Sentence examples for right lawsuits from inspiring English sources

Successful prosecutions could also potentially help shield the city from civil right lawsuits filed by those who were wrongfully arrested during the Ferguson protests.

Withholding services would be certain to prompt civil-rights lawsuits.

Mr. Burge, 62, has been a defendant in 17 civil rights lawsuits filed in federal court.

Grimm's is one of several transgender rights lawsuits currently roiling the federal court.

These human-rights lawsuits are a local manifestation of a growing interest, mostly abroad, in international law.

Civil rights lawsuits may force the New York City police department to re-examine its stop-and-frisk program.

Since the unit's existence was revealed, its practices have been the basis for multiple civil rights lawsuits.

The trespassing arrests are a variant of the broad stop-and-frisk program that has been challenged by civil rights lawsuits filed over the last several years.

The Bloomberg administration has embarked on an aggressive legal strategy intended to curtail the rising number of federal civil-rights lawsuits filed against New York.

Over two decades, according to reports, Steubenville lost or settled forty-eight civil-rights lawsuits, and paid out more than eight hundred thousand dollars in claims.

"U.S. Courts Become Arbiters of Global Rights and Wrongs" (front page, June 21): Critics of human rights lawsuits brought in American courts warn that these lawsuits "export our values".