By leaving me everything he wouldn't be doing me a favor, my father told him, and he didn't want to see his daughter involved in a lawsuit.

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

If the person requested to testify ( deponent ) is a party to the lawsuit or someone who works for an involved party, notice of time and place of the examination before trial can be given to the other side's attorney, but if the witness is an independent third party, a subpoena must be served on him / her if he / she is recalcitrant.

The two were involved in a lengthy dispute over ownership of Miracleman, but no lawsuit has been filed in that dispute.

Cormac Laidir MacCarthy, the builder of Blarney Castle, being involved in a lawsuit, appealed to Clíodhna for her assistance.

Moreover, the lake is involved in a longstanding lawsuit between Georgia, Alabama, and Florida.

From 1967 to 1973 the corporation was involved in an acrimonious antitrust lawsuit with Honeywell, Inc. ( see: Honeywell v. Sperry Rand ).

Two other drivers, who were involved and injured in the accident, also filed a lawsuit against Norwood.

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.

In 2010, Tyler Cassity was involved in a lawsuit for fraud in which members of his family, including his brother, were indicted for fraud that allegedly cost funeral consumers and funeral homes up to $ 600 million.

This eventually led to long lawsuit that involved the recall of all existing valves and Pfizer allocating up to US $ 20 million to pay compensation.

Following a class-action lawsuit, the five executives involved were fired.

The book was later adapted for the stage in an episode that involved Twain in a serious lawsuit with the playwright.

Cormac Laidir MacCarthy, the builder of Blarney Castle, being involved in a lawsuit, appealed to Clíodhna for her assistance.

" It was incorrectly reported in 2009 that Volman is currently involved in another lawsuit against rapper Gucci Mane for an unauthorized sample.

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.

That same year, CCR became involved in O ' Donohue v. Canada, a lawsuit filed by one of its members, Tony O ' Donohue.

Whilst involved in a lawsuit, the writer and poet Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745 ), in the slang of his time, described a gruff bailiff as a philistine, someone who is considered a merciless enemy.

From 1992 to 1995, when the university attempted to build a strip mall and student housing on the last undeveloped portion of the campus, the Tongva people filed a lawsuit and initiated a protest, which involved physically occupying the land day and night to stave off bulldozers.

Results of this event sent P-Orridge on a two-year health sabbatical to recover, during which he was involved in a million dollar lawsuit against Rick Rubin, who owned the Houdini Mansion.

If a shareholder of a corporation is personally involved in a lawsuit or bankruptcy, these assets may be protected.

In 1998, television talk-show host Oprah Winfrey and one of her guests, Howard Lyman, were involved in a lawsuit surrounding the Texas version of a food libel law known as the False Disparagement of Perishable Food Products Act of 1995, for a 1996 episode of her show in which the two made disparaging comments about beef in relation to the mad cow scare.

He was also involved in an alienation of affections lawsuit in 1938 involving Carole Landis.

Amir Ageeb or Aamir Ageeb ( c. 1969-May 28, 1999 ) was a Sudanese who was killed while resisting deportation from Germany, leading to a lawsuit against the involved officers.

When the local government sued the landowner for breach of settlement, the landowner contended that enforcement of the settlement was a strategic lawsuit against public participation.

The tale Glanvill told was that a local landowner, John Mompesson, owner of a house in the town of Tedworth ( now called Tidworth, in Wiltshire ), had brought a lawsuit against a local drummer, whom he accused of extorting money by false pretences.

Afterwards Godding would have claimed his rights as landowner and forced Hoffmann to relinquish his ownership through a lawsuit, won by influencing the court.

After a pointed lawsuit with Henry Hucks Gibbs, first Baron Aldenham over who should direct the restoration, Grimthorpe had the vault remade and reproportioned in stone, made the floor in black and white marble ( 1893 ), and had new Victorian arcading and sculpture put below the canopy work.

Cadfael became a man at arms ( foot soldier ) in the war waged by Henry I of England to secure the union with Normandy, and returned again to England in the service of a nobleman, Roger Mauduit, who kidnapped Prior Heribert of Shrewsbury Abbey in an attempt to foil a lawsuit.

The paper initially attracted notoriety in June 1919 with coverage of the libel lawsuit between Henry Ford and the Chicago Tribune, as the stories written by Pipp and Cameron were picked up nationally.

See also an article by Henry R. Plomer, who unearthed in the Record Office an account of a lawsuit ( 1534-35 ) in connection with Rastell's premises at the " Mermaid ".

In 1876, his nomination as ambassador to Great Britain was defeated in the Senate by political enemies, partly because of a lawsuit for plagiarism brought against him for a legal textbook he had edited, Henry Wheaton's Elements of International Law ( 8th ed., 1866 ).

On December 13, 2006, a California book publishing company filed a lawsuit against French Henry, claiming that she did not fulfill her contractual obligations regarding a children's book venture.

In 1897, a Christian missionary, Henry Martyn Clarke, filed a lawsuit of attempted murder against Ahmad at the court of District Magistrate Captain William Douglas in the city of Ludhiana.

In 1988, Prince Ferdinand, Duke of Castro and Prince Sixtus Henry of Bourbon-Parma joined Henri's lawsuit in reference to the use of the title Duke of Anjou, but not in respect to the coat-of-arms.

