The perjury charge arose from Clinton's testimony about his relationship to Lewinsky during a sexual harassment lawsuit brought by former Arkansas state employee Paula Jones.

In 1994, Paula Jones brought a sexual harassment lawsuit against Clinton, claiming he made unwanted advances in 1991, which he denied.

Though no lawsuit was brought to trial, lawyers from the team and the auto maker negotiated an ultimately amicable agreement whereby Jaguar would be named the official car of the Jaguars, and the Jaguars would redesign their uniforms.

The Wilpon family and Saul Katz recently settled the lawsuit brought against them on behalf of the victims of Bernard Madoff ’ s Ponzi scheme for $ 162 Million.

For instance, Sydney Pollack brought a lawsuit against Danish TV after screening his 1975 film Three Days of the Condor in pan-and-scan in 1991 ( The court ruled that the pan scanning conducted by Danish television was a ' mutilation ' of the film and a violation of Pollack's ' Droit Moral ', his legal right as an artist to maintain his reputation by protecting the integrity of his work.

Later on, those systems running TOPS-20 ( on the KL10 PDP-10 processors ) were labeled DECSYSTEM-20 ( the block capitals being the result of a lawsuit brought against DEC by Singer, which once made a computer called " system-10 ").

As an example of this situation, one can think of an American court applying British tort statutes and case law to a car accident that took place in London where both the driver and the victim are British citizens but the lawsuit was brought in before the American courts because the driver's insurer is American.

notice of a lawsuit being brought against them, or who has not received a fair opportunity to present evidence for themselves.

The injury or illness is due to a design hazard, with each having been found to have sold the same type of product in a manner that made it unreasonably dangerous, there is inability to identify the specific manufacturer of the product or products that brought about the Plaintiff ’ s injury or illness and there are enough of manufacturers of the fungible product joined in the lawsuit, to represent a substantial share of the market.

In the 1990s, controversy over a class-action lawsuit brought in Brooklyn, New York over Jewish assets in Holocaust-era bank accounts prompted the Swiss government to commission the most recent and authoritative study of Switzerland's interaction with the Nazi regime.

Local residents brought a class-action lawsuit, one of the first held in Massachusetts, against the United States Industrial Alcohol Company ( USIA ), which had bought Purity Distilling in 1917.

In order to sue a trust, one must sue the trustee in his or her capacity as trustee for a specific trust ; conversely, if the trust needs to sue someone, the lawsuit must be brought by the trustee in his or her capacity as such.

Canal + brought a lawsuit against News Corporation alleging that they, with the help of NDS, had been working on breaking the MediaGuard smartcards used by Canal +, ITV Digital and other non-Murdoch-owned TV companies throughout Europe.

In 2008, a lawsuit was brought by the Independent Party of Oregon against the Oregon Secretary of State claiming that modifications to the ballot design statute in 1995 once again required the state to list multiple nominating parties on the candidate's ballot line.

In the late 1970s he became the chair of NCJAR, which brought a class-action lawsuit against the US Government on March 16, 1983, asserting that it had unjustly incarcerated Japanese Americans during World War II.

Where a class action lawsuit is brought, with one named plaintiff actually representing the interests of many others, the case will not become moot even if the named plaintiff ceases to belong to the class that is seeking a remedy.

The Alameda County district attorney later dropped the case for lack of evidence, and in 2004 the FBI and the City of Oakland agreed to a $ 4 million settlement of a lawsuit brought by Bari's estate, and her friend, over their false arrest.

On August 19, 2008, GD agreed to pay $ 4 million to settle a lawsuit brought by the US Government claiming a GD unit fraudulently billed the government for defectively manufactured parts used in US military aircraft and submarines.

In 1991, Nimoy teamed up with Robert B. Radnitz to produce a movie for TNT about a pro bono publico lawsuit brought by public interest attorney William John Cox on behalf of Mel Mermelstein, an Auschwitz survivor, against a group of organizations engaged in Holocaust denial.

The lawsuit was brought by a municipal water district in Texas, which elects members to a water board.

A subsequent lawsuit brought by the Canavan Foundation against the Miami Children's Hospital was resolved with a sealed out-of-court settlement.

In 1976 the Mashantucket Pequot brought a successful lawsuit that contested the illegal appropriation of reservation lands by the state of Connecticut.

