Sentence examples for plaintiff before from inspiring English sources

The injunction was sought by a plaintiff before a criminal court in São Paulo state whose identity was kept secret.

It does not appear that the I.N.S. ever spoke to or interviewed plaintiff before making this determination.

For instance, if I were a plaintiff before your court, would you be less inclined to rule in my favor because my middle name is Beauregard?

In most cases, it's the animal being hurt and not the human, so the judge says, "I'm throwing this case out on the grounds of standing because there is no plaintiff before me who's been injured".

A draft of these written instructions was probably prepared for the plaintiff before he came into court, but there could be no trial until it was accepted by the defendant, for there was always a contractual element about a lawsuit under both the new and the old systems.

"Defensible or not," lamented Laurence Tribe, a Harvard law professor who argued for the plaintiff before the Supreme Court, "the court's fascination, not to say obsession, with the 'number theory' of punitive damages seems here to stay".Courts award punitive damages to punish and deter reprehensible conduct by defendants, over and above compensation to wounded plaintiffs.

Twelve other cases were dropped by the plaintiffs before trial, he said.

There have been plaintiffs before the Supreme Court who made moving and stalwart examples of the principle they were upholding, and plaintiffs who faltered on the job.

The British company will face the wrath of the US Federal Government, several states, various local government authorities and hundreds of independent plaintiffs before Federal Judge Carl Barbier at a court in New Orleans, Louisiana, on Monday.

Judge Mueller took a markedly different view, saying that the plaintiffs before her were overstating the constraints on the ability of therapists to express opinions and noting the state's legitimate role in regulating medical services.

"Plaintiffs never pursued this case as a class action," says the motion, which states later, "An award of preliminary injunctive relief to anyone other than the six Doe plaintiffs before the court would be wholly without justification".