As a litigator in the nation's capital, Shahid organized litigation seeking marriage equality for same-sex couples in the State of New York in 2004, and also represented the campaign finance reform community in an ultimately successful appeal before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
That, she said, would run afoul of the long-established federal Anti-Injunction Act, which bars litigation seeking to restrain the assessment or collection of a tax.
It says that "the predicted flood of litigation" seeking to explore the meaning of the 2013 defamation act failed to materialise.
To focus our energies on the future, Congress must bar civil litigation seeking to place blame for the devastating events of the past.
Stripped of his seven Tour de France titles, barred from all Olympic sports, including triathlons, and dropped by his former sponsors, Mr. Armstrong may face civil litigation seeking millions.
Chevron has argued that outtakes from "Crude," depicting what the company says is improper interaction between lawyers for the Ecuadorian plaintiffs and a neutral court-appointed expert, could be useful as Chevron fights litigation seeking $113 billion for environmental damage and the prosecution of two Chevron lawyers in Ecuador.
Michael B. Gerrard, the director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School, told me, "The reason why the litigation seeking certain kinds of relief has not advanced is for a lot of reasons other than courts not accepting that climate change is a real problem".
The Cincinnati-based legal team asked Black to declare that Ohio's gay marriage ban is "facially unconstitutional, invalid and unenforceable," and indicated that following such a ruling, the window would be open for additional litigation seeking to force the state to allow gay couples to marry in Ohio.
An FBI spokesman declined to comment on Aoki, citing litigation seeking additional records about him under the Freedom of Information Act.
