The phrase "actions for damages" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in legal contexts to refer to legal claims or lawsuits seeking compensation for harm or loss.
Example: "The plaintiff filed actions for damages against the defendant for breach of contract."
Alternatives: "claims for compensation" or "lawsuits for damages."
The Statute of Gloucester (1278) limited the jurisdiction of local courts and extended the scope of actions for damages.
What's more, supporting civil actions for damages would have allowed the facts of torture to emerge through judicial proceedings, avoiding the political conflict of direct executive involvement.
Parmalat has not yet launched actions for damages in Italy, for example, because, once begun, no further evidence can be submitted.
"As late as 1965, there was no employment-discrimination litigation, no class actions for damages suits, no environmental law and no campaign-finance limitations," observes Richard Epstein, a legal scholar at the conservative Hoover Institution.
This requirement has special force in the context of the 11th Amendment, which protects a state's fiscal integrity from federal intrusion by vesting the states with immunity from private actions for damages pursuant to federal laws.
But a range of civil proceedings dealing with the legacy of the conflict would be affected, including any future judicial reviews of investigations into conflict-related deaths, challenges relating to decisions not to prosecute, and civil actions for damages that concern miscarriages of justice, cases of ill-treatment or unlawful killings.
Iatrogenic injury of the inferior alveolar or lingual nerves frequently leads to legal actions for damage and compensation for personal suffering.
Legal action for damages would have to start with the 90 fossil fuel companies that are estimated to be responsible for two-thirds of all carbon emissions.
But, what the law did not allow was a right of action for damages for errors in a police investigation, the counsel said.
A more likely sanction would be a civil action for damages by those whom charges were brought against and maybe even those affected by the crime.
"I don't see how you extrapolate from the language of the statute to a private cause of action for damages," Justice O'Connor said.
