Sentence examples for statute suits from inspiring English sources

For instance Michael Sheehan, the assistant secretary of defense for special operations, said war against Al Qaeda would continue "at least 10 to 20 years" and that the statute "suits us very well".

The statute authorizes suits against the insurance companies in the California courts.

Most of the state laws are broader than the Texas statute and allow suits in a wider range of disputes.

The aim of the statute — which allows suits for "any civil action by an alien for a tort only, committed in violation of the law of nations or a treaty of the United States" — was to help enhance this role.

That is the central phrase in the Alien Tort Statute, which authorizes suits "for a tort only committed in violation of the law of nations or a treaty of the United States".

(In Den Hollander v. Flash Dancers Topless Club et al., Den Hollander sued his ex-wife and her employer under the auspices of a civil RICO statute. The suit was dismissed).

But under the state's statute of limitations, civil suits must be filed within one year and 90 days after an incident.

While the statute could properly permit suits under evolving principles of international law, the brief said, federal courts should refrain if a case could be pursued within a plaintiff's home country.

Besides calling for a $250,000 cap on jury awards for pain and suffering, doctors and hospitals want to be able to pay out big settlements over years, have expert panels weed out frivolous lawsuits, and set a statute of limitations on suits involving children, which currently can be filed up to age 23.

Congress could revise these statutes to allow the suits to go forward, and in the discrimination case, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg called on Congress to do just that.

Since it was six months past the statute of limitations, the suit was thrown out.