Sentence examples for plaintiff in the first from inspiring English sources

He was the plaintiff in the first case to challenge congressional investigating committees as violating first amendment freedoms.

"We're not interested in a so-called Robin Hood remedy," said Michael A. Rebell, the executive director of the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, the lead plaintiff in the first case, said at the Wednesday news conference.

That eventually closed at $125 million and was renamed Eclipse Ventures Fund, naming Formation 8's Lior Susan and Formation 8 CFO Brett Cummings as executive officers on its Form D. Lonsdale himself had a bit of personal drama resolved this week: a lawsuit accusing him of sexual assault was dropped, and he subsequently dropped a defamation suit he filed against the plaintiff in the first case.

(Olivarius herself was a plaintiff in the first Title IX sexual harassment lawsuits against a university).

What is more noteworthy, however, is that although such cases may have never been winnable for the plaintiff in the first place -- quintessential examples of frivolous lawsuits -- they inevitably resulted in a massive burden on the opposing individual or company.

Unlike the plaintiff in the Third Circuit case, Heathcliffe John Bradley, a New Zealander who arrived in 1996 and had overstayed his visa by 10 years by the time he married, Mr. van Sander always returned to Britain or his parents' home in Solingen, Germany, before the 90 days were up, his wife said.

The 16 plaintiffs in the first phase of the trial had average PCB levels of 46 parts per billion, 27 times the national norm, said Dr. Ian Nisbet, a Massachusetts toxicologist and a consultant for the plaintiffs.

The four plaintiffs in the first case, who challenged Proposition 8, the California measure banning same-sex marriage, are appropriately earnest and striving, young or heading into middle age: a lesbian couple with jobs at a nonprofit and with the county health system, raising four sons; a gay couple, one a personal trainer and fitness expert, the other managing a theatre company.

The ACLU, the plaintiff in the case the second circuit decided, is considering the implications of the new legislation for a follow-on action.

[C3.] Merck Scientist Is Questioned at Vioxx Trial The plaintiff's lawyer in the first Vioxx lawsuit to reach trial confronted his first witness, challenging a senior scientist from the drug maker Merck over the company's marketing practices.

In March 2000, Gene Romero, an agent in Kansas City, Mo., who is the first named plaintiff in the suit filed yesterday, filed the first complaint in the case to the E.E.O.C., accusing the insurer of age discrimination.