Sentence examples for lawsuits to decide from inspiring English sources

Voters in California will go to the polls on Oct. 7, unless the election is delayed by pending lawsuits, to decide whether to recall Gov. Gray Davis, and who should replace him if he is removed.

With piles of money and battalions of lawyers and loyalists, the Bush dynasty and the failed Gore presidential team are locked in a grudge match in the same state where they battled for 36 days of recounts and lawsuits to decide the presidency two years ago.

"The Supreme Court has said that it's O.K. to look at the merits of the lawsuit to decide whether to allow it to go forward at the earliest possible moment".

A federal judge in Brooklyn said Tuesday that he would review documents in a case involving a government informer, whose identity was exposed in a separate lawsuit, to decide which items the public may see.

The Justice Department is investigating whether Bristol-Myers and Sanofi tried to conceal from authorities part of a deal they were negotiating with Mr. Sherman to settle a lawsuit to decide the validity of their patent.

The Redstone family's maneuver came on the eve of a hearing in a high-profile lawsuit to decide who will oversee Redstone's controlling shares in the media companies when he dies or becomes incapacitated.

While the Napster lawsuit will try to decide the future of audio property on the Web, the Scour lawsuit has become a symbol of the attempt to control online video content.

Several newspapers are controlled by his political allies or depend on government advertising, as do many television stations, which are subject to lawsuits to be decided by judges aligned with the president.

The bill would allow state courts to decide lawsuits "for damages from personal injury or for wrongful death proximately caused by a denial of a claim for benefits".

If Andersen's insurance is exhausted and its own resources are depleted, the courts handling the lawsuits will probably have to decide what those conditions are and whether Andersen's circumstances meet them.

So in order to evaluate this lawsuit, the court needed to decide whether treatment decisions made by doctors on behalf of an H.M.O. were fiduciary actions of the sort to which the Erisa obligation applied in the first place.