Sentence examples for contested lawsuit from inspiring English sources

In the long-running and bitterly contested lawsuit, Trafigura has currently offered to pay anyone from Ivory Coast who can prove the toxic waste actually caused them to fall ill.

As Gov. Jerry Brown last week was assessing the paltry snowfall and proclaiming a hydrological emergency, a San Francisco judge was hearing opposing sides in a bitterly contested lawsuit filed by the San Diego authority against MWD.

A contested lawsuit brought by 11 Indonesians in 2001 who allege that they were tortured and abused by security forces being directed by ExxonMobil during the civil conflict in the country in the late 1990s and early 2000s, was only judged to be permitted to be brought this summer.

It took seven years to get the Beirut municipality to expropriate the building as a museum, and another five years of contested lawsuits and a long fund-raising campaign to cover the preservation costs.

Yet he vigorously contested a lawsuit that challenged financing for urban districts.

In recent weeks, he feuded with his father on HBO, contested numerous lawsuits and defended his legacy so loudly, so often, he seemed a bit jumpy, if not genuinely concerned.

Moreover, the case has a bearing on several other bitterly-contested lawsuits.

Creating a network operating system -- an idea that Microsoft once opposed -- is a real shift in strategy, and a particularly daring one because it strikes at the heart of the bitterly contested federal antitrust lawsuit that Microsoft is now appealing.

One advantage here: The contents of such a trust created outside a will aren't public record — unless the trust is contested in a lawsuit.

The AOSI-Pathfinder lawsuit contested the constitutionality of the policy based on violations of freedom of speech, and the right to be free of compelled speech or of forced agreement with a government position.

Those issues include whether Mr. Gore is really entitled to bring a contest lawsuit -- technically, only the electors for a candidate are on a presidential ballot -- and whether any presidential election can truly be contested under Florida law.