(a) suing or being sued and

Any woman or man can sue or be sued.

The buyer sued the Austrian middleman to recover the advance payment.

The war ended in 1721 when an exhausted Sweden sued for peace with Russia.

TV show Family Guy has been sued for being anti semitic, writes Palestinian blogger Haitham Sabbah here.

The new law permits an author or publisher who is sued to invoke a public interest defense.

There is a long standing presumption of sovereign immunity states can be sued only under limited circumstances.

Sued by his own newspaper, Ghanem saw all the doors of Algerian media closing in his face.

Overture Services, Inc. sued Google for patent infringement in April 2002 in relation to the AdWords service.

They write lengthy disclosure statements that cover every possible use of data so that they cannot be sued.

This should be the only public interest defense available to a media outlet that is sued for invasion of privacy.

The buyer had to make a cover purchase at a higher price and sued to recover the extra price paid.

There's a shortage of radiologists qualified to read mammograms, and that's because mammograms are one of the most complex of all radiology studies to interpret, and because radiologists are sued more often over missed breast cancer than any other cause.

Last January, my company, Fark.com, was sued along with Yahoo, MSN, Reddit, AOL, TechCrunch and others by a company called Gooseberry Natural Resources.

So pervasive is the sexual violence aimed at American women soldiers that a group of veterans sued the Pentagon, hoping to spur change.

As the six partners made the initial sale payment but not the final payment, the four partners successfully sued them for final payment.

When Nelson sued, the court issued a heinous ruling upheld by the Iowa Supreme Court affirming his right to dismiss her for this reason.

In May 1993, the company sued the State of Argentina and the Province of Neuquén in the Superior Court of the Province of Neuquén.

American supporters of such agreements point out that the US has been sued only a few times so far, and has not lost a case. Corporations, however, are just learning how to use these agreements to their advantage.

Some have gone to jail to protect the identities of anonymous sources and whistleblowers, or have sued governments that deny them access to crucial documents.

After their listing, Sayadi and Vinck sued in Belgium, asking the Government to seek their de list by the United Nations and the European Union.

Publishers and authors disagreed, and some sued Google for breach of copyright, eventually agreeing to settle their claim in exchange for a share of Google s revenue.

It was reiterated that in the case of major incidents involving a high number of cargo claims, the carrier could be potentially sued in numerous jurisdictions.

Some might counter that the holdout hedge funds that sued Argentina deserve no sympathy, either. Many are called vulture funds because they bought the debt at a steep discount from the original creditors, hoping to profit subsequently through court decisions.

Indeed, he has sued the very prosecutor in whose hands his current extradition now rests an act that may be jeopardizing his right to a fair hearing.

5.1 With regard to the admissibility of the communication, the author acknowledges that he sued the first lawyer who defended him in the criminal proceedings against him.

One factor in such decisions is fear on the part of doctors or hospitals that they will be sued by the family for letting their loved one die.

As recently as March this year, an Employment Tribunal found in favour of one intern who had sued her employer for lack of remuneration, as reported by Spiegel Online.

Taipei City Police Department said that the Ministry of Education sued , so they need to clarify whether these three reporters forcibly entered the building like other high school students.

In 1991, Finland sued Denmark at the International Court of Justice, on the grounds that Finnish built mobile offshore drilling units would be unable to pass beneath the bridge.

In 2002, 60,265 cases on marriage and family were handled, of which 44 were sued merely by women and 18 of which were requested by both wife and husband.

The buyer was not satisfied with the performance of the equipment, despite numerous technical adjustments made by the vendor, and sued for breach of contract, including late delivery, and breach of warranties.

However when they sued Borland over its Quattro Pro spreadsheet in Lotus v. Borland, the courts ruled that it was not a copyright violation to merely have a compatible command menu or language.

This should be the only public interest defense available to a media outlet that is sued for invasion of privacy. The media might become a bit drearier, but public life would be far healthier.

In 2002, Be Inc. sued Microsoft claiming that Hitachi had been dissuaded from selling PCs loaded with BeOS, and that Compaq had been pressured not to market an Internet appliance in partnership with Be.

And we read every once in while about these crazy lawsuits, like the guy in the District of Columbia who sued his dry cleaners for 54 million dollars because they lost his pair of pants.

It was Ghanem's former employer, La Voix de l'Oranie (Voice of Oran), a daily newspaper known for its pro regime editorial line, who sued him for the cartoon which was never published in the media.

Max Mosley admitted participating in this (not illegal) happening, but sued the News of the World for breach of privacy the newspaper argued that it was in the public interest that Mosley s sexual activities be disclosed.

Because if a member of a constituted body was sued personally in a third State the existence of the agreement covering the acts where they took place would be evidence that a personal suit is inappropriate.

One of the major problems with patent law is that, in the case that when you are sued by a patent troll, the burden of proof that you did not infringe on the patent is actually on the defendant, which means you have to prove that you do not infringe on the patent they're suing you on.

To defend citizens' right to access public information, the Taiwan Association for Human Rights sued the ministry for their black boxed procedures, and the Taipei High Court ruled that it should put the committee minutes and voting details under public examination.

In 1770, despite his victory over the Chinese armies, King Hsinbyushin sued for peace with China and concluded a treaty in order to maintain bilateral trade with the Middle Kingdom which was very important for the dynasty at that time.

2.6 On 14 December 1995, the author sued the Government of Quebec for what he alleged was the malicious conduct of the deputy Crown prosecutor handling the case for failing to submit the written statement of 16 August 1991 during the trial.

He sued, and his case went all the way to the Supreme Court, believe it or not, the case over the golf cart, because the law says that the disabled must be accommodated, provided the accommodation does not change the essential nature of the activity.

And that to me, spoke volumes, because it's the film started about a true life story about a woman who was harassed, sued her employer, led to a landmark case that led to the Equal Opportunity Act, and the Violence Against Women Act and others.