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.

In one such lawsuit, filed in September 2008, the Center " sue MillerCoors Brewing Company over its malt beverage Sparks, arguing that the caffeine and guarana in the drink are additives that have not been approved by the FDA ," and that the combination of those ingredients with alcohol resulted in " more drunk driving, more injuries, and more sexual assaults.

He founded Drug Safety Canada to advocate for safe prescription drugs, and also initiated a hundred million dollar class action law suit against Johnson & Johnson and Health Canada in 2000, and an individual lawsuit, later settled after a six year court battle.

The May 2007 lawsuit alleged that patients at the Kings County Hospital " are subjected to overcrowded and squalid conditions often accompanied by physical abuse and unnecessary and punitive injections of mind-altering drugs.

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.

Ventura also stated that he had not left Minnesota for over a month at the time the story was published and that he has refused to fly commercially since filing an unsuccessful lawsuit against the TSA earlier that year.

In 1879, Western Union left the telephone business, having lost a patent lawsuit with Bell Telephone Company.

Accum left England after a lawsuit was brought against him.

This solution had been rejected by the Democrats and Republican Secretary of State Sam Reed because Washington's election law contains no re-vote provision, which left a lawsuit the only other option.

Shocked and appalled by the offensive angle, a furious Angle abruptly left the arena and threatened a lawsuit if his name appeared on the same episode as the " crucifixion.

The lawsuit, however, had left Gilbert and Sullivan somewhat embittered, and their last two works together suffered from a less collegial working relationship than the two men had typically enjoyed while writing earlier operas.

He left the company after 16 years of service, filing a lawsuit against it for withholding bonus pay.

Jed is hired to help field a lawsuit against a major auto manufacturer whose station wagons have a dangerous propensity to explode on impact while making a left turn, but while his research indicates he has an all but airtight case against them, the case becomes more complicated for him when he discovers that Maggie is representing the firm he's suing.

The judge asserted that the plaintiffs, despite years of opportunity, had failed to provide any evidence that the affair was a grand conspiracy rather than a bureaucratic mistake, and said that " this court is left to conclude that with the lawsuit, to quote Gertrude Stein, ' there's no there there.

Nackey was initially placed in charge of printing, but the couple left the state in 1952 in the wake of his mother's lawsuit, and moved to Reno, Nevada, where Loeb sued for divorce from McAllister and then married Nackey Gallowhur.

He left the show in 1994, alleging that his departure was a result of his threatening a lawsuit against then-Attorney General Janet Reno, who had cited Law & Order as offensively violent.

An anti-trust lawsuit was filed that year, and eventually the board of directors demoted Ling in 1970, and he left the company, to be replaced by former LTV executive, Paul Thayer.

The lawsuit left Gilbert and Sullivan somewhat embittered, and though they finally collaborated on two more works, these suffered from a less collegial working relationship than the two men had typically enjoyed while writing earlier operas.

Albino left " Los Panchos " in the middle of various disputes and internal group problems, culminating in a lawsuit by the management of Los Panchos against Albino for breach of contract, as well as a countersuit by Albino.

Within the year, however, his fame began to turn sour ; he was implicated in a contentious breach of promise lawsuit in late 1898, which led to heckling at his Scottish performances, and to avoid further scandal left the country to tour the United States and Canada.

An analist assumes the government made the effort in anticipation of a lawsuit by BNP Paribas, to establish that it had left no stone unturned.

After Konnan left TNA in June 2007 any chance of a working relationship disappeared especially given that Konnan has filed a racial discrimination lawsuit against TNA, later dismissed.

However, no lawsuit took place and the Puddin ' Playhouse program continued until its host Justin Barclay left the station in December 2009 for WDZH " AMP Radio " in Detroit.

This led to a brief alliance between Bass and Ivory, which ended abruptly when Bass left the WWF and filed a lawsuit against the organization for sexual harassment, claiming she was sexually assaulted backstage by Steve Lombardi.

On March 24, 2003 a lawsuit was filed against Snoop Dogg, in which a Californian man ( who kept his anonymity for security reasons ) claimed that his life was endangered after the rapper had included, without his permission, a 50 second phone message the plaintiff had left in the album's last track, titled " Pimp Slapp'd ".

" The lawsuit was settled on 23 December with undisclosed terms, but left Jive free to release future * NSYNC albums.