Sentence examples for engaging in litigation from inspiring English sources
The lawyers retained the right to sue on behalf of their clients over eligibility for specific benefits, but they were prohibited from engaging in "litigation, lobbying or rule-making involving an effort to reform a federal or state welfare system".
Engaging in litigation means other VCs will be very hesitant to invest in them in the future.
Human Rights Watch reports that SHU confinement is liberally wielded as retribution for nonviolent or political acts such as voicing protest of prison conditions, assisting other prisoners in habeas corpus appeals, or engaging in litigation against the prison.
Apple is a member of the Business Software Alliance (BSA), whose principal activity is trying to stop copyright infringement of software produced by BSA members; Apple treats all its intellectual property as a business asset, engaging in litigation as one method among many to police its assets and to respond to claims by others against it.
In a statement it said: "The council is currently engaged in litigation with its contractors and in the conduct of an internal disciplinary process.
As the Reuters legal blogger, Alison Frankel, put it last June, when Posner rendered his withering decision, "Would any rational economic actor engage in litigation under those terms, spending millions on an apparently impossible quest" to satisfy Posner's damages criteria?
Although Mr. Wade was ultimately able to build his house, he is now engaged in litigation with the seller -- whose lawyer says that Mr. Wade knew about the soil conditions before making the purchase -- to recover the extra excavation costs he incurred.
The committee made a similar recommendation, but, according to Banzhaf, the major health organizations reconsidered their position and again declined to use their funds to engage in litigation on cigarettes.
The former legal manager at the News of the World, who ordered the surveillance of two solicitors engaged in litigation against the newspaper for phone hacking, has been cleared of professional misconduct after a disciplinary tribunal unanimously rejected all charges against him.
While insisting that his statements did not necessarily apply to the Microsoft case, he said: "The president-elect believes that our society and our government too often engage in litigation to solve problems, and he thinks that, in and of itself, is a problem.