In 1989 Prince Henri d ' Orléans and Prince Sixtus Henry of Bourbon-Parma appealed the judgment in the lawsuit about the use of a title and arms by Alfonso ; the original judgment in favour of Alfonso was upheld.

For the 2010 tour Dave Robbins returned on keyboards and Henry Paul was involved in a lawsuit brought about by Hughie Thomasson's widow, Mary, which alleged trademark violations.

In cases, however, where a man was deprived or dispossessed of something without the lawful judgement of his equals by our father King Henry or our brother King Richard, and it remains in our hands or is held by others under our warranty, we shall have respite for the period commonly allowed to Crusaders, unless a lawsuit had been begun, or an enquiry had been made at our order, before we took the Cross as a Crusader.

His widow filed a $ 21. 5 million malpractice lawsuit against Henry Ford Hospital in 1972 for not diagnosing his condition when he was hospitalized after complaining of chest pains.

He filed a lawsuit at the court of Emperor Friedrich III ( Frederick III ), whose verdict of 1453 declared the confederation illegal.

In May 1982, a number of citizens whose children had developed or died from leukemia filed a civil lawsuit against two corporations, W. R. Grace and Company and Beatrice Foods.

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

" The lawsuit was also challenging for the Canadian legal system — Vandrei was a self-admitted stalker whose self-acknowledged goal in filing the lawsuit was to be near McLachlan physically.

Lush's cover of The Rubinoos song, " I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend ," ( retitled " I Wanna Be Your Girlfriend " for Lush's authorised version ) was cited in a 2007 lawsuit filed by the Rubinoos against Avril Lavigne, whose song " Girlfriend " bore similarities to the Lush cover of the Rubinoos song.

This led directly to a class-action lawsuit, which was settled in September 2003 by LookSmart offering free clicks to businesses whose websites had been listed under the previous system.

Lee De Forest filed a patent in 1916 that became the cause of a contentious lawsuit with the prolific inventor Armstrong, whose patent for the regenerative circuit had been issued in 1914.

Ledwinka's concept had been copied by Ferdinand Porsche, whose successors later had to acknowledge the influence of Ledwinka's sophisticated Tatra models on the Porsche-designed Kdf-Wagen of 1938 ( later renamed the VW Beetle ), a post-war lawsuit resulting in a DM3, 000, 000 settlement paid by Volkswagen to Ringhoffer-Tatra in 1961.

Nader's lawsuit against GM was ultimately decided by the New York Court of Appeals, whose opinion in the case expanded tort law to cover " overzealous surveillance.

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.

In October 2004, three of Linklater's former classmates from Huntsville High School, whose surnames are Wooderson, Slater, and Floyd, filed a defamation lawsuit against Linklater, claiming to be the basis for the similarly named characters on the film.

In November 2007, Jerome Corsi, Bill Gertz, Robert ( Buzz ) Patterson, Joel Mowbray and Richard Miniter -- five authors whose works have been published by Regnery — filed a lawsuit against the company.

Publix lost a 2001 lawsuit filed by an owner whose property had been contaminated in this manner.

Spurlock points out that although the lawsuit against McDonald's failed ( and subsequently many state legislatures have legislated against product liability actions against producers and distributors of " fast food "), much of the same criticism leveled against the tobacco companies applies to fast food franchises whose product is both physiologically addictive and physically harmful.

Among these were the seven couples who were party to the lawsuit that led to the legalization of same-sex marriage, including Julie Goodridge and Hillary Goodridge, who were the first to apply for a license in Boston and whose eight-year old daughter Annie was their ringbearer and flower girl at their wedding at the Unitarian Universalist Association of Boston.

He was twice married ; first to actress, singer and dancer, Mariana, who had spent six years as a performer in service to the frail and inferm Don Gaston, Duke de Medinaceli, an avowed friar and cleric, whose estate was the subject of a lawsuit filed by Lope de Rueda on his wife's behalf laying claim to six years of back wages.

The re-recordings were the result of a lawsuit brought by original drummer Lee Kerslake and original bassist Bob Daisley ( whose part was re-recorded by Robert Trujillo ) for unpaid royalties.

He shut down the website the following year after a copyright infringement lawsuit from the American broadcasters whose signals were available on the service.

This new substance, " Identium ," serves as a new medium of exchange for skilled labor, in a post-scarcity society otherwise primarily devoted to the pursuit of leisure, science, art, the occasional lawsuit, and the sale and exchange of " Certified Uniques " — objects whose chain of provenance can legally establish that they have never been scanned by a duplicator beam.

The lawsuit noted that the armed struggle was not central to the ideology of the MIR and that it had historically been a political organisation whose strategy had principally involved the mobilization of working class people and the poor in an attempt to exert political pressure to effectuate political and social change to advance their political cause.

He won a major settlement for fishermen in Placentia Bay in a lawsuit against the Electric Reduction Company whose toxic waste damaged the local fishery industry.

This list was prompted by a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed in September 2009 by the American Civil Liberties Union, whose lawyers had also demanded detailed information about conditions, rules and regulations.

Second, the lawsuit temporarily strained Zomba's relationship with BMG, whose distribution deal with Zomba was coming to a close.