* Legal expenses insurance covers policyholders for the potential costs of legal action against an institution or an individual.

Legal action by the Center for Biological Diversity led to federal listing of the cat on the endangered species list in 1997.

Legal action by rival RCA kept commercial use of the system off the air until June 1951, and regular broadcasts only lasted a few months before manufacture of all color television sets was banned by the Office of Defense Mobilization ( ODM ) in October, ostensibly due to the Korean War.

* Legal remedy, an action by a court of law to impose its will

Legal action has been taken in at least one such case.

Legal action over the ownership of the rights ended in victory for Carte, Gilbert and Sullivan.

Legal action between residents of Springville and what became Mapleton, largely over water rights, allowed Mapleton to chart its own course beginning in 1901.

Legal action against Union Carbide had dominated the aftermath of the disaster, however, other issues have also continued to develop, which include the problems of ongoing contamination, criticisms of the clean-up operation undertaken by Union Carbide.

Legal action was taken in the case of Neil Innes ( formerly of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band and The Rutles ) who sued after the song " Whatever " borrowed from his " How Sweet to Be an Idiot ".

Legal action from Intel, who objected to the use of the strings " P166 " and " P200 " in non-Pentium products, led to Cyrix adding the letter " R " to its names.

Legal action may be taken against the police or the Crown Attorney or the Attorney General, as they are no longer exempt from suit.

On 29 November 2004, The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly ( PACE ) Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights published a report which concluded " the Assembly considers that the circumstances of the arrest and prosecution of leading Yukos executives suggest that the interest of the State's action in these cases goes beyond the mere pursuit of criminal justice, to include such elements as to weaken an outspoken political opponent, to intimidate other wealthy individuals and to regain control of strategic economic assets.

Legal action against rogue traders

Legal action by EMI prompted the album cover to be changed to the skeleton of an eagle.

Senate Rules authorize the Senate to direct the Senate Legal Counsel to file a civil action against any private individual found in contempt.

Legal action and rioting continued for some years.

Legal action came to a head on December 16 when Lucien Riopel won a court judgment expelling Allard.

Legal action led to the diversion of the canal.

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Marshall — working as special counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund — determined that the first course of action should be a publicity campaign mounted with the aim of gathering public support for the release of the men.

Legal action was taken against Golden China by Nintendo for importing copied games in 1995 ; however, as these clones have been in South Africa for many years, and readily available at reputable stores, such action seems to have had little impact, and Nintendo and Sega seem to have otherwise shown little consideration for piracy in South Africa.

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Legal action started a year later, resulting in an out-of-court settlement totalling £ 1. 7 million.

McMurdo Station (), Palmer Station (); government use only except by permit ( see Permit Office under " Legal System ").

The Arkansas Education Standards Committee, chaired by Clinton's wife, attorney and Legal Services Corporation chair Hillary Rodham Clinton, succeeded in reforming the education system, transforming it from the worst in the nation into one of the best.

Estimates are produced by Brazil's National Institute for Space Research ( INPE ) for the entire Brazilian Legal Amazon by visually interpreting satellite imagery from the Landsat Thematic Mapper.

Legal and not punishable crime are all acts in self-defense or otherwise determined by the illegal or criminal conduct of others that happened in the first place ( or omission adequate to protect the staff member who is a victim of illegal crime ).

* Legal case, dispute between opposing parties, being resolved by a court of law

The lawsuit was co-sponsored by the Association of Faith-Based Organizations and argued by the Christian Legal Society.

Legal trades by insiders are common, as employees of publicly traded corporations often have stock or stock options.

* Legal positivism, by contrast to natural law, holds that there is no necessary connection between law and morality and that the force of law comes from some basic social facts although positivists differ on what those facts are.

The Deutsche Rechtsalterthümer ( German Legal Antiquities, 1828 ) was a comprehensive compilation of sources of law from all Germanic languages, whose structure allowed an initial understanding of older German legal traditions not influenced by Roman law.

Legal interpretivism, famously defended in the English speaking world by Ronald Dworkin, claims to have a position different from both natural law and positivism.

** Aquinas ' Moral, Political, and Legal Philosophy, by John Finnis, 2005.

Legal issues over back taxes possibly owed by the PDS on former SED assets were eventually settled in 1995, when an agreement between the PDS and the Independent Commission on Property of Political Parties and Mass Organizations of the GDR was confirmed by the Berlin Administrative Court.

" In Medieval Church Law and the Origins of the Western Legal Tradition: A Tribute to Kenneth Pennington, edited by Wolfgang P. Müller and Mary E. Sommar, 170 – 178.

Legal philosophy as it is currently practiced by academics is primarily Western in its origins and perspective.

* Legal positivism is the view that the law is defined by the social rules or practices that identify certain norms as laws.

* Legal interpretivism is the view, espoused mainly by Ronald Dworkin, that law is not entirely based on social facts, but includes the morally best justification for the institutional facts and practices that we intuitively regard as legal.

* Marxism, Liberalism, And Feminism ( Leftist Legal Thought ) New Delhi, Serials ( 2010 ) by Dr. Jur.

Legal definitions of sanity has been little explored by science and medicine, as the concentration has been on illness.