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.

* On June 24, 2009, following the California Supreme Court ruling on Strauss v. Horton, Boies joined former Solicitor General Theodore Olson, the opposing attorney in Bush v. Gore, in the lawsuit Perry v. Schwarzenegger seeking to overturn the state of California's Proposition 8 ban on gay marriage.

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.

If the person requested to testify ( deponent ) is a party to the lawsuit or someone who works for an involved party, notice of time and place of the examination before trial can be given to the other side's attorney, but if the witness is an independent third party, a subpoena must be served on him / her if he / she is recalcitrant.

Condit's attorney said the libel lawsuit was based on comments Dunne repeated on national radio and television programs in December 2001 where he suggested Condit frequented Middle Eastern embassies for sexual activity with prostitutes, and during those times, he made it clear that he wanted someone to get rid of Levy.

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.

Several state attorney generals have begun investigating these practices, which may violate fair lending laws, and the NAACP have filed a class-action lawsuit charging systematic racial discrimination by more than a dozen banks.

In 1994, Scientology attorney Helena Kobrin was fined $ 17, 775 for filing a frivolous lawsuit.

The lawsuits were filed by a Philadelphia attorney, Aaron J. Freiwald, who also filed a class-action lawsuit to set up medical monitoring for current and former McCullom Lake residents.

Don King then planned to promote the fight, but Holmes lost a lawsuit filed by Virginia attorney Richard Hirschfeld, who said he had a contract with Holmes that gave him right of first refusal on a Holmes-Coetzee bout.

" In March 2011, Gloria Allred, Hagan's attorney, said the lawsuit was " resolved " but provided no further details.

In 2010, with the gag orders finally lifted from the 1985 lawsuit trial of Marc Christian versus the estate of Hudson, Robert Park Mills, the attorney who represented the Hudson estate against Christian in court, released a new 492 page book entitled Between Rock and a Hard Place-In Defense of Rock Hudson.

" GSK officials never commented on whether there was any connection between Senator Grassley's letter and their decision to pursue a settlement with the New York State attorney general's lawsuit.

Liebeck's attorney, Reed Morgan, and the Association of Trial Lawyers of America defend the lawsuit by claiming that McDonald's reduced the temperature of their coffee after the suit.

On April 6, 1987, the day Sugar Ray Leonard defeated Marvelous Marvin Hagler, Curry filed a million dollar lawsuit against Leonard and his attorney Mike Trainer.

According to Reuters, McMahon failed to pay divorce attorney Norman Solovay $ 275, 168, according to a lawsuit filed in the Manhattan federal court.

Finley, in turn, hired famed sports attorney Neil Papiano and proceeded to file a $ 10 million dollar restraint-of-trade lawsuit against Kuhn and Major League Baseball.

Curling's attorney stated that he plans to appeal the dismissal of the lawsuit.

Morris Buttermaker ( Walter Matthau ), an alcoholic and former minor-league baseball player, is recruited by a city councilman and attorney who filed a lawsuit against an ultra-competitive Southern California Little League which excluded the least skilled athletes ( including his son ) from playing.

The filing was prepared by DFL election attorney Alan Weinblatt, and argued that all candidates are subject to a time limit for petitions, and that most of the petition signatures were gathered before the July 4 – 18, 2006 period which the lawsuit claimed was applicable.

McCollum was the lead attorney general in the lawsuit seeking to overturn Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ( PPACA ), Florida et al v. United States Department of Health and Human Services.

McCollum opposed federal health care mandates in Florida, decrying them as an unconstitutional " tax on living ," and joining with 13 other state attorney generals in filing a federal lawsuit.

Galliano denied the allegations through his attorney, and has launched a defamation lawsuit against the couple accusing him of antisemitism.

F. Lee Bailey, Sheppard's attorney during his 1966 retrial, insisted in his testimony in the 2000 civil lawsuit that Eberling could not have been the killer.

In 1916, New Jersey launched a lawsuit against New York over issues of rail freight, with the Interstate Commerce Commission ( ICC ) issuing an order that the two states work together, subordinating their own interests to the public interest.

