The UDC sued Vanderbilt University, located in Nashville, Tennessee over its 2002 plan to change the name of Confederate Memorial Hall, a student dormitory.

Defendant Joe Carr was sued in his position as Secretary of State for Tennessee.

They sued in Federal Court, arguing that since Tennessee was denying them public services because of their disabilities, it was violating Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act ( ADA ).

Hooker remains a political activist, running for Congress in 2002 and again suing all his opponents, and then for Chancery Court judge in 2004 as an Independent against Chancellor Claudia Bonnyman and sued her for taking campaign contributions from lawyers who practice in her court, which lawyers attended fundraisers held by her where she, according to Hooker, gave them food and drink prohibited by Article X Section 3 of the Tennessee Constitution.

Lone Star had originally planned to sell the chain to Centrum Properties, a Brentwood, Tennessee investment group, but Centrum later sued to get out of the deal.

When he refused, Tammany went to the New York Supreme Court and successfully sued to keep Kelly ’ s name off the ballot.

This was the case in a famous United States Supreme Court decision in 1975, O ' Connor v. Donaldson, when Kenneth Donaldson, a patient committed to Florida State Hospital, sued the hospital and staff for confining him for 15 years against his will.

The Supreme Court agreed on October 18, 2010 to consider whether Ashcroft could be sued.

After the war, the Fullard-Leo family sued for the return of the ownership of Palmyra Atoll to themselves all the way up to the Supreme Court.

When Little was sued for damages, the case made its way to the Supreme Court.

In Byrne v Ireland, the Irish Supreme Court declared that sovereign immunity had not survived the creation of the Irish Free State in 1922, and that accordingly the state could be sued for and held vicariously liable for the acts and omissions of its servants and agents.

On February 20, 2007, the US Supreme Court ruled that the Altria Group ( formerly Philip Morris ) did not have to pay $ 79. 5 million in punitive damages awarded to Mayola Williams in a 1999 Oregon court ruling, when she sued Phillip Morris for responsibility in the cancer death of her husband, Jesse Williams.

In 1988, Flynt won an important Supreme Court decision, Hustler Magazine v. Falwell, after being sued by Reverend Jerry Falwell in 1983, over an offensive ad parody in Hustler that suggested that Falwell's first sexual encounter was with his mother in an out-house.

The vote was 4, 207 to 4, 024 in favor of the new county, but North Dakota's Attorney General sued the Secretary of State over the validity of the vote, and the formation was delayed until the Supreme Court affirmed the vote in January 1909.

In the mid-1960s, rulings by the United States Supreme Court made it harder for the media to be sued for libel in the U. S. The court ruled that libel only occurred in cases where a publication printed falsehoods about a celebrity with “ reckless disregard ” for the truth.

Originally, the board thought it was a subsidy, but after the Centennial ended, the government sued for the money back, and the United States Supreme Court ultimately forced the commission to repay the government.

Kaufman was sued a Maryland slave owner in 1847 and convicted in Cumberland County, but the verdict was overturned by the state Supreme Court.

AP sued INS and the case reached the United States Supreme Court.

The state government of South Dakota opposed the drinking age law and sued Dole in the case South Dakota v. Dole, but the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Dole.

Attorney-General Mitchell sued the banks ; on November 4, 1911, Justice Charles Allen Stuart of the Supreme Court of Alberta found in the government's favour.

After an environmental impact study was released the following year, the cities of Irving, Euless, and Grapevine sued the airport over its extension plans, a battle that was finally decided ( in favor of the airport ) by the US Supreme Court in 1994.

She sued the city for violating a ruling in which New York State ’ s Supreme Court had declared that women can go topless in public.

In 1959, Heinkel's company was sued by Edmund Bartl for being enriched by slave labor during World War II, however, the German Supreme Court dismissed his claims for filing too late and ordered Bartl to pay court costs and attorney's fees.

: Separately from the " Little Bird " case, Supreme had sued Black & White, contending that B & W had no right to turn over its line to two Canadian firms, Monogram and Dominion, who had been pressing and distributing in Canada.

