Sentence examples for had been litigating from inspiring English sources

Eric Ruff, a spokesman for the Interior Department in Washington, said the difference between Florida and California was that officials in Florida had been litigating the disputed oil leases there for a longer period.

Officials said they knew of about 75 cases that had been litigated since the 2005 presumption law, and the city had prevailed in about 65 percent.

In 1985, after 9,500 cases had been litigated or settled, the company filed for bankruptcy and set up a $2.3 billion fixed-asset trust fund to deal with the thousands of pending cases.

After becoming a target, environmental groups have pointed to a General Accounting Office report that found that of 1,671 fuel-reduction projects in fiscal year 2001, only one percent were appealed, and none had been litigated.

Mr. Obama said the payment was part of a decades-old dispute with Iran that had been litigated before an international tribunal, adding that his administration publicly disclosed the agreement in January.

That case had been litigated for two years prior to reaching settlement.

African-Americans and Hispanics make up nearly 60% of New Haven's population, and there was a history of discrimination ignored by the Court majority and cited by the dissenters against minorities in the fire department that had been litigated over and settled in the 1970s.

Would the theatrics been any different if the lawsuit had been litigated in the U.S.? Who knows?

"Dredge up old allegations that had been litigated years before, divert attention from the Access Hollywood tape, throw me off my game, and distract voters from the election's unbelievably high stakes.

Over the past few years, courts have been litigating a steady stream of gerrymandering claims.

Mr. Brown has been litigating cases, including class actions, in the financial services industry for more than a decade.