Sentence examples for lawsuit setting from inspiring English sources

Pleading, in law, written presentation by a litigant in a lawsuit setting forth the facts upon which he claims legal relief or challenges the claims of his opponent.

A Miami jury has awarded $6.9 million to two smokers in a class-action tobacco lawsuit, setting the stage for a huge punitive-damage award against the industry.

The lawsuit, set for trial next year in Federal District Court in Austin, Tex., claimed that a third of the program's students said on evaluation forms that they had been pressured to join a church or change their beliefs.

The lawsuit sets out that streaming "can only be fairly described as 'transmissions' or 'broadcasts' and, upon information and belief, are so described in the licences or other agreements between Sony and the streaming services".

Indeed, with Mr. Porrino's once modest lawsuit set to come to trial, the cast of characters in one man's conspiracy tale has grown to include the mayor of Englewood Cliffs and his son, a bank president and his son, five members of the Borough Council and three members of the Planning Board.

She said most of the cases against officers are still being held up in court three years later including a class action lawsuit set to deal with protester complaints en masse, before an Ontario judge court rejected it, saying it needed to be split up into individual cases.

Like other officers wrapped up in high-profile incidents of police brutality, Fields has a history of excessive force allegations, the New York Times has reported, including an ongoing lawsuit set to go to trial in January in which he's accused of unfairly targeting black kids for allegations of gang activity.

A lawsuit set to go to trial in October 2005 has been filed against nine tattoo ink companies for violations of California's Proposition 65, which requires that Californians be warned before exposure to chemicals causing cancer, birth defects, or other reproductive harm.

The Times said the messages will probably play a key role in two lawsuits set for trial next year.

Texas also has controversial non-economic damages caps for medical malpractice lawsuits, set at $250,000, in an attempt to "curb rising malpractice premiums, and control escalating healthcare costs".

But the private lenders and some feisty state regulators were able to persuade the courts to let the lawsuits continue, setting the stage for yesterday's settlement.