AIX was a component of the 2003 SCO v. IBM lawsuit, in which the SCO Group filed a lawsuit against IBM, alleging IBM contributed SCO's intellectual property to the Linux codebase.

As of 2002, the city of Seattle had paid over $ 200, 000 in settlements of lawsuits filed against the Seattle Police Department for assault and wrongful arrest, with a class action lawsuit still pending.

A lawsuit was filed for false arrest.

However, since the lawsuit was filed in a state California court, the lawsuit was tossed out because only federal courts have jurisdiction over intellectual property issues.

On September 2, 2004, Cantor filed a civil lawsuit against the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for allegedly providing money to the hijackers and Al Qaeda, one of a number of organizations to do so.

In November 2006, a lawsuit was filed against the North Central Regional Library District ( NCRL ) in Washington State for its policy of refusing to disable restrictions upon requests of adult patrons, but CIPA was not challenged in that matter.

In August 2005, Elwes filed a lawsuit against Evolution Entertainment, his management firm and producer of Saw.

Throwing dice for money was the cause of many special laws in Rome ; one of these stated that no lawsuit could be filed by a person who allowed gambling in his house, even if he had been cheated or assaulted.

In June 1987, Rosenthal filed a $ 30 million lawsuit against lawyers he claimed cheated him out of millions of dollars in real estate investments.

In the controversy that followed the decision, the Association of Alumni filed a lawsuit, although it later withdrew the action.

The owner of the Effie Afton, John Hurd, filed a lawsuit against the Rock Island Railroad Company.

In 2010, a lawsuit filed in 2004 by the Log Cabin Republicans ( LCR ), the nation's largest Republican gay organization, went to trial.

In 2006, Chihuly filed a lawsuit against his former longtime employee, glassblower Bryan Rubino, and businessman Robert Kaindl, under accusations of copyright and trademark infringement.

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 September 2005, the U. S. Department of Justice filed an antitrust lawsuit against the National Association of Realtors challenging NAR practices that, DOJ asserts, prevent competition from practitioners who use different methods.

On September 7, 2004, Busey's landlord filed a lawsuit to evict him because Busey had refused to pay his rent for about three months.

On December 15, 2006, the college filed a federal lawsuit against the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, alleging that a decision by the state to block the college from participating in the state sponsored CareerLink job service amounted to a violation of the college's First Amendment rights.

On July 14, 2006, San Francisco businessman and real estate investor Clint Reilly filed a lawsuit against Hearst Corp. ( owner of the San Francisco Chronicle ) and MediaNews Group ( owner of the San Jose Mercury News, Contra Costa Times, Marin Independent Journal, Oakland Tribune and all other paid-circulation dailies in the Bay Area ), alleging that the two companies have been conspiring to control advertising rates, a violation of antitrust laws.

On December 21, 2006, the San Francisco Bay Guardian and nonprofit Media Alliance filed suit to make the details of Reilly's lawsuit — and MediaNews and the Chronicle's response — public.

On June 28, 1977, in the Philadelphia Federal District Court, a lawsuit was filed by the Norlin Corporation, the parent company of Gibson Guitars against Elger / Hoshino U. S. A .' s use of the Gibson headstock design and logo.

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

In October 2001 a lawsuit was filed against Consumer Empowerment by members of the music and motion picture industry in the USA.

In 1998, Grammer filed a lawsuit against Internet Entertainment Group, which Grammer claimed had stolen a videotape of him having sex with a woman from his home.

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

Litigation for the purpose of profit is referred to as “ Ambulance chasing ”: If for the purpose of harassment, for example to silence critics, it is known as a strategic lawsuit against public participation ( SLAPP ).

* Strategic lawsuit against public participation

* God's lawsuit against Israel and expression of hope ( chapters 6-7 ).

* 1999 – The Recording Industry Association of America files a lawsuit against the Napster file-sharing client alleging copyright infringement.

Brockovich assisted in the filing of a lawsuit against Prime Tanning Corp. of St. Joseph, Missouri in April 2009.

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.

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.

One was a count of perjury in a civil deposition in Paula Jones's sexual harassment lawsuit against Clinton ( by a 205 – 229 vote ) and an article which accused Clinton of abuse of power by a 48 – 285 vote.

