Sentence examples for sued itself from inspiring English sources

For example, could Facebook have sued Yahoo for patent infringement before being sued itself and call it a defensive use?

"It does seem quite extraordinary that the BBC is apparently paying for its own staff to sue itself.

It seems, in effect, to be suing itself for decades of damage resulting from dependence on fossil fuel earnings.

Though Hollywood is sometimes presumed by Iranian officials to be an instrument of the US government, there's no reason, in this wacky parallel universe, why it shouldn't sue itself.

Two "sub-targets" of 27%, on the renewable share of the energy mix and on improvements to energy efficiency, were included in the deal but have no teeth (the renewables goal is binding only at "EU level", which leads one to wonder if the club will sue itself should it be missed).

Stranger still, in an effort to stop a building boom that other cities in the state can only hunger for, Hoboken has gone so far as to sue itself to stop a sustained burst of growth that has left it swollen and uncomfortable -- what one planning board member described as a "free ride for developers".

We'll find out why the mobile industry is suing itself, and what BT has that the other fibre-optic broadband providers want.

As for the second-most-hated bank in America, Bank of America, it is busy shrinking itself, and even suing itself from time to time.

But in the Napster case, the recording industry sued Napster itself.

It ruled out suing Lehman itself, because the firm was in bankruptcy.

NBC Universal is not suing YouTube itself, but it is yet another voice of dissent against the way the video-sharing website operates.