Sentence examples for initiating litigation from inspiring English sources
Starting in the late thirties, his Justice Department took many steps to protect African-Americans, initiating litigation against police brutality, lynching, the poll tax, and the "white primary".
The caveat with such a requirement is that boards can deny the request, thus creating a procedural hurdle to initiating litigation.
At Yale, Brown, George Washington University, Hunter College, Northwestern, and several other schools, students have protested these policies, by initiating litigation, submitting complaints to the Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights, or writing columns in campus newspapers.
IN a growing number of cooperatives and condominiums, the relationships between resident-owners and their elected boards of directors have been breaking down to the point where owners are initiating litigation to settle grievances.
Foreign Minister of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, Tony deBrum, received together with the People of the Marshall Islands the Honorary Right Livelihood Award on 30 November for initiating litigation in the International Court of Justice to ensure the nuclear-armed states uphold their disarmament obligations.
Maryland has initiated litigation.
A member of the local council says the anchors will be removed by any means necessary – even "if we need to initiate litigation against BP".
Having met Samuel Morse in 1832, Jackson later declared that he himself had told Morse the basic principles of the telegraph, and he initiated litigation that continued for years.
"She was a very intelligent person, but her ability to read was destroyed". Mr. Orlikow initiated litigation in the United States against the C.I.A., recruiting the civil liberties lawyer Joseph L. Rauh to take his wife's case.
The lawyers, the source added, believed they had a much better case before Steinbrenner agreed to the commissioner's punishment, including the stipulation that he would not initiate litigation over the sanctions or anything relating to the matter.
Petitioners contend that the Park District, like the Board of Censors in Freedman, must initiate litigation every time it denies a permit and that the ordinance must specify a deadline for judicial review of a challenge to a permit denial.
