Sentence examples for private litigant from inspiring English sources

On Friday, Netflix said that it was shelving plans for a second contest — bowing to privacy concerns raised by the F.T.C. and a private litigant.

At Bear Stearns, the first major Wall Street player to collapse, a private litigant says evidence shows that the firm's executives may have pocketed revenues that should have gone to investors to offset losses when complex mortgage securities soured.

See Radovich v. National Football League, 352 U. S. 445, 454 (1957) ("Congress itself has placed the private antitrust litigant in a most favorable position …. In the face of such a policy this Court should not add requirements to burden the private litigant beyond what is specifically set forth by Congress in those laws").

However, even if the SEC or a private litigant can establish jurisdiction, the usual elements for a Rule 10b-5 claim would need to be established, requiring, among other things, that the material misstatement or omission was material to investors and made with "scienter" (i.e., with intent or recklessness).

But it is said that Congress entrusted the vindication of the public interest to private litigants.

But these private litigants have standing only as representatives of the public interest.

Instead, it has long aimed to plant a flag and let private litigants take care of the rest.

Private litigants have drawn a pretty clear road map for the places that this new group might go.

"It certainly assists private litigants and probably increases the pressure on the government to take some kind of action here".

They also sidestep questions about how accessible data should be to private litigants, such as one company suing another.

But their privacy policies acknowledge that they will comply with valid requests from the government and private litigants.