Sentence examples for was successfully sued for from inspiring English sources

George Harrison was successfully sued for plagiarising the Chiffons' He's So Fine for My Sweet Lord.

Canada was successfully sued for not granting a permit to a mining company on environmental grounds.

Think George Harrison, who was successfully sued for subconsciously plagiarising the Chiffons' He's So Fine when writing his song My Sweet Lord.

The climax came in 1825, when he was successfully sued for adultery with a woman whose husband was a city alderman and a Drury Lane administrator.

They should make clear that web-connected gadgets are covered by existing safety laws and existing product-liability regimes: last year Japan's Toyota was successfully sued for installing malfunctioning, but not web-connected, software.

The U.S. legislation came in response to widespread publicity about the case of Rachel Ehrenfeld, an American author who was successfully sued for libel by a Saudi businessman, Khalid bin Mahfouz, in a London court.

Tracy Williams was the first person in a British chat room to be successfully sued for libel.

And, as we now know, parishioners have been prevented from learning that their priests have been successfully sued for abuse.

Automakers have been losing rollover lawsuits for decades but have never been successfully sued for the damage that their products inflict on other vehicles and their occupants.

He added that a doctor could not be successfully sued for refusing to administer CPR if the procedure would have violated good medical practice.

They continue to tour, although in 2010, a stage-diving Angelo broke a concertgoer's skull and collarbone and the group were successfully sued for $1.4m.