Sentence examples for lawsuit successfully from inspiring English sources

This year, a special election was called for Nov. 7 after a 12-year-old voting rights lawsuit successfully challenged Hempstead's at-large voting system and created six local council districts.

In May, as the Miami case progressed, a strange consortium of industry lobbyists, Florida officials and plaintiffs' lawyers involved in recent state tobacco lawsuits successfully pushed a bill through the Florida Legislature.

Resolving the lawsuits successfully, Zappa ended the 1970s "stronger than ever", by releasing two of his most successful albums in 1979: the best selling album of his career, Sheik Yerbouti, and in Kelley Lowe's opinion the "bona fide masterpiece", Joe's Garage.

But he became a plaintiff in a lawsuit that successfully challenged the Defense of Marriage Act, or DOMA, which was struck down in June by the United States Supreme Court.

Both Dr. Padian and Dr. Miller testified for the plaintiffs in the Dover, Penn., lawsuit that successfully challenged the teaching of intelligent design, an ideological cousin of creationism, in schools there.

It would, she predicted, cause state legislators to reconsider any notions they had of allocating more money to New York City to satisfy a lawsuit that successfully challenged the state's financing formula.

"Our lawsuit will successfully protect eligible Arizonans from being unfairly prevented from registering to vote and participating in federal elections because of unnecessary requirements," Lang said.

The others chose to argue that law enforcement was wrong in defining them as gang members, making their case at an "active participation hearing" — an avenue of recourse that followed a 2009 ACLU lawsuit that successfully argued that people under an injunction in Orange had been denied due process.

In an ongoing David versus Goliath legal battle, Frank Morton, an organic seed breeder in Philomath, Oregon, along with the plaintiffs listed in this lawsuit, have successfully sued the USDA and its Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), for failure to require an environmental impact statement (EIS) prior to deregulation of Monsanto's Roundup Ready sugar beet plant.

In January 2008, after a lawsuit had successfully challenged the initial regulation, the city approved a second health code regulation requiring chain restaurants with 15 or more stores nationwide to provide calorie information prominently on all menus, menu boards, and item tags.

Now, his well-known disdain for fleet owners — whose lawsuits have successfully blocked plans for street-hail service outside Manhattan and a near-uniform taxi fleet — has inspired further litigation.