Davis believed that his company had paid too much for Infocom and initiated a lawsuit against them to recoup some of the cost, along with changing the way Infocom was run.

Satanism is now allowed in the Royal Navy of the British Armed Forces, despite much opposition from Christians, and, in 2005, the Supreme Court of the United States debated over protecting the religious rights of prison inmates after a lawsuit challenging the issue was filed to them.

The conflict caused much friction between Rozelle and Davis ( The Raiders would eventually win the lawsuit, allowing the team to move to Los Angeles before the 1982 season ).

In an " Order Granting in Part IBM's Motion to Limit SCO's Claims " dated June 28, 2006, Judge Brooke Wells ( the federal magistrate judge presiding over discovery aspects of the case ) barred SCO from asserting 187 of the 298 allegedly misused items that IBM had moved to exclude from the lawsuit for lack of specificity, stating “ many of SCO ’ s arguments and much of Mr. Rochkind ’ s declaration miss the mark ”, and comparing SCO's tactics with those of an officer who accuses a citizen of theft, but will not disclose what the citizen is accused of stealing.

Donovan won £ 200, 000 in damages and the magazine had to pay a further £ 100, 000 in costs, but the action of his lawsuit made him appear homophobic to some sections of the media and had the effect of alienating much of his audience.

Caught in the crossfire is a little girl who's been forced into a curriculum of " meditation techniques " and " inner spiritual guides " that control her moods, attitudes, and actions, the little Amber Brandon, and her mother Lucy who realizes this lawsuit and the people who are " helping " her may be much, much more than she bargained for.

Hogan claims ( in his autobiography, Hollywood Hulk Hogan ) that Russo made it a shoot, and Hogan was double-crossed by Turner executive Brad Siegel, who did not want to use Hogan any more due to how much Hogan cost per appearance ; and Bischoff, in his autobiography, Controversy Creates Ca $ h, contends that Hogan winning and leaving with the title was a work which would result in his return several months later-the plan was to crown a new champion at Halloween Havoc, only for Hogan to come out afterwards and ultimately win a champion vs. champion match-but that Russo's coming out to fire him was a shoot which led to the lawsuit filed by Hogan.

Spurlock points out that although the lawsuit against McDonald's failed ( and subsequently many state legislatures have legislated against product liability actions against producers and distributors of " fast food "), much of the same criticism leveled against the tobacco companies applies to fast food franchises whose product is both physiologically addictive and physically harmful.

This container shipping company, also a principal investor in China Airlines, brought the company much needed capital, since the company had financial problems at this time, partly due to a class action lawsuit involving faulty capacitors on their products., but also because of marketing highly technical products to the general public while offering longer-than-average warranties and generous return policies.

Under the common law, the mere existence of a lawsuit potentially affecting the title to real property had the legal effect of putting the entire world on constructive notice of the suit ; anyone acquiring an interest in real property which was the subject of a pending suit took that interest subject to the litigants ’ rights as they might be eventually determined, no matter how much later.

Because of wartime secrecy the Manhattan Project would only publicly admit to purchasing the vanadium, and did not pay the uranium miners for the uranium ore ( in a much later lawsuit, many miners were able to reclaim lost profits from the U. S. government ).

* Second Life lawsuit to test how much jurisdiction courts have over virtual world, a 25 Nov 2008 article from The Telegraph

It is not known precisely how much money was paid by the owners of KFAC to settle a possible lawsuit, but typically when a station ’ s license is being contested during the renewal process, there is a slim chance of it being sold.

" Abstract of judgment " is a written summary of a judgment which states how much money the losing defendant owes to the person who won the lawsuit ( judgment creditor ), the rate of interest to be paid on the judgment amount, court costs, and any specific orders that the losing defendant ( judgment debtor ) must obey, which abstract is acknowledged and stamped so that it can be recorded and made official with the government.

These rights include such things as the ability of a plaintiff to file a lawsuit, the imposition of a statute of limitations to prevent a defendant from being subjected to a lawsuit after too much time has passed, limitations on recovery, and specified burdens of evidence.

* Hercules: Did community service with Damage Control before, but seen as a regular employee for Damage Control, after losing much of his godly riches to the Constrictor in an excessive force lawsuit.

The game garnered much controversy and was the subject of a lawsuit.

Arabo expanded his brand to include gem-encrusted watches that retail for hundreds of thousands of dollars, gaining so much attention that Cartier filed a trademark-infringement lawsuit against him for putting diamonds on the faces of their watches and reselling them without permission.

A beta test version of AIX 5L for IA-64 systems was released, but according to documents released in the SCO v. IBM lawsuit, less than forty licenses for the finished Monterey Unix were ever sold before the project was terminated in 2002.

Various kits exist, but one of the most famous names is the Volkswagen Beetle-based " Wombat " ( previously called a HummBug, until the threat of a lawsuit from General Motors forced them to change both the name and the design of the grill to make it look less like the real thing ).

Chayefsky and producer Howard Gottfried had just come off a lawsuit against United Artists, challenging the studio's right to lease their previous film, The Hospital, to ABC in a package with a less successful film.