Similarly, lawsuits alleging some types of police misconduct and prosecutorial misconduct may often be brought in federal court, and federal courts may enjoin state officials from enforcing state laws found to be unconstitutional in a federal lawsuit, under threat of being held personally in contempt of court for doing otherwise.

The U. K. publication of Funeral in Berlin brought on a lawsuit ; at the novel's climax, the protagonist and Hallam meet at a fireworks party where they discuss the hazards of fireworks.

Aureal won the lawsuit brought by Creative in December 1999.

Impeachment proceedings were based on allegations that Clinton had lied about his relationship with 22-year-old White House intern Monica Lewinsky in a sworn deposition in the Paula Jones lawsuit.

His attorney Bob Bennett stated that he only made the settlement so he could end the lawsuit for good and move on with his life.

Of the 227 major dams in the Columbia River drainage basin, the four Washington dams on the lower Snake River are often identified for removal, notably in an ongoing lawsuit concerning a Bush administration plan for salmon recovery.

In contrast, on July 21, 2010, in a lawsuit involving whether college cheerleading qualified as a sport for purposes of Title IX, a federal court, citing a current lack of program development and organization, ruled that it does not, but may in the future.

Arguments made by legal experts stated influence on art style is not copyright infringement. Glass warfare from the website of the St. Petersburg TimesThe Seattle Times: Local News: Glass artist Chihuly's lawsuit tests limits of copyrighting art, a 2005 article from The Seattle Times ; Chihuly settled the lawsuit independently with Rubino initially, and later Kaindl as well. Chihuly, rival glass artist settle dispute a 2006 article from The Seattle Times

The lawsuit claims that waste sludge from the production of leather, containing high levels of hexavalent chromium, was distributed to farmers in northwest Missouri to use as fertilizer on their fields.

Another influential development was a 1965 lawsuit, Scenic Hudson Preservation Conference v. Federal Power Commission, opposing the construction of a power plant on Storm King Mountain, which is said to have given birth to modern United States environmental law.

Even as the regenerative-circuit lawsuit continued, Armstrong was working on another momentous invention.

The FSTA filed an amicus curiae in support of CBC, also arguing that if MLBAM won the lawsuit it would have a dramatic impact on the industry, which was largely ignored by the major sports leagues for years while a number of smaller entrepreneurs grew it into a multi-billion dollar industry, and a ruling could allow the MLBAM to have a monopoly over the industry.

In April 2009, the New York Times reported on a document revealed in court as part of a lawsuit.

The second ( 2003 ) edition contained 100 pages of new material, primarily in chapter 3 on the Swiss Banks lawsuit.

Software to allow users to run " traditional " workloads on zIIPs and zAAPs was briefly marketed by Neon Enterprise Software as " zPrime " but was withdrawn from the market in 2011 after a lawsuit by IBM.

The protection offered by a liability insurance policy is twofold: a legal defense in the event of a lawsuit commenced against the policyholder and indemnification ( payment on behalf of the insured ) with respect to a settlement or court verdict.

Following this action, VeriSign filed a lawsuit against ICANN on February 27, 2004, claiming that ICANN had overstepped its authority.

In August 2008, Bradley Blakeman, a former aide to George W. Bush, filed a copyright lawsuit in federal court on Long Island over Grammer's movie Swing Vote, claiming that parts of its plot and marketing had been stolen from him.

The lawsuit claimed that Blakeman had given a copyrighted screenplay called Go November to Grammer in 2006, and that Grammer agreed to develop the project and star as a Republican president but instead ended up playing a similar role in Swing Vote, which was released on August 1, 2008.

It was reported on Motley. com that the lawsuit has been settled.

Ralph Anspach won a lawsuit over his game Anti-Monopoly on appeals in 1979, as the 9th District Court determined that the trademark Monopoly was generic, and therefore unenforceable.

Sales of the 6501 basically stopped, and the lawsuit would drag on for many years before MOS was eventually forced to pay $ 200, 000 USD in fines.

In 1986, Davis testified on behalf of the United States Football League in their unsuccessful antitrust lawsuit against the NFL.

Bushnell based the idea on an electronic ping-pong game included in the Magnavox Odyssey, which later resulted in a lawsuit against Atari.