On November 2, 2009, the Lakota Nation filed a lawsuit against the United States, Arizona State, James Arthur Ray and Angel Valley Retreat Center site owners, to have Ray and the site owners arrested and punished under the Sioux Treaty of 1868 between the United States and the Lakota Nation, which states that “ if bad men among the whites or other people subject to the authority of the United States shall commit any wrong upon the person or the property of the Indians, the United States will (...) proceed at once to cause the offender to be arrested and punished according to the laws of the United States, and also reimburse the injured person for the loss sustained .”

One account states that Cibber forced his wife at gunpoint to sleep with Sloper ; another places a spy in a closet at the scene of one of their trysts, in order to gather testimony for the lawsuit.

A few states still allow the employee to initiate a lawsuit in a trial court against the employer.

On March 23, 2009 Dubai World the United Arab Emirates domestic and international investment arm of the Dubai emirate government announced that it and a wholly owned subsidiary Infinity World have filed a lawsuit in the Delaware Chancery Court claiming that MGM Mirage breached its CityCenter joint venture agreement after the company filed its 10-K report with the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission which states in part " There is substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern.

* SCO v. IBM Linux lawsuit: IBM furnishes more information on their SCO countersuit and states that they have Novell support.

The lawsuit states,

After Pennsylvania won a federal lawsuit to block the deactivation of the 111th Fighter Wing of the Pennsylvania Air National Guard, defense and Congressional leaders chose to try to settle the remaining BRAC lawsuits out of court, reaching compromises with the plaintiff states.

Newdow is best known for the lawsuit which he states was filed on behalf of his daughter against inclusion of the words " under God " in public schools ' recitals of the United States ' Pledge of Allegiance.

Other states, such as New York, will not allow a person who injures themselves to bring a lawsuit against the bar that served them, but if that person dies will allow such a person's children to sue the drinking establishment for loss of parental consortium.

In states that permit a judgment to be renewed, a lawsuit to renew the judgment would not be barred by res judicata, however in states that do not permit renewal by action ( as opposed to renewal by scire facias or by motion ), such an action would be rejected by the courts as vexatious.

On November 30, 2009 news reported the November 2nd Lakota nation lawsuit against the U. S., Arizona State, James Arthur Ray and Angel Valley Retreat Center site owners, to have Ray and the site owners arrested and punished under the Sioux Treaty of 1868 between the United States and the Lakota Nation, which states that “ if bad men among the whites or other people subject to the authority of the United States shall commit any wrong upon the person or the property of the Indians, the United States will (...) proceed at once to cause the offender to be arrested and punished according to the laws of the United States, and also reimburse the injured person for the loss sustained .”

His lawsuit states that Twentieth Century Fox and Sacha Baron Cohen fraudulently convinced him to approve his appearance in the movie by telling him that it would be for a documentary of immigrants integrating into American life.

In 2003, Blumenthal and the Attorneys General of 8 other states ( New York, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and Vermont ) filed a federal lawsuit against the Bush Administration for " endangering air quality by gutting a critical component of the federal Clean Air Act ".

In May 1998, Blumenthal, along with attorneys general from 19 other states and the District of Columbia, filed an anti-trust lawsuit against Microsoft accusing the company of abusing its monopoly power to stifle competition.

Many states also require that a certificate of merit before a malpractice lawsuit be filed which requires a report from a medical physician that the physician accused of negligence breached the standard of care and caused injury to the patient.

Some states ’ lis pendens statutes require the filer of the notice, in the event of a challenge to the notice, to establish that it has probable cause or a good likelihood of success on the merits of its case in the underlying lawsuit ; other statutes do not have such a requirement.

As Texas State Attorney General, he argued the 1946 submerged lands ownership lawsuit United States v. California, 332 U. S. 19 before the Supreme Court of the United States in 1947, on behalf of the coastal states.

By the 1920s the lawsuit was divided between the states of the Mississippi River Valley, who supported the development of deep waterways linking the Great Lakes with the Mississippi, and the Great Lakes states, which feared sinking water levels might harm shipping in the lakes.

On May 22, 2007, the EFF came to an agreement to settle the lawsuit: the settlement states that Mr. Silver will license the Electric Slide under a Creative Commons license and to also post the new license on any of his current or future websites that mention the Electric Slide.

In March 2008, Herman Miller settled an antitrust lawsuit with the states of New York, Michigan, and Illinois for $ 750, 000.

" 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.