The music industry thought tough talk, hard-knuckle litigation and lobbying Congress could stop the forces unleashed by Shawn Fanning, the teenager behind Napster.
The publication of the memo is a victory for transparency – the result of hard-fought litigation by the American Civil Liberties Union and the New York Times.
Not on a par with Jarndyce v. Jarndyce, to be sure, but almost 15 years of hard-fought litigation, in several courts, and with rafts of lawyers.
Louisiana attorney general James Buddy Caldwellll said: "This agreement is the result of five years of hard-fought litigation and intense scientific research, and it provides Louisiana the coastal restoration and compensation it needs following the Deepwater Horizon disaster".
The individual cases, like the federal case, rely on documents discovered during hard-fought litigation over state claims which indicate that the tobacco industry falsely asserted that nicotine was not addictive, and wrongly denied that the companies were intentionally marketing their products to children.
After more than a decade of what class-action lawyers describe as "hard-fought litigation," a group of survivors of Canada's notorious residential school system — which systematically ripped Indigenous children from their families in an assimilation effort — has reached a $50-million 50-million with the federal government.
Often the hardest part about litigation is making the decision to take it on in the first place and that has a lot to do with how much the whole affair might cost.
The peripatetic Parcells improved the Pats, then departed for the Jets, followed by litigation and hard feelings.
But enforcing that ruling in the US could be just as hard as filing domestic litigation.
"Litigation is hard for anybody, so we strive to maintain open lines of communication, while handling matters in a trustworthy, result-oriented, and cost-efficient manner.
