The FSTA filed an amicus curiae in support of CBC, also arguing that if MLBAM won the lawsuit it would have a dramatic impact on the industry, which was largely ignored by the major sports leagues for years while a number of smaller entrepreneurs grew it into a multi-billion dollar industry, and a ruling could allow the MLBAM to have a monopoly over the industry.

A plaintiff ( Π in legal shorthand ), also known as a claimant or complainant, is the term used in some jurisdictions for the party who initiates a lawsuit ( also known as an action ) before a court.

Waits has also filed a lawsuit unrelated to music.

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.

SCI also settled a separate class-action lawsuit on behalf of 350 families for $ 100 million.

They also threatened with a multi-million dollar lawsuit, but both suits were dropped due to the band members ' personal lives.

A Federal lawsuit ( joined by Green, Libertarian, and other parties ) enjoined the Board of Elections from discarding enrollment records of these disqualified parties, and also required modifications to allow voters to register themselves in non-ballot parties.

The Herzigs ' research was also valuable in their work with the National Coalition for Japanese American Redress ( NCJAR ), which filed a class-action lawsuit against the US Government on behalf of the incarcerees.

Falun Gong practitioners and their supporters also filed a lawsuit in May 2011 against the technology company Cisco Systems, alleging that the company helped design and implement a surveillance system for the Chinese government to suppress Falun Gong ( Cisco denied customizing their technology for this purpose ).

The intermeddling of recovery agents in the lawsuit also presents ethical problems to lawyers, who may have undermined impartiality in advising on settlement.

" On the day of the music club's shutdown, a lawsuit was filed against Prince by the British company HM Publishing ( owners of the Nature Publishing Group, also NPG ).

In the same month it won its lawsuit against IBM, CDC also announced its new computer, the CDC 7600 ( previously referred to as the 6800 within CDC ).

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.

Ventura warned that he was considering a lawsuit against TMZ over the article, which has since been taken off their website and he also denounced the rumors as a smear campaign against him.

Several cases have sought accounting of such funds from the departments of Interior ( in which the Minerals Management Service also has a role ) and Treasury in what has been a 15-year-old lawsuit.

However, in November 2005, Deloitte persuaded creditor Abu Dhabi to drop its claims against the Bank of England, except for a claim for return of its deposits, in that Abu Dhabi owned 77 % of the bank shares at closing, and was therefore also facing a major lawsuit.

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 .”

The product was initially also named " Granula ", but changed to " Granola " after a lawsuit.

Arum also filed a lawsuit HBO for overstepping its boundaries in the sport by becoming a defacto promoter while trying to intentionally eliminate him as a promoter.

At first the parents are reluctant to do so, but eventually they are persuaded by the lawyer that filing a class action lawsuit would ease their minds and also be the right thing to do.

In one interview cited in the libel lawsuit, Irving also stated that he would be " willing to put signature " to the " fact " that " a great deal of control over the world is exercised by Jews ".

This film, financed partly by Moore's mortgaging of his home and partly by the settlement money from a lawsuit he filed against Mother Jones for wrongful termination, was meant to be a personal statement over his anger not just at GM, but also the economic policies and social attitudes of the United States government during the Reagan era, which allows a corporation to remove the largest source of income from an entire town.

Critics also allege that the Church uses litigation as a cover for intimidation tactics, such as investigating the criminal records of opponents ( or lack thereof ) and subjecting them to surveillance and invasive inquiries, both to discourage further criticism and to ensure the opponent's unwillingness to fight the lawsuit.

The lawsuit also implicates the towns in housing discrimination — like the water authority's refusal to run water to new properties owned by non-FLDS members — and other town entities for routine denial of access to public facilities.

Class actions may offer a number of advantages because they aggregate a large number of individualized claims into one representational lawsuit.

The lawsuit claims that waste sludge from the production of leather, containing high levels of hexavalent chromium, was distributed to farmers in northwest Missouri to use as fertilizer on their fields.

The lawsuit claims that Blakeman's copyrighted screenplay had the same basic plot as Swing Vote.

Irene Bolam, who had been a banker in New York during the 1940s, denied being Earhart, filed a lawsuit requesting $ 1. 5 million in damages and submitted a lengthy affidavit in which she refuted the claims.

The lawsuit was thrown out in 1993 based on the fact that the man who brought the suit was not a chieftain, contrary to his claims, and had no standing to bring the suit.

A lawsuit or ( much less commonly ) " suit in law " is a civil action brought in a court of law in which a plaintiff, a party who claims to have incurred loss as a result of a defendant's actions, demands a legal or equitable remedy.

Failure to comply with the procedural rules may result in serious limitations upon the ability to present claims or defenses at any subsequent trial, or even dismissal of the lawsuit.

Within a " single " lawsuit, there can be any number of claims and defenses ( all based on numerous laws ) between any number of plaintiffs or defendants, each of whom can bring any number of cross-claims and counterclaims against each other, and even bring additional parties into the suit on either side after it progresses.

Discovery is meant to eliminate surprises and clarify what the lawsuit is about, and to make the parties realize they should settle or drop frivolous claims and defenses.

In another lawsuit, Novell claims that Microsoft had " deliberately targeted and destroyed " its WordPerfect and QuattroPro programs to protect its Windows operating system monopoly.

Bergman vehemently disagrees, and claims that the reason CBS Corporate is leaning on CBS News to edit the interview is because they fear that the prospect of a multi-billion dollar lawsuit could jeopardize the sale of CBS to Westinghouse.

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.

On May 30, 2006, Voorhies filed a lawsuit against The National Enquirer for libel over an article that included claims she had a drug problem.

Vestiges of Sequent's innovations live on in the form of data clustering software from PolyServe, various projects within OSDL, IBM contributions to the Linux kernel, and claims in the SCO v. IBM lawsuit.

A Quiet title action is a lawsuit to settle competing claims or rights to real property, for example, missing heirs, tenants, reverters, remainders and lien holders all competing to get ownership to the house or land.

After Novell responded by denying they had sold copyrights to SCO, SCO filed a new lawsuit, SCO v. Novell, alleging slander of title, and later other claims.

Charles Moeller, president of parent company Grand Sheet Metal Products, was acquitted on arson charges, but in a civil lawsuit, a jury in 1988 ruled the insurer did not have to pay claims on the fire because a preponderance of evidence showed the company's top officials arranged the fire to claim insurance money.

Here is a copy of the original lawsuit and here is the article showing it became the California false claims suit:

In September 2001, a group of Ecuadorian farmers filed a class-action lawsuit against DynCorp under the Alien Tort Claims Act ( ATCA ), the Torture Victim Protection Act and state law claims in US federal court in the District of Columbia.

* SCO v. IBM Linux lawsuit: Reuters have reported that Red Hat intends to start legal action against SCO to establish that SCO's claims against the Linux operating system are invalid.

Despite growing support for Idris's case in the US and Britain, Washington refuses to retract any of its claims and is contesting the lawsuit.

On August 2, 2005 CIBC paid US $ 2. 4 billion to settle a class action lawsuit brought by a group of pension funds and investment managers, including the University of California, which claims that " systematic fraud by Enron and its officers led to the loss of billions and the collapse of the company.

During the run-off period, Chambliss received a subpoena regarding the investigation of a lawsuit against Imperial Sugar that claims that Imperial " wrongfully " failed to remove hazards that caused the disaster of a Savannah-based sugar refinery that exploded on February 7, 2008.