county within which such lands shall be situated, on complaint made to him, and on due proof of the fact of such settlement or residence, to issue his warrant, under his hand and seal, directed to the sheriff of such county, commanding him, within ten days after the receipt thereof, to remove such person or persons so settling or residing, with his, her or their families, from such lands.

However, there is no evidence whatsoever that Darwin had read the book, and the fact that he sent out for a copy after Matthew's complaint strongly suggests that he did not have a copy in his extensive library.

The UDMR's complaint centered on the length of his sentence and on the fact that he was the only one of those filmed who was brought to trial.

Unclean hands, sometimes called the clean hands doctrine or the dirty hands doctrine, is an equitable defense in which the defendant argues that the plaintiff is not entitled to obtain an equitable remedy on account of the fact that the plaintiff is acting unethically or has acted in bad faith with respect to the subject of the complaint — that is, with " unclean hands ".

The fact that Horace Hall made no complaint might suggest this name being a pseudonym.

These horns made Houston Field House reverberate with noise-so much noise, in fact, that the evening's opponent, Brown, filed a complaint with the NCAA.

Nor does the fact that the complaint discloses the existence of a valid defense to the claim.

In general the enforcement system of representation and complaints has been successful – success being measured by the fact that only one representation or complaint has reached the most severe sanction.

However, it later became known that the police taking Thalia's statement had in fact " told her " both pieces of information, apparently after hearing the name and description from the initial complaint filed by the woman driver.

Justice Scalia wrote a dissenting opinion asserting that the fact the statute differentiated between ' any person ' ( in defining the class of persons who could file a complaint with the FEC over a violation ) and ' any party aggrieved ' ( in defining the class of persons who could bring suit in federal court over the FEC's decision on the complaint ) demonstrated the limiting force of the latter provision — anyone could file a complaint with the FEC if they believed a violation had occurred, but only parties who had actually been aggrieved ( suffered a particularized injury ) as a result of the FEC's decision on the complaint could sue.