"litigate" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it when referring to the act of pursuing a legal case in court. For example, "The family is litigating against the company for negligence."
"For you to sit there and say, as you are doing, that 'We couldn't get the money in in the same way as the French and Spanish did' and 'We didn't litigate because we wanted to get the money in' and yet you did worse on the money – it leaves me believing that you are not serving the British taxpayer".
The more modest is to create a registry of people who might eventually be able to file a tort claim for exposure to a toxic substance, to preserve their right to litigate beyond any normal statute of limitation.
Lenders buying bonds governed by the SDRM would lose their right to litigate.
Moreover, both practices breach the basic obligation of fund managers to treat all their investors the same.Mr Spitzer now threatens that he will "litigate until these companies do not exist any more" if mutual funds found guilty of abuses do not fully compensate shareholders for their losses and hand back their management fee.
It can litigate at the Inter-American Court in Costa Rica, whose jurisdiction is recognised by most Latin American countries.In this section Chipping at the foundations Catch me if you can Reframing the debate ReprintsThe tribunal's prohibition on amnesties for the crimes of Latin America's military dictatorships in the 1970s and 1980s has often been cited in court decisions overturning them.
Hold-outs everywhere have greater incentive to litigate; creditors who might have otherwise accepted an exchange offer could find deals picked apart by vultures.Others are more sanguine.
Legal innovations to encourage creditors to take part in restructurings and make it harder for holdouts to litigate have helped.In 2003 Uruguay restructured all its domestic and external debt, exchanging old bonds at par and at the same coupon rate for new ones but stretching maturity dates by five years.
It is a truism of American politics that the advocates of liberal positions on the above issues almost always seek to litigate their policy obsessions, because they know they usually lose at the ballot box.
This could yet save the greens (as well as doing the planet a world of good)."Mandate, regulate, litigate".
So forget a new trade round for now, pursue ongoing talks on agriculture and services, and litigate problems through the dispute settlement process.
Still, there are other areas to litigate and many different ways to extract money from the banks: in his budget proposal on February 13th, for example, Mr Obama imposed a tax on the largest financial institutions.Perhaps the most beneficial bit of the deal is its impact on America's housing market.
