Sentence examples for a longstanding case from inspiring English sources

About a year ago, Ford settled a longstanding case brought by a Florida company, Paice, that accused Ford of infringing on a 1994 patent for hybrid technology.

The declaration comes in a longstanding case, brought by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), arguing that the government does not provide significant steps for someone caught in the "predictive assessments" to get off the blacklists.

On Wednesday Judge Peter Espinoza of the Los Angeles County Superior Court was supposed to consider Mr. Polanski's request that a longstanding case against him, in which he was found guilty of having sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977, be dismissed.

The same day his article appeared, the World Trade Organization ruled that the United States had not reformed cotton subsidies sufficiently to meet legal obligations in a longstanding case, leaving American agriculture and other domestic industries vulnerable to significant retaliation by Brazil.

While all those associated with the "Harry Potter" film franchise presumably spent the weekend rolling around in their portions of the money minted by the record-breaking opening of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2," a longstanding plagiarism case against the "Harry Potter" author J. K. Rowling has come to an end because of a shortage of funds.

Judge Edward J. Lodge, who was appointed by President George Bush, issued his rulings late on Thursday in the longstanding case of Abdullah al-Kidd, an American who was seized at an airport in 2003, imprisoned for 16 days, repeatedly strip-searched and left naked in his cell.

Even though the company says it has substantially increased the percentages of women in managerial positions, the plaintiffs in the longstanding case said the company should expect several more years of challenges to its employment practices.

As the state has moved toward electronic voting, nothing in this evolution has diminished the longstanding case law and statutory law that the intent of the voter is of paramount concern and should always be given effect if the intent can be determined.

During the terrifying trip, both men overcome their longstanding case of claustrophobia (fear of small spaces), as well as their own differences, resulting in them becoming friends.

It was anticipation over this ruling -- and real concern about how the judge would likely distort longstanding case law to reach it -- that led over one hundred law professors to sign a statement last week expressing their view that the ACA is constitutional.

The participants were mainly recruited by advertising in local newspapers, in contrast to a hospital-based migraine population which may include more severe and longstanding cases.