In addition to the initial agreement, Nebus initially sued for partial custody, which involved proving his paternity, and the resulting custody agreement involved decisions about Chase's last name, who he's allowed to call "mommy" and "daddy," and, fatefully, whether he would be allowed to have a foreskin.
Mr. Brown had initially sued for $31 million.
The commission initially sued Mr. Jett more than a decade ago.
Mr. Hobbs initially sued on his own; later, a firm, Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, agreed to represent him pro bono.
Mr. Kaufman initially sued the village of Mamaroneck, and after that case was dismissed, the Kehlers and the association.
Ms. Taymor initially sued in November 2011 on copyright grounds, saying the producers were making money off her ideas and script and owed her more than $1 million.
Ms. Taymor initially sued the producers in November 2011 on copyright grounds, saying they were making money from her ideas and script and owed her more than $1 million.
The Rodriguez family initially sued both Ford and Bridgestone/ Firestone, but it has already settled the portion of the lawsuit against Ford for $6 million.
"The governor is supposed to act immediately," said Donald Specter of the Prison Law Office, which initially sued the state over prison conditions in 1990 and argued in front of the Supreme Court.
The S.E.C. initially sued Mr. Tourre in April 2010, saying he had defrauded investors by not disclosing that the Paulson & Company hedge fund had helped pick the underlying securities for a collateralized debt obligation and planned to bet against them.
The case began in December 2004, when Grace and Digital initially sued Fidelity in Superior Court in California, charging in its filing that Mr. Zhang, then the chairman of China Construction Bank, had been paid a $1 million bribe.