Neff then sued Pennoyer to regain the property in a case that became the U. S. Supreme Court case of Pennoyer v. Neff that defined legal jurisdiction for citizens residing in different states.

The displaced residents sued the city but the Michigan Supreme Court ruled that economic development was a legitimate use of eminent domain.

Kusturica sued Nikolaidis and the Monitor newspaper for civil damages at the Supreme Court of Montenegro.

* Beverly Howard ( lawyer ), plaintiff in the case of Glassroth v. Moore, where she sued Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore over a monument of the Ten Commandments

The church sued, citing RFRA, and in the resulting case, City of Boerne v. Flores,, the Supreme Court struck down the RFRA, stating that Congress had stepped beyond their power of enforcement provided in the Fourteenth Amendment.

Rhodes sued, and the Ohio Supreme Court ruled that the limitation was on consecutive terms, thus freeing him to return to office by narrowly defeating incumbent John Gilligan in an upset in the 1974 election.

Protestors sued in Federal Court about the arrests.

The band refused to negotiate, and sued Lewis in Los Angeles Superior Court, seeking a declaratory judgment stating Lewis had no rights to the name or theory of De-evolution.

On March 18, 2002, publicly elected At-Large Representative for North America board member Karl Auerbach sued ICANN in Superior Court in California to gain access to ICANN's accounting records without restriction.

Greif subsequently sued all parties in a Los Angeles Superior Court action that dragged on for several years, and coincidentally later re-surfaced as manager of Sixx's former band, London.

The band and Kovac sued in Los Angeles County Superior Court, claiming Stein was not entitled to a cut of Mötley Crüe's earnings.

On 15 June 2001, NuSphere sued MySQL AB, TcX DataKonsult AB and its original authors Michael (" Monty ") Widenius and David Axmark in U. S District Court in Boston.

In January 2007, commercial fishing interests sued the United States in the Court of Federal Claims alleging that, under the Takings Clause, the Interior Department regulation had “ directly confiscated, taken, and rendered wholly and completely worthless ” their purported property interests.

Millar sued, and went to the Court of King's Bench to obtain an injunction and advocate perpetual copyright at common law.

In 2003, Staind unsuccessfully sued their logo designer Jon Stainbrook in New York Federal Court for attempting to re-use the logo he had sold to the band.

But CAT Telecom sued the NTC in the Administrative Court, claimed that NTC does not have authority to hold the auction.

On July 3, 2007, the Court ( through the original three-judge panel ) ruled ( 1 ) that the taxpayer's compensation was received on account of a non-physical injury or sickness ; ( 2 ) that gross income under section 61 of the Internal Revenue Code does include compensatory damages for non-physical injuries, even if the award is not an " accession to wealth ," ( 3 ) that the income tax imposed on an award for non-physical injuries is an indirect tax, regardless of whether the recovery is restoration of " human capital ," and therefore the tax does not violate the constitutional requirement of Article I, Section 9, Clause 4, that capitations or other direct taxes must be laid among the states only in proportion to the population ; ( 4 ) that the income tax imposed on an award for non-physical injuries does not violate the constitutional requirement of Article I, Section 8, Clause 1, that all duties, imposts and excises be uniform throughout the United States ; ( 5 ) that under the doctrine of sovereign immunity, the Internal Revenue Service may not be sued in its own name.

In early 2009 Intel sued Psion Teklogix ( US & Canada ) and Psion ( UK ) in the Federal Court, seeking a cancellation of the trademark and an order enjoining Psion from asserting any trademark rights in the term " netbook ", a declarative judgement regarding their use of the term, attorneys ' fees, costs and disbursements and " such other and further relief as the Court deems just and proper ".

In 1991, Finland sued Denmark at the International Court of Justice, on the grounds that Finnish-built mobile offshore drilling units would have been unable to pass beneath the bridge.

Amid much publicity, Broome sued Irving for libel in October 1968, and in February 1970, after 17 days of deliberation before London's High Court, Broome won.