The developers, saying the city was violating the federal Fair Housing Act, sued.
We still had about two weeks to act, by suing in that state - Mr. Brown's home state -- rather than in New York where the defendants resided.
Years ago, my LulzSec comrades hacked Sony in retaliation for their prosecution of an individual who published information on how to jailbreak the Playstation 3. (Citing the controversial Digital Millennium Copyright Act and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, Sony sued not only the original publisher but attempted to go after everyone who even watched the instructional video on YouTube).
In one of those cases, Lexmark, a printer manufacturer, tried to use the act to sue a company that made compatible ink cartridges.
The case was settled in 2004.Opponents of the use of the Alien Tort Claims Act to sue companies for alleged human-rights violations associated with their operations include the Bush administration and many companies.
David Jones famously used the Trade Practices Act to sue the Australia Institute over a media release and study on advertising and marketing called Corporate Paedophilia – Sexualisation of Children in Australia.
In 1973, with encouragement and financial contributions from supporters, the brothers organized the National Committee to Reopen the Rosenberg Case, using the Freedom of Information Act to sue for the release of F.B.I. files.
God help them if their sex selecting delivered them a football-hating boy or a soccer-mad girl (or even, whisper it softly, a gay child) - what would they do then: use the Trade Descriptions Act to sue?
The US Department of Justice (DOJ), citing the Americans with Disabilities Act, has sued and negotiated millions of dollars in settlements with big brands such as Target, Disney and Netflix, for not designing their websites to accommodate the browsing needs of disabled customers.
Indiana's First Church of Cannabis -- a religion that embraces marijuana as a holy sacrament, newly born under the state's recently enacted and controversial Religious Freedom Restoration Act -- sued the state and the city of Indianapolis this week, claiming the state's marijuana prohibition laws infringe on the church's religious beliefs.
