In the United States, if a person with immunity is alleged to have committed a crime or faces a civil lawsuit, the State Department asks the home country to waive immunity of the alleged offender so that the complaint can be moved to the courts.

Violations of the RICO laws can be alleged in civil lawsuit cases or for criminal charges.

Anti-SLAPP ( strategic lawsuit against public participation ) laws can be applied in an attempt to curb alleged abuses of the legal system by individuals or corporations who utilize the courts as a weapon to retaliate against whistle blowers, victims, or to silence another's speech.

The best time to bring a lawsuit is while the evidence is not lost and as close as possible to the alleged illegal behavior.

In 2011-11, GPHI filed another patent infringement lawsuit against Apple Inc. in Delaware involving more patents than their original patent infringement case against Apple last November, for alleged violation of US patents 6, 650, 327 (' 327 ), (' 145 ) and (' 881 ).

In June 2012, the U. S. Justice Department filed a lawsuit against government officials in Colorado City, Arizona and Hildale, Utah, for alleged civil rights violations, including acting as de-facto agents for the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints-a Mormon sect that split off in order to continue the practice of polygamy-denying ex-members and non-members of the Church access to everything from police services to housing and utilities.

The lawsuit stated 22 causes of action, including fifteen alleged violations of constitutional rights, and sought $ 27 billion in damages.

One well-known example of a dispute over who can be called a Co-Founder can be observed in the story of a lawsuit against Elon Musk by a Co-Founder of Tesla Motors in which it was alleged that he did not have the right to consider himself a Co-Founder merely because he provided a large amount of capital and was instrumental in saving the company from bankruptcy.

In 1996, IHR won a $ 6, 430, 000 judgment in a lawsuit against Carto in which IHR alleged that Carto embezzled $ 7. 5 million that had been left to IHR from the estate of Jean Edison Farrel.

The owners, facing a lawsuit from the City of Ottawa if they moved the Lynx, filed a lawsuit against the City of Ottawa on October 17, 2006, seeking $ 10. 75 million in damages claiming that the city failed to provide enough parking spaces, which, the team alleged, was a violation of its lease.

The WVU lawsuit alleged that the Big East Conference breached its fiduciary duty by allowing several football-playing members to depart, causing the conference to no longer be a major football conference and jeopardizing the conference's continued existence.

The lawsuit, filed in San Bernardino ( Calif .) County Superior Court, alleged that De La Hoya raped a woman, who was 15 at the time, in a hotel room in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, in June 1996.

Plans to bring a Wal-Mart to the community were opposed by some residents, and opposition included two lawsuits by Edgewood residents ( one lawsuit alleged violations of the New Mexico Open Meetings Act ).

Local authorities remain defiant, promising their town will not become a " slot machine " in the face of a new lawsuit stemming from an alleged incident of police brutality during the sweep by a man who was not charged.

In 1994 McLachlan became the target of a lawsuit, when she was sued by Uwe Vandrei, an obsessed fan from Ottawa, who alleged that his letters to her had been the basis of the single " Possession.

A lawsuit filed by the Jewish community in Thessaloniki against 55 alleged collaborators claims that 53 of them were sent to Bergen-Belsen " as a special favor " granted by the Germans.

However, in 1996 the ruling was reversed by the Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit on the basis of the statute of limitations: copyright cases must be brought before a court within three years of the alleged civil violation, and Merchant and Santiago's lawsuit was not filed until 30 years later.

The lawsuit alleged that the game had " transformed No Doubt band members into a virtual karaoke circus act ", singing dozens of songs the group neither wrote, popularized nor approved for use in the game.

They alleged that the ReplayTV 4000 series was part of an “ unlawful scheme ” that “ attacks the fundamental economic underpinnings of free television and basic nonbroadcast services ” according to the lawsuit.

The first cause of action alleged Blockbuster's infringement of U. S. Patent No. 7, 024, 381 ( issued April 4, 2006 ; only hours before the lawsuit was filed ) by copying the " dynamic queue " of DVDs available for each customer, Netflix's method of using the ranked preferences in the queue to send DVDs to subscribers, and Netflix's method permitting the queue to be updated and reordered.

