That would be a departure from the litigious wrangling that has tended to dominate the discourse on how culture will be manufactured and used in the digital age.
The Associated Press has reported that Ms. Ayala has had a litigious history that included a settlement for medical expenses for her daughter, who claimed she became sick at an El Pollo Loco restaurant in Las Vegas.
Fleisher had not long before split from his brother, Marc, in a litigious feud that fractured a family made famous in basketball circles by their late father, Larry, the Marvin Miller of hoops.
I have to say this because Taser is a highly litigious company that does not take kindly to criticism, as you shall see.
An entire industry of "patent trolls" profits by suing entrepreneurs who violate patents often registered to litigious companies that do little else other than hold those certificates.
Phillips (trained as an attorney) is well known for his authoritarian and litigious style that permeates the organizations with which he has been associated and which results in carefully controlled messaging and image management as well as the silencing of critics.
Those who show up find an additional challenge to keeping things lively, given that in a litigious age, that durable staple of dinner parties, the innocent flirtation, has become a minefield of signals missed or, worse yet, taken up.
There is one other interesting and slightly odd precedent, the most terrifying example of a litigious child since that brat on Ally McBeal tried to sue God.
Even though the process and cost involved in Chinese IP cases are usually substantially simpler and lower than in the U.S., the numbers demonstrate not only that the Chinese are becoming more litigious, but that the legal and court systems are maturing and being more widely used to resolve disputes.
Mr. Bush's spokesman explains that the president thinks society is "too litigious" and that it is preferable "to reach agreements".