In 1996, the FTC instituted the Funeral Rule Offenders Program ( FROP ), under which " funeral homes make a voluntary payment to the U. S. Treasury or appropriate state fund for an amount less than what would likely be sought if the Commission authorized filing a lawsuit for civil penalties.

** De Lite (" by lawsuit "): If a player captures enough pieces to add up to or exceed a certain value that is set by both players, and the number of digits in his captured pieces ' values are less than a number set by both players, he wins the game.

** De Honore Liteque (" by honour and lawsuit "): If a player captures enough pieces to add up to or exceed a certain value that is set by both players, the number of digits in his captured pieces ' values are less than a number set by both players, and the number of pieces he captured are less than a certain number set by both players, he wins the game.

The lawsuit, however, had left Gilbert and Sullivan somewhat embittered, and their last two works together suffered from a less collegial working relationship than the two men had typically enjoyed while writing earlier operas.

According to court documents filed in the FICO v. VantageScore federal lawsuit the VantageScore market share is less than 6 %.

According to metalunderground. com, the lawsuit was settled for a sum far less than what was originally sought by Bier with the total being $ 380, 000.

In 2011, a former employee filed a racial discrimination lawsuit alleging that he was eventually fired after repeatedly having a black man work the cash register instead of putting him in a less visible location and having “ pretty young girls ” be the cashiers, as requested by supervisors.

The lawsuit left Gilbert and Sullivan somewhat embittered, and though they finally collaborated on two more works, these suffered from a less collegial working relationship than the two men had typically enjoyed while writing earlier operas.

Hostetter claims that he has never objected to Fair Use of Tolkien's works, but argues that dictionaries of Tolkien's languages ( and potentially, though less clearly, grammars, depending on the proportion of quoted to original material ), due to their wholly derivative nature, do not constitute Fair Use, and thereby violate the Estate's copyright, drawing parallels to Marc Okrand's Klingon and to the Estate's lawsuit against Michael Perry's Tolkien chronology.

The establishment of transmigration villages in the 1960s led to land shortages in certain regions, but the success of the Saramakas in their lawsuit against the government of Suriname will now permit them to manage their lands with less outside interference.

The Fifth Circuit has noted, " the greater public good-ultimately the less harsh remedy " is to protect the information from disclosure, even where the result might be dismissal of the lawsuit.

According to his lawsuit, Fitzgerald says he " accepted a salary substantially less than what he would have taken had he known the true budget for the film ," agreeing to an undisclosed " relatively small salary ," a 75, 000 dollar production bonus, another 75, 000 dollars if the movie broke even, and then five percent of revenues.

On a less positive note, the album also included " So On and So On ," which led to a 1999 sampling lawsuit.

Many shareholders felt they'd been tricked into buying stock that was worth far less than it actually was, and filed a class-action lawsuit against Dunlap and Sunbeam.

This type of foreclosure is commonly referred to as " statutory " or " nonjudicial " foreclosure, as opposed to " judicial ", because the mortgagee does not need to file an actual lawsuit to initiate the foreclosure.

In cases, however, where a man was deprived or dispossessed of something without the lawful judgement of his equals by our father King Henry or our brother King Richard, and it remains in our hands or is held by others under our warranty, we shall have respite for the period commonly allowed to Crusaders, unless a lawsuit had been begun, or an enquiry had been made at our order, before we took the Cross as a Crusader.

The typical structured settlement arises and is structured as follows: An injured party ( the claimant ) settles a tort suit with the defendant ( or its insurance carrier ) pursuant to a settlement agreement that provides that, in exchange for the claimant's securing the dismissal of the lawsuit, the defendant ( or, more commonly, its insurer ) agrees to make a series of periodic payments over time.

As the statute of limitations for many torts such as medical malpractice is generally very short, plaintiffs under pressure to issue an originating process such as a statement of claim often use contrived names in the title of proceedings ( most commonly " John Doe " or " Jane Doe ") and identify the person's role in the lawsuit in the body of the pleading.

A civil case, more commonly known as a lawsuit or controversy, begins when a plaintiff files a document called a complaint with a court, informing the court of the wrong that the plaintiff has allegedly suffered because of the defendant, and requesting a remedy.

The re-recording of " Boogie Chillen '" as " Boogie Chillen ' # 2 ", released in July 1950, most commonly heard on Canned Heat and John Lee's collaborative album Hooker ' n Heat, was the basis of the boogie style famously used by ZZ Top on their signature song " La Grange " and was the subject of a lawsuit in 1995.

lost the lawsuit in a summary judgment hearing allowing Warner Bros. to continue to use the ENT title for the series, Warner Bros. decided to change the name of the program to Extra: The Entertainment Magazine in May 1994, four months before the series debuted, with Warner Bros. executives citing that the ENT name was too similar to Entertainment Tonight ( which is commonly known simply as ET ) and could have possibly led to viewer confusion and hurting ratings in the process.

The term is most commonly used to refer to a type of tort lawsuit alleging that the plaintiff's injury has been caused by the negligence of another, but also arises in defamation torts.