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.

The lawsuit alleged copyright infringement, trademark infringement, and violations of their games ' End User License Agreement ( sometimes referred to as a clickwrap license ) and DMCA anti-circumvention prohibitions, in what would become an important test case for portions of that law.

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.

Another lawsuit, which lists 1, 200 plaintiffs, alleges contamination near PG & E's Kettleman Hills Compressor Station in Kings County, California, along the same pipeline as the Hinkley site.

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 .”

In an attempt to have the Freespire. com site taken down, Robertson had Linspire ( renamed as Digital Cornerstone ) file a lawsuit against Carmony, claiming the site violated trademark law.

In 2010, Robertson lost the lawsuit with the court saying the site did not infringe on any trademarks and was protected as free speech.

ICP filed a lawsuit against Sunnyvale in 2009, seeking the development of low income units at a site in Sunnyvale.

In 1979, Stadium Corp. and Modell were implicated in a lawsuit brought by Browns minority shareholder Robert Gries of Gries Sports Enterprises, who successfully alleged that Stadium Corp. manipulated the Browns ' accounting records to help Stadium Corp. and Modell absorb a loss on real property that had been purchased in the Cleveland suburb of Strongsville as a potential site for a new stadium.

While construction workers prepared the construction site, Miller immediately started the process to cancel the bridge project, sparking threats of another lawsuit from the TPA.

The lawsuit accused the GLSHS of overdeveloping the Whitefish Point Light Station in violation of its federal land patent and the USFWS of not protecting the site.

In an episode that gained wide publicity, the hardware and gaming site HardOCP researched and wrote an extensive article on the company and the operation, and faced a defensive lawsuit in turn.

To accomplish this, Dharmapala initiated a lawsuit against the Brahmin priests who had held control of the site for centuries.

On December 18, 2006, the RIAA, on behalf of EMI, Sony BMG, Universal Music Group, and Warner Music Group filed a US $ 1. 65 trillion lawsuit against the site.

In March 1999, as the dam neared completion, environmental groups filed a lawsuit against the USACE because construction activity at the Seven Oaks site had affected the habitats of two endangered plants, the Santa Ana River woolly star and slender-horned spineflower, and the endangered San Bernardino kangaroo rat.

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 .”

In 2008, the USP filed a Digital Millennium Copyright Act takedown notice, a copyright lawsuit, and a complaint with the World Intellectual Property Organization against a web site created by Savitri Durkee parodying the official USP website.

To accomplish this Dharmapala initiated a lawsuit against the Brahmin priests who had held control of the site for centuries.

In one case, Google ( acting as both an advertiser and advertising network ) won a lawsuit against a Texas company called Auction Experts ( acting as a publisher ), which Google accused of paying people to click on ads that appeared on Auction Experts ' site, costing advertisers $ 50, 000.

Robert Tur said, in the lawsuit, that in one week's time, a version of the video uploaded by a YouTube user was viewed over 1, 000 times via the site, thereby hurting his ability to license the video.

Cablevision went so far as to make a $ 600 million offer to redevelop the stadium site for housing and office space, and joined another lawsuit alleging that the city's environmental study was inaccurate.

Following issuance of building permits by the City of Miami during the last week of January 1999, the Dade Heritage Trust ( Miami-Dade County ’ s largest historic preservation organization ) filed a lawsuit on January 31, 1999, seeking an injunction against further construction on site.

On 2 February 2007, Urban filed a lawsuit against a New Jersey painter by the same name, who has a web site KeithUrban. com.

In 2006 a settlement following a lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union, modified the way the site is administered, and required that the BLM remove religious references from the site and that the Church provide a public entrance to the cove through their property, but independent of the Visitors ' Center.