Sentence examples for successfully sued over from inspiring English sources

The UK has been successfully sued over its illegally high air pollution and Labour will create new local powers, but the challenge has defeated previous governments.

Other athletes have successfully sued over the right to profit from their likenesses, including a group of retired N.F.L. players who sued their union for allowing Electronic Arts to use their identities in Madden NFL without compensating them.

In 1992 she successfully sued over a television documentary that claimed she had lied about animal testing; in 1994 Business Ethics magazine challenged her record on green standards and fair trade - and the share price fell.

Mr Mosley, who successfully sued over the story last year which wrongly suggested the party had Nazi overtones, said that the episode had a "terrible, terrible" impact on him and his family and that the exposure of the embarrassing details about his private life still affected him.

'That was not the case in the mid-1980s.' It was necessary to restore some balance to reporting: prior to his arrival a number of MPs had successfully sued over a programme called Maggie's Militant Tendency, in which footage of them was intercut with archive material of Nazis saluting.

He successfully sued over incorrect reports that he had an affair with her.

David L. Hudson Jr., a scholar at the First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University, agreed that "it would be pretty difficult" for a person like Mr. Zuckerberg, with a good likelihood of being found a public figure, to successfully sue over a movie he believes to be libelous.

The Daily Star newspaper he successfully sued 12 years ago over claims he slept with prostitute Monica Coghlan wants back the £500,000 damages and £700,000 costs he won - plus interest.

Oldsmobile owners in 1981 were so angered that their cars had been fitted with Chevrolet engines instead of Oldsmobile Rocketss," the subject of another hit song, that they successfully sued G.M. over the swap.

This background might explain an extraordinary court case when, between 1986 and 1989, the older brothers successfully sued Joe Jr over putting the Gallo name on a brand of cheese produced at his prosperous dairy.

Last year in Germany, Rolex successfully sued eBay over a breach of its intellectual property rights, using the European Enforcement Directive of 2004, which harmonized intellectual property rights across Europe.