The team's uniforms prompted a 2003 lawsuit by the Oakland Raiders, who claimed that the NFL and the Panthers had infringed upon key trademark elements of the Raiders ' brand, specifically the silver and black colors.

In June 1987, Rosenthal filed a $ 30 million lawsuit against lawyers he claimed cheated him out of millions of dollars in real estate investments.

In 1998, Grammer filed a lawsuit against Internet Entertainment Group, which Grammer claimed had stolen a videotape of him having sex with a woman from his home.

The lawsuit claimed that Blakeman had given a copyrighted screenplay called Go November to Grammer in 2006, and that Grammer agreed to develop the project and star as a Republican president but instead ended up playing a similar role in Swing Vote, which was released on August 1, 2008.

Lee's lawsuit claimed that she was due royalties for video tapes, a technology that did not exist when she agreed to write and perform for Disney.

The lawsuit claimed Bunge violated the Clean Air Act by constructing major modifications that increased emissions.

That same year Tolhurst filed a lawsuit against Smith and Fiction Records in 1991 over royalties payments, and claimed joint ownership of the name " The Cure " with Smith ; the verdict was handed out in September 1994 in favour of Smith.

The company claimed in the lawsuit, which was filed on 11 August 2005, that Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst incited the audience at the festival to rush the stage.

On January 22, 2011, the team's ownership group claimed it had lost US $ 130 million in the last six years, partially as a result of an ongoing lawsuit with former partner Steve Belkin.

Flynt claimed that he no longer had an interest in the Hustler Shops and that prosecutors had no basis for the lawsuit.

In a lawsuit filed against the school on behalf of the unnamed boy, the AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania claimed the school violated the Americans with Disabilities Act.

In 1899, the city of Redlands won a lawsuit in which the city claimed eminent domain over the Bear Valley water ; the resulting loss of service forced most of Moreno Valley's inhabitants to move.

The town of Southampton is claimed to have spent over $ 732, 000 in legal fees in relation to this lawsuit.

KMT Chairman Lien Chan claimed the KMT was misled into filing the lawsuit against Soong.

Eventually, in an out-of-court settlement reached in 1989, Union Carbide agreed to pay US $ for damages caused in the Bhopal disaster, 15 % of the original claimed in the lawsuit.

Coburn teamed with director Sam Peckinpah for the 1973 film Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid ( they had worked together in 1965 on Major Dundee ; the film's producer, Jerry Bresler, took editing responsibilities away from Peckinpah during post-production, resulting in Peckinpah's becoming furious over what he claimed was the producer's deliberate sabotage of his film, and he threatened the studio with a lawsuit.

The lawsuit, filed on May 5, 2010 on behalf of Youthdale by Harvin Pitch and Jennifer Lake of Teplitsky, Colson LLP claimed that these persons were involved in a conspiracy to, among other things, have Youthdale's licence to operate revoked.

Simon's lawsuit stated that Starbucks publicly announced it was backing out of participation in Hear Music just days before the album came out — a decision that she claimed doomed the record before it was even released.

A subsequent lawsuit by Gamache's handlers claimed Gatti had gained 19 pounds since the weigh-in the day before and thus had a large advantage over Gamache.

His third studio album I Need a Haircut was released on August 27, 1991, on Cold Chillin '/ Warner Bros. Records and was produced by Biz Markie and his cousin Cool V. Sales of the album were already low when Markie was served a lawsuit by Gilbert O ' Sullivan, who claimed that the album's Alone Again featured an unauthorized sample from his hit " Alone Again ( Naturally )".

The lawsuit claimed for Rp. 3 trillion ($ 345 million ) for damages.

However, after the band Living Colour claimed in a lawsuit that the show stole the band's logo and name, the logo was changed to one with rather plain-type letters of three colors.

During a short period prior to the lawsuit ( during May and early-June 2003 ), the company sold what it called " pre-reservations " on flights that it claimed would be chartered between Los Angeles and Honolulu beginning in July 2003, for as low as $ 89 one-way.

The government claimed in a federal lawsuit that Raytheon inflated a contract to upgrade two of four PAVE PAWS sites by proposing to hire higher-skilled employees than were necessary for the job.

The monks gained notoriety years ago when they were threatened with a lawsuit by Starbucks for promoting a monastery coffee labeled, " Christmas Blend ", which Starbucks claimed they owned rights to.

The injury or illness is due to a design hazard, with each having been found to have sold the same type of product in a manner that made it unreasonably dangerous, there is inability to identify the specific manufacturer of the product or products that brought about the Plaintiff ’ s injury or illness and there are enough of manufacturers of the fungible product joined in the lawsuit, to represent a substantial share of the market.

