Sentence examples for down lawsuit from inspiring English sources

VIKINGS PLAY DOWN LAWSUIT The Vikings said a civil lawsuit against some members of Minnesota's ownership group would not affect the team's finances or plans for a new stadium.

In any case, he added, the measure "does not suspend rights, but simply slows down lawsuits".

The state doesn't automatically turn down lawsuits, but it's unusual for lawmakers to vote to allow people to haul the state into court.

The list of this president's invocations of the "state secrets privilege" has already resulted in shutting down lawsuits involving the National Security Agency's illegal wiretapping – Jewel v NSA and Shubert v Obama; extraordinary rendition and assassination – Anwar al-Awlaki; and illegal torture – Binyam Mohamed.

The facts of the case are not novel, but one question it raises is: Does a 26-year-old federal pension law, which managed care companies frequently use to beat down lawsuits by patients, also shield their medical decision-makers from state regulation?

If threats to boycott simmer down, lawsuits could overturn the bill.

Achieving that goal will be impossible if we simply sweep past mistakes under the rug, shutting down lawsuits that threaten to unearth the truth and eschewing a comprehensive, non-partisan inquiry.

The deal in 2000, which was in fact an acquisition of the larger Time Warner by the smaller AOL, led to huge write-downs, lawsuits by shareholders, regulatory scrutiny and a management purge.

He is unlikely to receive it: a federal judge in January shut down his lawsuit, even though he said he would drop the suit in exchange for an apology.

The courts narrowed down the lawsuit and eventually threw it out.

A court in Tatarstan turned down a lawsuit by three Muslim women seeking the right to wear headscarves in their photos for the internal passports that all Russian citizens are required to carry.