The suit, filed yesterday in Philadelphia, involves the film "Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal," which accuses Mr. Kerry, the Democratic nominee for president, and the antiwar group he joined of making up the accounts of wartime atrocities that Mr. Kerry later talked about in his 1971 Senate testimony.
Having corrected its statements to parliament, the government is now under pressure to acknowledge that it has also misled the high court in relation to a case being brought against it by the pressure group Campaign Against Arms Trade, which accuses it of failing to ensure that arms exports to Saudi Arabia are not in breach of international humanitarian law.
She said the sisters had been "stunned by the severity" of the Vatican's pronouncement, which accused them of transgressions that included promoting radical feminism and contradicting the bishops.
The Daily Mail published an apology and gave an undisclosed sum in damages on 16 January 2004, after an article on 11 June 2003, which accused Mardas of dealings that would later resurface in his claim against the New York Times in 2008.
Their partners in these deals included H. J. Meyers and Shamrock Partners, aggressive penny-stock dealers that were both subsequently disciplined by the Securities and Exchange Commission, which accused them of market manipulations that cost investors millions of dollars.
Mr. Scrushy and other executives made more than $163 million from sales of stock in 1998, according to that lawsuit, which accused executives and company directors of illegal insider trading.
Perhaps it was not entirely coincidental that his words echoed a notice posted by the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television, the country's media regulator, which accused Bytedance of making apps that offended common sensibility — the news stories on Jinri Toutiao were "opposed to morality" and the jokes on Neihan Duanzi were "off-color".
In 2009, the company agreed to pay six million dollars to settle a suit, brought by the Texas attorney general, which accused it of claiming that its products "cured, treated, or mitigated" a list of ailments that included cancer, autism, asthma, toxic-shock syndrome, and attention-deficit disorder.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a warrant for Kony's arrest, made public in October 2005, which accused him of human rights violations that included some 10,000 murders and the abduction and enslavement of more than 24,000 children.
By 2011, the MTV reality star was sued by the company that produced DILLIGAF, which accused him of breaching his contract by not promoting the line.
That echoed claims from the energy regulator, which accused the bank of stonewalling its investigation.