To have a court declare a law unconstitutional, there must be a valid reason for the lawsuit.

With the fact that the Hootses can only use their " Burger King " name in the Mattoon area and that the Burger King chain can use the name in the United States excluding the Mattoon area after a 1968 trademark lawsuit, there is a 20 mile radius centering the Hootses ' Burger King, and the chain cannot have one within the radius.

While gossip columnists ’ " bread and butter " is rumor, innuendo, and allegations of scandalous behavior, there is a fine line between legally acceptable spreading of innuendo and rumor and the making of defamatory statements, which can provoke a lawsuit.

Other than Eric Weissberg and Steve Mandel ( later amended to add Arthur " Guitar Boogie " Smith, per his lawsuit ) for credit on " Dueling Banjos ", there is no credit for any of the soundtrack music.

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.

The lawsuit was later dropped, and Tom Jones is still there to this day.

Since the main Aryan Nations property in Idaho was dismantled following a costly lawsuit against the group and the death of Richard Butler, there have been several struggles over control of the movement that are as yet unresolved.

" GSK officials never commented on whether there was any connection between Senator Grassley's letter and their decision to pursue a settlement with the New York State attorney general's lawsuit.

One of his paintings, The Holy Virgin Mary, a depiction of the Virgin Mary, was at issue in a lawsuit between the mayor of New York City, Rudy Giuliani, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art when it was exhibited there in 1999 as a part of the " Sensation " exhibit.

Two appearances in the Court of Chancery are also noted, and he is known to have been consulted in Roger Newdigate's long-running lawsuit there, but his early court appearances are infrequent.

In his later life Dio had considerable status in Prusa, and there are records of him being involved in an urban renewal lawsuit about 111.

After King & Spalding dropped the case, Attorney General of Virginia Ken Cuccinelli terminated his office's relationship with the firm, writing in a letter to the firm that their " willingness to drop a client, the U. S. House of Representatives, in connection with the lawsuit challenging the Defense of Marriage Act ( DOMA ) was such an obsequious act of weakness that I feel compelled to end your legal association with Virginia so that there is no chance that one of my legal clients will be put in the embarrassing and difficult situation like the client you walked away from, the House of Representatives.

Republican leaders in Washington claimed there were enough disputed votes to change the outcome of the election and filed a lawsuit in Chelan County Superior Court in order to avoid having the case heard in the more liberal Western Washington counties.

During the next three years there was little activity in the lawsuit and the case never went to trial.

She filed several lawsuits on issues over which she felt there was a collusion of church and state in violation of the United States Constitution, including a lawsuit against the city of Baltimore demanding they assess and collect taxes on property owned by the Catholic Church.

Also named in the lawsuit were numerous individuals within the Canucks organization, including Brad May ( Bertuzzi's teammate at the time who was quoted as saying that there would " definitely be a price on Moore's head " after Moore's hit on Näslund ), Brian Burke, Marc Crawford, as well as the Canucks organization as a whole and the Orca Bay Sports and Entertainment company that owned the team.

The students won the lawsuit, but unable to contest financially with further litigation, settled for a pittance: they were permitted to complete their studies on-campus but not live there, and Stanley deigned to go to each student's home to personally apologize.

However, allegations of vote fraud soon surfaced, and after a failed lawsuit by the opposition parties, widespread rioting broke out and there was talk in August and September of a possible coup by Lesotho's small army.

This lawsuit was dismissed by the Ontario Superior Court on June 26, 2009 saying, " In short, the Legislature within its jurisdiction can do everything that is not naturally impossible, and is restrained by no rule human or divine ... prohibition " Thou shalt not steal ," has no legal force upon the sovereign body and there would be no necessity for compensation to be given.

* Third trial ( filed by the state on December 30, 1975, ruled on April 8, 1982, at Supreme Court ): The Supreme Court reversed and remanded the appeal to high court as the curriculum guideline has already been revised since the time of the first lawsuit and as the result there is no longer any merit in requesting reversal of Ministry's decision.

The action of the NHA directors led to Livingstone filing a lawsuit on October 1, 1918 charging that there was a conspiracy among the NHA owners, paid for by the Arena Company to suspend the NHA operations and asking the court to nullify the suspension.

Bates stated that the lawsuit raised " important questions relating to the propriety of actions undertaken by our highest government officials " but also noted that " there can be no serious dispute that the act of rebutting public criticism, such as that levied by Mr. Wilson against the Bush administration's handling of prewar foreign intelligence, by speaking with members of the press is within the scope of defendants ' duties as high-level Executive Branch officials ", even if " the alleged means by which defendants chose to rebut Mr. Wilson's comments and attack his credibility " were perhaps " highly unsavory.

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.