In the famous Danbury Hatters case, a suit was brought against the union by the Loewe Company for monopolistic practices, e.g., trying to persuade consumers not to purchase the product of the struck manufacturer.

It is not like class actions in the United Statesit only applies to parties who have already filed suit and does not allow a claim to be brought in the name of an unknown group of claimants.

Magdalene College brought suit against the 18th Earl for the Great Garden property, and legal proceedings continued for decades.

Mimault claimed priority of invention over Baudot and brought a patent suit against him during 1877.

The National Defense Authorization Act for 2012 would have authorized indefinite detention of suspected terrorists, but enforcement of the relevant section was blocked by a federal court on May 16, 2012, ruling on a suit brought by a number of private citizens, including Chris Hedges, Daniel Ellsberg, Noam Chomsky, and Birgitta Jonsdottir.

Aeschines brought this suit against Timarchus to bar him from the rights of political office and his case succeeded.

On July 23, 1996, a North Carolina jury threw out a class action suit brought on behalf of more than 160, 000 onetime supporters who contributed as much as $ 7, 000 each to Bakker's coffers in the 1980s.

On March 12, 2012, Los Angeles Superior Court took opening statements on the case in which former-JPL employee David Coppedge brought suit against the Lab due to workplace discrimination and wrongful termination.

In 1915, the upstart league brought suit against the existing leagues and owners under the Sherman Act and the case was assigned to Landis.

In 2005, the Tohono O ' odham Nation brought suit against the National Science Foundation to stop further construction of gamma ray detectors in the Gardens of the Sacred Tohono O ' odham Spirit I ' itoi, which are just below the summit.

Kentucky brought suit against Indiana in the early 1980s because of the building of the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana, which would have discharged its waste water into the river.

Quasi in rem jurisdiction involved the seizure of property held by the individual against whom the suit was brought, and attachment of that property to the case in question.

Contempt of court is considered a prerogative of the court, as " the requirement of a jury does not apply to ' contempts committed in disobedience of any lawful writ, process, order, rule, decree, or command entered in any suit or action brought or prosecuted in the name of, or on behalf of, the United States '".

In 1974, when a shorter version of the story appeared, a suit was brought on behalf of Mayling, and Cowles testified ( perhaps to protect Wilkie ) that the affair was “ impossible .” Taylor speculates that Willkie, who had several drinks when he talked to Cowles, had exaggerated or misled his young friend who had imagined the rest.

In spite of Morheim's involvement, Sturges " insisted on sole producer credit "; both Morheim and Quinn brought suit over the events, with Morheim settling for an associate producer credit and Quinn denied the $ 630, 000 in damages he sought.

In Muskrat v. United States,, the Supreme Court denied jurisdiction to cases brought under a statute permitting certain Native Americans to bring suit against the United States to determine the constitutionality of a law allocating tribal lands.

One of them brought suit in federal court, arguing that Rhode Island's government was not " republican " in character, and that his arrest ( along with all of the government's other acts ) were invalid.

The Canadian based company then brought suit against the United States alleging violations under N. A. F. T. A .. Houston based Service Corporation International has also had their share of legal troubles with the operations of both their funeral home and cemetery operations.

As a result of a civil suit brought by the infant's family, Waterman's was ordered to pay pay the parents $ 325, 000, with a pending legal claim that the mortuary violated the state's consumer protection law that could triple the damages, the Boston Globe reported.

In 1956, AT & T and the Justice Department agreed on a consent decree to end an antitrust suit brought against AT & T in 1949.

One subject of Army drug experimentation, James Stanley, an Army sergeant, brought an important, albeit unsuccessful, suit.

On August 26, 2010, Mercis BV, representing Bruna, brought suit against Sanrio with the claim that one of Hello Kitty's companion characters, a rabbit named Cathy, infringes on the copyright and trademark of Miffy.

