Pleading, in law, written presentation by a litigant in a lawsuit setting forth the facts upon which he claims legal relief or challenges the claims of his opponent.
A Miami jury has awarded $6.9 million to two smokers in a class-action tobacco lawsuit, setting the stage for a huge punitive-damage award against the industry.
However, unless Blackstone wants to do this deal, these latest developments are all about A.D.S. setting up a lawsuit for the $170 million reverse termination fee on the grounds that Blackstone failed to use "reasonable best efforts" to complete the transaction.
Just miles from the Gosses, a similar uproar greeted a decision last month by the City of Tyler, which, with little notice to residents, agreed to lease its wholly owned west-lake shoreline for gas drilling for the first time, setting off a lawsuit over what could be as many as 136 wells in forests where bald eagles winter.
They run and squat on command, dodge turbocharged projectiles and routinely endure abuse that would set off lawsuits at any other job site.
After all, Mr. Carlucci, who became chairman and chief executive of News America in 1997, had overseen a division that had drawn the scrutiny of government investigators and set off lawsuits that chipped away at the bottom line.
Such a move would inevitably set off lawsuits from states that benefit from the Missouri's waters, arguing that the administration was violating the laws governing federally mandated uses of the Missouri.
As part of the settlement, the city agreed to set aside lawsuits that sought to place key Garcetti allies on the nonprofit boards — a move that could help speed access to the financial records.
Radio station KGFJ in Los Angeles sought to hire him away, leading to a precedent-setting lawsuit that changed the way disc-jockey contracts were written.
It tracks their precedent-setting lawsuit against Robert Mugabe, the authoritarian Zimbabwean president, in a regional African court, as well as events on the ground in Zimbabwe: intimidation, threats and violence against the white farmers still holding out after a decade of land seizures by the government.
(I thought ruefully that you could bet a million dollars that, if he were in a school in New York, there would be a Nap-Averse Support Group, a special room for the dormitively challenged, and a precedent-setting lawsuit launched by the attorney father of an earlier child, guaranteeing the right of every child to refuse a nap. But this was Paris: strictly no nap, no school).
