Sentence examples for litigation successes from inspiring English sources

The website for Gibson Dunn, where he is a partner, boasts that, among other notable litigation successes, Walden got a multinational chemical company's department of justice fine reduced by $70m; helped a global financial services firm dodge a New York stock exchange investigation; and got an energy company off the hook of a criminal investigation for insider dealing.

"At a time where market consolidation is swallowing up more independent interests, delivering even more power into the hands of the largest major labels, adding this settlement to the growing list of litigation successes achieved by Merlin on behalf of its members is gratifying," Charles Caldas, Merlin CEO, said in a statement.

League rules that punished players for playing in rival football leagues resulted in litigation; the success of such lawsuits impelled the NFL to negotiate some work rules and minimum payments with the NFLPA.

They, like Mayor Bloomberg, invoked other long public health battles, like those over tobacco and motor vehicle fatalities, to argue that the ruling was a temporary roadblock in a larger war on obesity that would probably take decades, and a lot of litigation, before seeing success.

In what appears to be a cyclical recurrence of post-success litigation, Snapchat is being sued by a man from South Carolina named Frank Reginald Brown IV, who claims that he originally came up with the idea for the ephemeral picture messaging app.

Private litigation has had success as well; the recent $228 million settlement by FedEx of its drivers' misclassification claims is just one strong example.

Litigation experts say the success of those suits and the potential for liability will turn on scientific evidence that neither side yet has.

"It is the methods used by C.C.F.C., some of which have the potential to utilize litigation to achieve this success — in tandem with the shifting focus of the Judge Baker Children's Center — that has led to the current difference of views," the letter said.

"There's not a great track record that litigation is a huge success," said Smith.

"They're being paid by the success of their litigation.

But in the classic music showbusiness model, huge success begat ruinous litigation.