Facts are not themselves obvious: the fact of the fact had to be invented, litigated, and re-litigated.
The four-month trial will be the first time BP has faced a UK court over its actions overseas and the first time compensation for environmental damage to privately owned land, caused by a UK oil company, has been litigated in the UK.
The movie, entitled On the Basis of Sex, will focus on Ginsberg's career, including her position leading the Women's Rights Project, where she litigated landmark cases in front of the supreme court two decades before being appointed to it.
Yet the chances are rising.The countdown started on June 16th, when the Supreme Court of the United States announced that it would not get involved in Argentina's battle with NML Capital, a hedge fund that picked up cheap debt after Argentina's 2001 default and has since litigated for payment of full principal plus interest.
A tangle of resulting claims and counter-claims is being litigated in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, America, Britain, Switzerland and the Cayman Islands.
Every possible linkage with every other possible partner across the divide between application and operating system will have to be monitored and litigated.
He also worked as chief counsel (1983 84) to the New Mexico Department of Health and Environment, where he litigated violations of state environmental and health regulations.
In 1985, after 9,500 cases had been litigated or settled, the company filed for bankruptcy and set up a $2.3 billion fixed-asset trust fund to deal with the thousands of pending cases.
In 1939 the NAACP established as an independent legal arm for the civil rights movement the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, which litigated to the Supreme Court Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, the case that resulted in the high court's landmark 1954 school-desegregation decision.
Res judicata, (Latin: "a thing adjudged"), a thing or matter that has been finally juridically decided on its merits and cannot be litigated again between the same parties.
Apple litigated for years, in vain, to stop Microsoft from copying the "look and feel" of its operating system, though the Mac OS itself drew upon the PARC GUI.
