On Thursday, Mr. Lewis, the lawyer, said that he planned for the first time to sue on behalf of alleged victims in the United States, the center of Mr. Murdoch's global media empire.
Congress passed the 1964 Civil Rights Act, pushed by President Lyndon B. Johnson, which prohibited segregated lunch counters, buses and parks and allowed the Department of Justice for the first time to sue school districts to force integration.
LONDON — A high-profile British lawyer who has been closely involved in pursuing the hacking scandal at Rupert Murdoch's British tabloids said on Thursday that he planned for the first time to sue on behalf of alleged victims in the United States, the center of Mr. Murdoch's global media empire.
Mark Lewis, the lawyer who has been a driving force in litigating the phone-hacking scandal at Rupert Murdoch's British tabloids, said on Thursday that he would for the first time be suing on behalf of alleged victims in the United States, Alan Cowell reported.
Sihame Assbague, spokeswoman of the group Stop le Contrôle au Faciès which campaigns against police racial profiling, said: "Even before the current climate, this was a very important case – the first time citizens sued the French state for racial profiling in police checks..
The first time he sued Google, he lost his lawyer and voluntarily dismissed the lawsuit, which led to a $6,000 sanction against him.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 — House Democrats introduced legislation on Monday that would for the first time let homeowners sue Wall Street firms for relief from mortgages that the borrowers never had a realistic chance of repaying.
Not only is this the first time someone is suing him, but he is also being sued under the RICO statute and one of the someones suing him is Stephen Bronfman.
This is not the first time Wakefield has sued Deer for libel.
Amazon has been aggressively pursuing reviewers it does not consider genuine over the last year, often using lawsuits to discourage the buying and selling of reviews, but this is the first time it has sued the sellers themselves.
The Beacham case will be the first time someone has sued a debt collector for their use of Facebook and the first time someone has put through a motion to enjoin the use of Facebook to contact a debtor's family and friends.
