Sentence examples for blocking lawsuits from inspiring English sources

The banks have been successful so far in blocking lawsuits seeking to hold them responsible for the extensive losses Mr. Madoff inflicted on his investors.

For example, Holder's Justice Department has continued blocking lawsuits by people who were subjected to extraordinary rendition — the practice of sending suspected terrorists captured abroad to countries known for administering torture — on the ground that such litigation would expose state secrets.

The Bush administration has been going to court to block lawsuits by consumers who say they have been injured by prescription drugs and medical devices.

Unfortunately, Mr. Obama has not dropped overly broad state secrets claims used by the Bush team to try to block lawsuits on rendition, torture and illegal wiretapping.

The Justice Department has continued to block lawsuits involving intelligence matters by invoking "state secrets," and the administration has prosecuted six former government workers for leaking classified information to the press, more than all previous administrations combined.

But he said the government had repeatedly blocked lawsuits challenging counterterrorism programs by invoking what is called the state secrets privilege and telling judges that allowing the cases to proceed would endanger national security.

The opinion said it was unnecessary to decide whether the litigation should be dismissed under the state-secrets privilege, which allows the executive branch to block lawsuits that could reveal national-security information.

It says that keeping the details of rendition and torture from the public "cannot continue to be justified on the basis of national security" and urges the administration to stop citing state secrets to block lawsuits by former detainees.

After her mid-March appointment, she joined a legal team that has battled to restrict detainee rights and has invoked the so-called state secrets privilege to block lawsuits involving surveillance and torture.

(Meanwhile, the U.S. House of Representatives looks likely to pass a bill that would block lawsuits asserting that fast-food chains and others in the food industry are to blame for causing obesity).

Representative Michael Oxley, the Republican chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, played a key role in passing a 1995 law (over Mr. Clinton's veto) that, by blocking investor lawsuits, may have opened the door for a wave of corporate crime.