The group reported that "aggressions" against journalists — ranging from threats and physical attacks to arbitrary lawsuits — rose to 254 cases in 2014, 46percentt more than the figure reported for the previous year.
These, it says, are often arbitrary and encourage frivolous lawsuits brought by plaintiffs' lawyers on a contingency-fee basis, which allows them to pocket a large slice of the proceeds themselves.
"We have lodged lawsuits for arbitrary detention, exile, destruction of private property, torture and moral violation of civil and political rights". Ms Montas is a prominent Haitian activist and journalist, as well as a former spokeswoman for UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon.
The agency said at the time that this "will give residents and families greater assurances of the care they receive". The nursing-home industry filed suit several weeks later, arguing that opening up the industry to lawsuits was "arbitrary and capricious". The Trump administration didn't require much arm-twisting.
Anyone can announce a lawsuit with an arbitrary figure attached.
In 2001, Judge Michael R. Hogan of Federal District Court in Oregon said that practice was "arbitrary and capricious," ruling in a lawsuit brought by a coalition of property owners unhappy with building restrictions mandated by the act.
Transfers of marital property to third parties, such as a paramour, that are "capricious, excessive, or arbitrary" may be subject to a lawsuit for reimbursement.
Coming to theaters are commercials that are intended to spell out the perils of frivolous lawsuits as told by "everyday Americans," including small-business owners who have been hit with costly lawsuits they believed were arbitrary and abusive.
"This arbitrary cap has created an oligarchy," the lawsuit says.
Meanwhile, he has filed a lawsuit, calling the existing zoning "arbitrary and capricious" and requesting that commissioners be ordered to reconsider his application.
