The phrase "act litigation" is not correct in written English.
It seems to be a conflation of terms and lacks clarity.
Example: "The company decided to pursue act litigation against the competitor for patent infringement."
Alternatives: "file a lawsuit" or "initiate legal action".
Jerry Wilson, a lawyer in central Georgia who has worked in Voting Rights Act litigation for 25 years, was not so sure.
The report used data released by Customs and Border Protection, an arm of the Department of Homeland Security, through Freedom of Information Act litigation, its authors said.
It left it to a federal court in the District of Columbia to make a ruling on the specific Freedom of Information Act litigation.
Although the current administration released critically important documentation of torture and abuse of detainees (many in response to Freedom of Information Act litigation by the American Civil Liberties Union and other public interest organizations), it has staunchly opposed disclosure of other key records.
"I think the All Writs Act litigation is most likely over," says Electronic Frontier Foundation staff attorney Nate Cardozo.
What it doesn't say: the corporation remains an active defendant and intervenor in federal court Clean Water Act litigation.
Once begun, it was widely said, even before the Republicans had acted, litigation could only spawn more litigation and drag on and on, to the detriment of the political system.
Since the FDA hasn't acted, litigation and threatened litigation have become part of CSPI's strategy to force companies to practice what it deems honest labeling and marketing.
Officials overseeing the wall's construction faced a legal and logistical nightmare from the start, according to emails obtained under the Freedom of Information Act and litigation by Denise Gilman, a law professor at the University of Texas.
That, she said, would run afoul of the long-established federal Anti-Injunction Act, which bars litigation seeking to restrain the assessment or collection of a tax.
Representative Keith Wheeler of Illinois recently introduced a bill called the "Ethics in Patent Litigation Act" that would make it the public policy of the state that attorneys should not be able to buy patents themselves for the purpose of suing others if they aren't in the business of any other productive activity.
