The bank, still battling to repair its reputation in the wake of the £290m Libor-rigging scandal in June 2012, has lodged documents in a New York court arguing that the case brought by Eric Schneiderman should be dismissed.
The Trinidadian, one of 14 people charged with accepting bribes and kickbacks estimated at more than $150m over a 24-year period, said he had lodged documents with his lawyers that linked Fifa, its funding and the 2010 election in Trinidad and Tobago.
Charles Green's Sevco consortium has lodged documents with the Scottish Football Association to support its bid for "newco" Rangers' membership.
The RIAA has lodged documents in the ongoing case of the Record Industry vs Jeffrey Howell that argues that ripping music from legally purchased CD's is illegal.
It lodged a document with an international tribunal stating Britain was violating the UN convention on the law of the sea.
Mauritius has lodged a document with an international tribunal accusing Britain of breaching the UN convention on the law of the sea.
Lord Hodge agreed to a continuation for a week but said that if the parties lodged a document settling the action ahead of it the hearing would be discharged.
Hird lodged appeal documents with the court on Thursday morning, and requested an expedited hearing.
Newly lodged court documents, seen by the Observer, allege that Russian criminal syndicates working with the Kremlin planned to abduct London-based Bill Browder, who is mired in a wrangle with the Putin regime over the controversial death of a whistleblower.
Where submissions are lodged as portable document format (PDF) documents, it is necessary to unlock the PDF to open the original text for review of properties (to see who actually authored the document) and body text elements.
As a document lodged in the tobacco archives demonstrates, it was deliberately concocted to divide and discredit environmental campaigns.
