Sentence examples similar to measures lawsuits from inspiring English sources

"This bill says, 'Don't run off and file a lawsuit if you are fat.' It says, 'Look in the mirror because you're the one to blame.' " REPRESENTATIVE F. JAMES SENSENBRENNER Jr., chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, on a measure that would bar lawsuits against restaurants alleging their food makes customers fat.

Aides to Mr. Abbott, who has supported Republican-backed measures restricting lawsuits, say current law still allows a person sustaining such an injury to recover the same amounts, including money for noneconomic damages like pain and suffering.

Robert Delfay, president of the National Shooting Sports Foundation, the industry's trade organization, said he believed that as president Mr. Bush would work to pass a law protecting gun makers from municipal suits, "based on his actions as governor of Texas," where he signed not only similar legislation but also a tort-reform measure curbing lawsuits against corporations.

For good measure, the lawsuit accuses Fox of "wilful, reckless, intentional and malicious" defamation.

"The chorus sections of Amazing and the infringing Photograph share 39 identical notes – meaning the notes are identical in pitch, rhythmic duration, and placement in the measure," the lawsuit reads.

By any measure, the lawsuit — the first of its kind, lawyers said — is a significant escalation in a battle that has simmered here for years, as homeless advocates contended that the Department of Veterans Affairs was bowing to residents of the property's prosperous Brentwood neighborhood and commercial interests by refusing to rehabilitate abandoned buildings and use them to help veterans.

For good measure, the lawsuit demands compliance from the other four nuclear nations as well -- Israel, India, Pakistan and North Korea -- on the grounds of international law and, well, sanity.

Those measures include joining lawsuits filed by private citizens, like one seeking to throw out thousands of absentee ballots in Seminole County, and another, since dismissed, seeking a re-vote in Palm Beach County.

Tougher measures, such as lawsuits, could boomerang.

The alt-rock goddess measured this, she explained, by the amount of lawsuits she's currently involved in.

Mr. Reid voted proudly against an assault weapons ban in both 1993 and 2004, even as most Senate Democrats voted for it, and voted for a successful 2005 measure that limited lawsuits against gun manufacturers and dealers for negligence.