"Realizing that she had been caught red handed," the suit states, Ms. Howell admitted the fraud, and in exchange for not being sued agreed to return to Mr. White all of the artwork of his that she had purchased to sell in the gallery.
The treasure of the State of Connecticut, sued Forstmann Little to return the state's $96 million investment to that point and to cancel the commitment it made to take its total investment to $200 million.
The neighbor sued to have the animals returned to him; Allen pleaded his own case, and lost.
He is concerned that the Gurfeins do not have a certificate of occupancy for an expansion of the spa onto the second floor, which had previously been approved only for residential use, and he is suing to have the Gurfeins return the building to its approved uses.
Inuit who had been forcibly removed from the area surrounding the base in the 1950s sued for the right to return, airing their grievances at the European Court of Human Rights.
In the late 1990s, islanders from the Chagos Archipelago, including Diego Garcia, sued for the right to return home, and in 2000 a British court ruled that the 1971 ordinance banning them from the islands was unlawful.
The question of how far companies can go in taking away their customers' right to sue returned to the Supreme Court this week.
Mr. Kortlander, who is suing to have the seized pieces returned, described the investigation as "federal law run amok".
In other words, suing someone to get them to return your calls is not exactly a sign of brilliance.