Germany recognizes the so-called whereby the burden of proof is on the alleged infringer in an infringement lawsuit.

In a subsequent fundraising letter the Mackinac Center quoted Battaglieri in his press conference saying about this, “ Frankly I admire what they have done .” The Michigan Education Association filed a lawsuit against the Mackinac Center, which alleged that it had “ misappropriated likenesses ” from the union and its president.

However, the lack of notice of copyright using these marks may have consequences in terms of reduced damages in an infringement lawsuit — using notices of this form may reduce the likelihood of a defense of " innocent infringement " being successful.

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

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.

Arguments made by legal experts stated influence on art style is not copyright infringement. Glass warfare from the website of the St. Petersburg TimesThe Seattle Times: Local News: Glass artist Chihuly's lawsuit tests limits of copyrighting art, a 2005 article from The Seattle Times ; Chihuly settled the lawsuit independently with Rubino initially, and later Kaindl as well. Chihuly, rival glass artist settle dispute a 2006 article from The Seattle Times

In August 2008, Bradley Blakeman, a former aide to George W. Bush, filed a copyright lawsuit in federal court on Long Island over Grammer's movie Swing Vote, claiming that parts of its plot and marketing had been stolen from him.

The show was eventually cancelled due to a copyright infringement lawsuit based on the shows conceptual similarity to Tom Corbett.

Much later, in the midst of the 1988 – 1994 Apple v. Microsoft lawsuit, in which Apple accused Microsoft of violating its copyright by appropriating the use of the " look and feel " of the Apple Macintosh GUI, Xerox also sued Apple on similar grounds.

In October 2007, Stephanie Lenz filed a lawsuit against Universal Music Publishing Group, claiming they were abusing copyright law, after the music publisher had YouTube take down Lenz's home movie in which the Prince song " Let's Go Crazy " played faintly in the background.

The complaint was boilerplate class action language but revolved entirely around the copyright lawsuit and subsequent stock price decline.

Like MP3. com, Robertson's first online music company, MP3tunes. com found itself struggling against a significant copyright infringement lawsuit issued by a major recording label, EMI.

Apple would later go on to sue other companies for similar issues, including their their copyright lawsuit against Microsoft and HP.

In the fall of 1991, Hampton filed a $ 100 million lawsuit, claiming that the play had stolen the copyright on his persona and his story.

This put the project at risk of a copyright infringement lawsuit by Universal.

The inconsistency with which Scott enforced these licences resulted in a lawsuit by Krause Publications ( publishers of the Minkus Catalogue ) for copyright infringement.

Chic's Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards filed a lawsuit for copyright infringement over " Rapper's Delight ," the first of many such legal battles for hip hop.

The other possible explanation is that Kirby was named in honor of Nintendo's legal counsel, John Kirby of Latham & Watkins LLP, who represented them in the courtroom during a copyright infringement lawsuit over Donkey Kong filed by Universal Studios.

Arnold filed an unsuccessful copyright infringement lawsuit but many of his fictional elements were incorporated into the final film.

The Religious Technology Center ( RTC ), the corporation that controls L. Ron Hubbard's copyrighted materials, sued to prevent a Post reporter from describing church teachings at the center of another lawsuit, claiming copyright infringement, trade secret misappropriation, and that the circulation of their " advanced technology " teachings would cause " devastating, cataclysmic spiritual harm " to those not prepared.

In June 2010 Holmes filed a lawsuit in United States District Court, alleging copyright infringement and naming Page as a co-defendant.

Sony perceived VGS as a threat, and filed a lawsuit against Connectix for copyright infringement.

However, Dr. King did register the work the next month as being an unpublished work and after his death his estate filed this lawsuit in order to enforce the copyright.

The ruling that the copyright was in force meant that the case was remanded to the circuit court and the Estate's lawsuit against CBS could proceed.