Throwing dice for money was the cause of many special laws in Rome ; one of these stated that no lawsuit could be filed by a person who allowed gambling in his house, even if he had been cheated or assaulted.

Moreover, although a lawsuit commenced within the time allowed by a limitations period is valid no matter how long it takes for the action to proceed to trial, laches can sometimes be applied even in a situation where a lawsuit has been commenced and any delays would otherwise be reasonable.

Nobel was even involved in a patent infringement lawsuit over cordite.

Where a class action lawsuit is brought, with one named plaintiff actually representing the interests of many others, the case will not become moot even if the named plaintiff ceases to belong to the class that is seeking a remedy.

Atari even hired several programmers from Mattel's Intellivision development studio, prompting a lawsuit by Mattel against Atari that included charges of industrial espionage.

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.

The real-life Fabian threatened a lawsuit at the time of the picture's release, though the filmmakers insisted that the movie presented only fictional characters ( even though Marcucci was a paid consultant on the film ).

The group conducted a bitter year-long public campaign that included an unsuccessful lawsuit against the party and later-disproven allegations against the party ’ s leader and board of directors including fraud, vote-rigging and even theft.

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.

The current president, Traian Băsescu, revoked the award granted to Tudor on May 24, 2007, but a lawsuit is ongoing even after Băsescu's decree was declared constitutional.

When the case is sufficiently complete, the lawsuit opens in court ; however, the parties are not even required to attend the court appearance.

The mere filing or maintenance of a lawsuit, even for an improper purpose, is not a proper basis for an abuse of process action.

One lawsuit cited a memorandum drafted by a Quiznos lawyer in 2003 that stated “ 40 percent of Quiznos units are not breaking even ”, a fact that prospective franchisees say they were never told.

Volna actually settled the Apatit lawsuit in 2002 by paying $ 15 million to the privatization authorities, even though it did not own Apatit stock anymore at the time.

Barber moved forward with the lawsuit even though an investigator found that the Bible Baptist Seminary Board of Directors had created a new junior college in conjunction with the seminary, the seminary was allowed to die and the Arlington Baptist Junior College actually became the Arlington Baptist College.

In extreme cases, a homeowners ' association may file a lawsuit against an owner who violates the covenants or even foreclose the property.

In August 2005, an SEC filing by RealNetworks disclosed that continued use of the Harmony technology put themselves at considerable risk because of the possibility of a lawsuit from Apple, which would be expensive to defend against, even if the court agreed that the technology is legal.

If this lawsuit had been decided the other way, claims based on trademark, or even based on moral rights such as attribution of authorship, could have been used to make it impractical for anyone to use works in the public domain as intended by Article One of the United States Constitution.

However, before the book could be published, Jacqueline Kennedy filed a lawsuit to prevent its publication, even though she had previously authorized it.

As the story unfolds, the lawsuit and its participants are soon locked in a struggle of ethics versus non-ethics, absolutes versus relativism, right versus wrong, and those with interest in this battle are shown to be even in the highest places of government.

The controversy was particularly sharp in Roubaix ( Nord ): the socialist mayor René Vandierendonck even threatened a lawsuit and she wrote two official statements about the matter.

As Russo promised, Hogan never resurfaced in WCW and even filed a lawsuit against Russo for defamation of character ( which was dismissed in 2003 stating that the charges filed against Russo were " groundless " and " were just part of a wrestling storyline ").

Under French law, an association can represent the collective interests of consumers ; however, each claimant must be individually named in the lawsuit.

The store where the teen actually purchased the album was never named in the lawsuit.

Though no lawsuit was brought to trial, lawyers from the team and the auto maker negotiated an ultimately amicable agreement whereby Jaguar would be named the official car of the Jaguars, and the Jaguars would redesign their uniforms.

Total is currently the subject of a lawsuit in French and Belgian courts for the condoning and use of Burman civilian slavery to construct the named pipeline.

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

In 1999 it was one of several private clubs named in a discrimination lawsuit, and was eventually forced to turn over its membership records, though no investigation was ever conducted by the state Human Rights Commission.

It was eventually transferred to his partner in the lawsuit, General John Neville, for whom the island, and the township, is named.

Several leaders of the group " Citizens to Reform Lakewood " were named in the lawsuit.

The change was forced by a trademark dilution lawsuit filed by Georgia Tech, whose yellowjacket mascot is named Buzz.

In early 2000, the label and Biafra were named in a lawsuit brought by his former Dead Kennedys bandmates.

A trademark dispute involving the owners of the identically named Burger King in Mattoon, Illinois, led to a federal lawsuit.

William Penn Patrick was named as a party with Mind Dynamics in the lawsuit.

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.

Initially, it was named the Miami Device by Wahl, but in the end the company wanted to avoid a trademark infringement lawsuit.

Oral Roberts ' son Richard Roberts resigned from the presidency of ORU on November 23, 2007 after being named as a defendant in a lawsuit alleging improper use of university funds for political and personal purposes, and improper use of university resources.

L-3 was named in the lawsuit because it had acquired Titan, which supplied all translators at the prison, while CACI had provided interrogators.

In cooperation with the lawsuit, Garcia was retired and a similar bear named Peace was released.

In June 2007, CIBC was named in a $ 600 million class-action lawsuit regarding the lack of overtime pay to its customer service staff.

The lawsuit — filed in the U. S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas — named the U. S. Department of Homeland Security ( DHS ) and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement ( ICE ) agency as defendants.

The lawsuit named Albert Snyder, Matthew Snyder's father, as plaintiff and Fred W. Phelps, Sr .; Westboro Baptist Church, Inc .; Rebekah Phelps-Davis ; and Shirley Phelps-Roper as defendants, alleging that they were responsible for publishing defamatory information about the Snyder family on the Internet, including statements that Albert and his wife had " raised for the devil " and taught him " to defy his Creator, to divorce, and to commit adultery ".

In June 2008 he spoke of his distress at the news that she had been named as a defence witness in a civil lawsuit brought by the Sumo Association against the tabloid magazine Shukan Gendai over allegations that his father benefited from a thrown match for the championship in 1975, saying, " she will essentially be fighting against me.

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.