Georgian officials continue to claim that they acted defensively, citing what they call evidence that Russians were poised to invade and were attacking Georgian villages.
They allow a plaintiff to sue a variety of defendants by claiming that they acted together and seek an award of triple damages, a bonanza in some business disputes that can run into millions of dollars.
The women claim that they acted in self-defense after he screamed homophobic epithets, spit on them, and pulled one of their weaves off,[145] while he has described the attack as "a hate crime against a straight man".[146].[146]
So you believe that the market with four competitors can be a functional market, even though some people would claim that they act like oligopolies?
Some who were prosecuted claimed that they had acted out of temporary insanity.
The rebels claimed that they had acted in self-defense.
Judge Rakoff had been skeptical that Mr. Picard could successfully rebut Mr. Wilpon and Mr. Katz's claims that they acted in good faith in their investing with Mr. Madoff.
The judge in the case, Melinda Harmon, ruled that the defendants could be construed as having "substantial participation" in the preparation of false statements about Enron's finances because the evidence supported claims that they acted with an intent to deceive.
Institutions like the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, which agreed this summer to return 40 objects to Italy, have drafted their own guidelines to respond to claims that they acted improperly in past acquisitions.
The interrogators could claim that they had acted in good faith in accord with medical judgments of safety and had not intended to inflict extreme suffering.