This did not hold Oracle, however, from filing a lawsuit against Google shortly after that for using Java inside the Android SDK ( see Google section below ).

* Her Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division, David W. Ogden, led a lawsuit against the tobacco companies.

In 1986, seven Fundamentalist Christians families in Tennessee opposed the novel's inclusion in the public school syllabus and filed a lawsuit.

The first class was graduated in 1826, receiving their degrees only after the disposition of a lawsuit seeking to close the school.

One of the poorest counties in the state, this is where the lawsuit challenging Ohio's school funding system, DeRolph v. State, began.

* In 1996, Jamie Nabozny won a landmark lawsuit against officials at his former public high school in Ashland, Wisconsin over their refusal to intervene in the " relentless antigay verbal and physical abuse by fellow students " to which he had been subjected and which had resulted in his hospitalization.

His lawsuit against the school district and several administrators ended in a 2002 settlement in which the district agreed to create a series of policies to protect gay and lesbian students and to pay Henkle $ 451, 000.

The residents had concerns that it would " undermine the privacy and security " of the enclave, that it would be " downright illegal place a public school on a gated private property ", that it would force admission of large numbers of non-residents to the community, and that an eventual lawsuit would force the removal of the gates.

The American Civil Liberties Union labeled the school district's actions as censorship and stepped in to give the school district five days to reverse its decision, and promise never to do anything like it again, or they would launch a lawsuit on Natalie's behalf.

Also in 1990, a lawsuit arose between the Schuylerville school board and a local Jewish family, over the removal of a painting depicting the crucifixion of Christ from public display in the school auditorium.

This lawsuit, which the school lost, was said to have prompted a visit to Schuylerville by a Ku Klux Klan member.

In 2007, a lawsuit was brought against the local high school for religious discrimination and failure to separate church and state, after a student allegedly was kicked off the basketball team for refusing to participate in compulsory pre and post game prayers.

DKE filed a lawsuit charging that the school violated its right to free association as well as antitrust laws by monopolizing the student housing market.

Later St. John's was the defendant in a lawsuit by Donald Scheiber ( the only Jewish Vice President at the school ) for discrimination after being removed because he was Jewish.

The university was given a donation of $ 8 million by entrepreneur Mart Green, and although the lawsuit was still in process, the school submitted to an outside audit, and with a good report an additional $ 62 million was given by Green.

A 2011 class-action lawsuit in the United States District Court for Minnesota alleged that the administration at a predominantly-white high school showed a " deliberate indifference " in allowing a group of students to hold a homecoming event called " Wigger Day ", including " Wigger Wednesday " and " Wangsta Day ", since at least 2008.

This event was cancelled permanently after the 2008-2009 Inspector Platearum ( a senior student who is responsible for ringing the school bells and is furthermore the leader of the seniors in the Hall Fight ) broke his neck in the fight, resulting in a 9 million ISK lawsuit.

Yale University entered into its own licensing agreement with a private company, leading Fenn to file a lawsuit against the school in 1996.

He was from a strong Presbyterian family in Norfolk, but had become a member of the Church of England, and originally intended to pursue a career in the Church, but after the disappointment of losing a lawsuit over an estate he had hoped to inherit, he moved to Bristol, where he became an excise officer and was later appointed teacher at the Fishponds free school.

" The Institute has received some level of notoriety for its various legal actions, including helping Paula Jones pursue a sexual harassment lawsuit in 1997 against then-President Bill Clinton, as well as its defense of airline pilots and passengers affected by the Transportation Security Administration ’ s security procedures, middle and high school students suspended and expelled under inflexible zero tolerance policies, and the free speech rights of preachers and political protestors.

In 2004, The Rutherford Institute filed a lawsuit against the Muskogee School District in Oklahoma on behalf of Nashala Hearn, an 11-year-old Muslim student who was suspended for wearing a religious head scarf to school.

Due to a lawsuit in 2006, YVHS adopted a " split " lunch policy in the second semester of the 2006-2007 school year.

The New York Post reported a harsher response from the school spokesman: " The lawsuit is completely without merit ", Gary Axelrod said.