The plaintiffs sought declarations, inter alia, that the Meriam people were entitled to the Murray Islands " as owners ; as possessors ; as occupiers ; or as persons entitled to use and enjoy the said islands ".

It is abundantly clear that plaintiffs sought to harass the individual defendants and destroy the church defendants through massive over-litigation and other highly questionable litigation tactics.

Although the government aggressively, and sometimes successfully, sought to avoid legal liability, several plaintiffs did receive compensation through court order, out-of-court settlement, or acts of Congress.

It is abundantly clear that plaintiffs sought to harass the individual defendants and destroy the church defendants through massive over-litigation and other highly questionable litigation tactics.

" As a basis for the damages sought in the lawsuit, the plaintiffs noted that cattle futures dropped 10 percent the day after the episode, and that beef prices fell from 62 cents to 55 cents per pound.

Engler's attorneys argued that the rancher lost $ 6. 7 million, and the plaintiffs sought to recoup total losses of more than $ 12 million.

* 10 — The United States Supreme Court issues its ruling in Baker v. Nelson, in which the plaintiffs sought to have Minnesota's restriction of marriage to different-sex couples declared unconstitutional.

The demurrer was described as entirely technical, and gave a number of reasons why the court should not afford the plaintiffs the relief they sought.

The plaintiffs had sought more than $ 1. 5 billion in damages.

The plaintiffs, 8 movie studios, successfully sought an injunction against the distribution of DeCSS, a program capable of decrypting content protected using the Content Scramble System ( a DRM scheme commonly used to protect DVDs.

The plaintiffs sought declaratory and injunctive relief that would have prevented the manufacture, importation or distribution of DAT recorders or media in the United States.

* First, the Court noted that the plaintiffs were asserting that the entire registration system was unconstitutional, but the only relief they sought was to be registered.

Just before the second trial, the plaintiffs dropped their demand for damages and sought only an injunction.

The government sought certiorari, and challenged the plaintiff's standing on the grounds that the plaintiffs had suffered no ' injury in fact '; that if the plaintiffs had any injury it was not fairly traceable to the FEC decision ; and that a decision in favor of the plaintiffs would not redress their injury.

This offer was refused and subsequently, the plaintiffs sought to accept the initial offer.

In Riggs, a probate suit, the plaintiffs, Mrs. Riggs and Mrs. Preston, sought to invalidate the will of their father Francis B. Palmer ; testated on August 13, 1880.

The plaintiffs sought specific performance of that contract.

The plaintiffs subsequently requested the Supreme Court review.

The Supreme Court has the power to review, vary, affirm, or discard decisions of the Court of Appeal, may order retrials, and may award costs to defendants and plaintiffs.

In February 1981, the court ruled in favor of the plaintiffs in stating the routing to Rosecroft could not be undertaken until it went through public review.

Although Americans normally take for granted the right to testify on their behalf, plaintiffs have no right to present live testimony in ERISA bench trials, in which the judge simply reads through the documents which formed the record originally before the ERISA plan administrator and performs de novo review.

The plaintiffs asked the Supreme Court to review the Ninth Circuit's decision, and it agreed to do so.

In November 2001, the National Security Archive, the American Historical Association and other plaintiffs filed a lawsuit in the D. C. District Court against the National Archives and Records Administration and the Archivist, claiming constitutional problems with the order, and pointing out that " access to materials may be delayed for an unlimited period of time after the expiration of the 12-year restriction period while a former president and the incumbent president ‘ review ’ materials proposed for release ", because of § 3 ( b ) of the order, which states

The Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reinstated some of the plaintiffs claims in 2005, and the Supreme Court declined in January 2006 to grant certiorari to review that ruling.

On March 3, 2006, the plaintiffs filed a Conditional Cross-Petition for a Writ of Certiorari, asking the Supreme Court, if it grants the Governor's petition, to also grant theirs ; and review all the " standing " orders including those dismissing plaintiffs ' " very important and fundamental " trust beneficiary standing, as well as the unprecedented orders restricting their state taxpayer standing.

" and concluded " since § 514 has altered the traditional contours of copyright protection in a manner that implicates plaintiffs ’ right to free expression, it must be subject to First Amendment review.

On October 26, 2010, popular free-software gnutella servent LimeWire was ordered shut down by Judge Kimba Wood of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York when she signed a Consent Injunction which LimeWire and recording industry plaintiffs had agreed upon.

The plaintiffs appealed the decision of the district court to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, filing their initial brief on May 22, 2000, and arguing the case on October 5 of the same year in front of a three-judge panel.

In 2005 the NCSE assisted the plaintiffs in Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, the most prominent case testing the constitutionality of intelligent design in public school science classes, and put their extensive library of creationist materials at the plaintiffs ' disposal.

This would eventually lead to another court case, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, which went to trial on September 26, 2005 and was decided in U. S. District Court on December 20, 2005 in favor of the plaintiffs, who charged that a mandate that intelligent design be taught was an unconstitutional establishment of religion.

The state verdict was appealed to the U. S. District Court, which ruled for the plaintiffs, a decision the school district and the state appealed.

On February 24, District Court Judge Naomi Buchwald dismissed the lawsuit and in her ruling criticized the plaintiffs for a " transparent effort to create a controversy where none exists.

In October 2007 the US District Court ordered the parties first to take their challenge to the Omaha Tribal Courts, as part of the " tribal exhaustion doctrine " established by federal precedent, and denied the plaintiffs ' request for dismissal.

Levy personally funded the plaintiffs ' successful Supreme Court challenge to the District of Columbia's gun ban ( District of Columbia v. Heller ), on the basis of the Second Amendment.

On 27 September 2006, Judge Steven Wilson of the United States District Court for the Central District of California granted summary judgment to the plaintiffs as to StreamCast's liability.

In American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression v. Strickland, plaintiffs American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression, joined by various publishers, retailers, and web site operators, sued Ohio ’ s Attorney General and Ohio county prosecutors in United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio.

The Washington D. C. District Court issued an injunction against the CCA and the case was later settled with money paid to the African-American plaintiffs.

* Robbins v. Lower Merion School District ( U. S. Eastern District of Pennsylvania ), where plaintiffs charged two suburban Philadelphia high schools secretly spied on students by surreptitiously and remotely activating webcams embedded in school-issued laptops the students were using at home, violating the Act.

* JPFO filed an Amicus Curiae brief, on behalf of the plaintiffs, in the landmark 2008 U. S. Supreme Court case District of Columbia v. Heller.

In the 2010 Robbins v. Lower Merion School District " WebcamGate " case, plaintiffs charged two suburban Philadelphia high schools with secretly spying on students – by surreptitiously activating iSight webcams embedded in MacBook laptops issued to students – infringeing on their privacy rights.

In a case involving Richard McLaren and his wife Evelyn as plaintiffs, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia ruled, on April 30, 1998: " Despite plaintiffs ' argument ..... n 1845, Texas became the 28th state of the United States of America.