Six officials, among them Efraín Ríos Montt and Óscar Humberto Mejía, were formally charged on 7 July 2006 to appear in the Spanish National Court after Spain's Constitutional Court ruled in September 2005, the Spanish Constitutional Court declaration that the " principle of universal jurisdiction prevails over the existence of national interests ", following the Menchu suit brought against the officials for atrocities committed in the Guatemalan Civil War

Under the Clayton Act, only civil suits could be brought to the court's attention and a provision " permits a suit in the federal courts for three times the actual damages caused by anything forbidden in the antitrust laws ", including court costs and attorney's fees.

The largest class action suit to date in Canada was settled in 2005 after Nora Bernard initiated efforts that led to an estimated 79, 000 survivors of Canada's residential school system suing the Canadian government.

Meanwhile, Sakamoto continues to craft music to suit any context: In 2005, Finnish mobile phone manufacturer Nokia hired Sakamoto to compose ring and alert tones for their high-end phone, the Nokia 8800.

A class action investor lawsuit was settled in August 2003 for US $ 300 million while a suit by billionaire investor activist Kirk Kerkorian was dismissed on April 7, 2005.

The Netherlands followed suit in September 2004, with Belgium making moves to follow in 2005.

In 2005, a Tokyo district judge dismissed a suit by the families of the lieutenants, stating that " the lieutenants admitted the fact that they raced to kill 100 people " and that the story cannot be proven to be clearly false.

In 2005, the Tohono O ' odham Nation brought suit against the National Science Foundation to stop further construction of gamma ray detectors in the Gardens of the Sacred Tohono O ' odham Spirit I ' itoi, which are just below the summit.

On January 3, 2005, a new suit was filed in the U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of California on behalf of three unnamed families.

In 2005, Scarver brought a civil rights suit against the officials of the Wisconsin Secure Program Facility in which he argued that he had been subjected to cruel and unusual punishment, contrary to his constitutional rights.

The DC Comics character Aquaman donned a suit of armor resembling the Creature in the 2005 – 07 miniseries Justice.

Somalis subsequently began a secondary migration from other states to the former mill town, and after 2005, many Bantus followed suit.

On November 17, 2005, Soong was awarded NT $ 10 million in a defamation suit against former President Lee Teng-hui, who had alleged that Soong was playing mahjong while his supporters were protesting on the streets in April 2004.

Soong filed a defamation suit against Chen in June 2005, demanding a symbolic NT $ 1 in compensation and a published apology in four major local newspapers for three consecutive days.

A former city police sergeant, the department's only African American, has sued the city for wrongful termination and additionally filed a federal race discrimination suit on December 1, 2005.

Apple Records, the record label representing the The Beatles, launched a suit against EMI for non-payment of royalties on 15 December 2005.

In January, 2005, an iPod purchaser named Thomas Slattery filed a suit against Apple for the " unlawful bundling " of their iTunes Music Store and iPod device.

* Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper filed a suit against the Liberal Party of Canada, the Official Opposition, after the latter paid for trucks to drive through the streets playing a journalist's tape of Harper admitting he knew of " financial considerations " offered to dying MP Chuck Cadman before a critical Canadian House of Commons vote in 2005.

* U. S. judge fines major law firm for filing frivolous SLAPP suit ( news story, Aug 2005 ).

In 2005, three Irish women who had previously travelled to England for abortion brought suit in the European Court of Human Rights asserting that restrictive and unclear Irish laws violate several provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights.

New major stockholder Phoenix Capital followed suit the following month, selling all but 50 million of its 575 million shares to JPMorgan on December 9, 2005.

On September 19, 2005, the Federal Election Commission filed suit against the Club for Growth for violations of the Federal Election Campaign Act for failing to register as a political action committee in the 2000, 2002, and 2004 congressional elections.

The British Ornithologists ' Union followed suit in June 2005.

A suit by an ephedra manufacturer was upheld by a Federal District Court judge in Utah on April 14, 2005.