Protest organiser India Thorogood said they had hoped to leave the beach in place but the embassy had threatened criminal damages charges if it wasn't all cleared away.
The lawsuit, seeking at least $56 million in damages, charges that Mr. Deutsch defamed Mr. Dworin and breached a contract between them by writing disparagingly of Mr. Dworin in his book, "Often Wrong, Never In Doubt" (HarperCollins, 2005).
But by then Mr. Lax had filed his own suit against Mr. Zakarian seeking more than $2 million in damages, charging "breaches of fiduciary duties and misappropriation of funds".
In the Comcast case, subscribers seeking $875 million in damages charged that the company had swapped territory with other cable companies to gain market power and raise prices.
Douglas Clifton, the editor of The Plain Dealer, said that the mayor's behavior was "disappointing" and that the newspaper was deciding whether to sue the city for punitive damages, charging violation of its civil rights.
If the controversy is not resolved, Mr. Harkins said, the developer plans to take the town to State Supreme Court, asking for damages, charging that the town is illegally delaying construction.
It now faces a wave of lawsuits, including one filed at the end of July by the Federal Housing Finance Agency seeking nearly $1 billion in damages, charging that UBS misrepresented the quality of the underlying mortgages.
Still, it is not clear that an overhaul of the fraud act would change the damage charges Mr. Keys is facing.
"Ma'am, because of the nature of the damage charges, I'm going to need to see some photo I.D. for this credit card".
He knew that he had to recover from damaging charges that in the last debate, he had embellished his resume and distorted facts in the service of self-promotion, and his pursuit of redemption was diligent to the point of being comical -- sometimes intentionally so.
Guardian Australia verified court documents and spoke to a number of the lawyers who acted in Abdellatif's 1999 mass trial in Egypt where he was convicted in absentia, to confirm that the murder, explosives and damage charges were non-existent.
