Judge Gardephe, in his ruling last September, said the two sides had agreed that after the litigation commenced, 849 e-mails and 79 other company documents were found on the laptop computer of Mr. Drapkin's assistant.
The quarter's loss included a $4.9 million expense for previously announced costs incurred in removing professional golfing from its subscription services and a $2.3 million expense for the antitrust litigation, commenced in December but with no trial date yet set.
Indeed, such evidence is often lacking when litigation commences, and case-specific fact-finding can be more efficient precisely because it is more targeted.
We then show that this concept of interest applies to a much larger set of studies, many of which are not explicitly litigation related and are done before any litigation commences.
In an extraordinary twist, but actually the complete opposite of that, litigation was commenced in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Tyler Division, which is known to favor plaintiffs and for its general expertise in patent-related lawsuits.
In the city's preliminary offering for the bonds, it writes, "On or about August 15, 2003, the city intends to commence litigation" to direct the corporation to pay the money.
In China, for example, there was a long history of unofficial legal advisers often young men preparing to take imperial examinations for official appointment who assisted merchants and other laymen in the preparation of legal documents, including those needed to commence litigation.
Using data from actual malpractice lawsuits in different contexts and clinical areas, both studies demonstrate that over and above the importance of good communication, the inability to involve patients in decision-making and to consider their concerns and preferences can incite patients to commence litigation.
If she did not contact the trustee by this Friday, he said, "litigation may be commenced against you".
"Those Guantánamo prisoners who commenced litigation now more than a year ago have to date had no acknowledgement of state responsibility, wherever and however they were unlawfully kidnapped and detained, and whatever the level of involvement of the UK intelligence agencies".
