The Lawsuit is a comic opera in one act by composer Svetlana Nesterova . The opera uses a Russian language Russian libretto by Vera Kupriyanova and the composer which is based upon the story of the same name by Nikolai Gogol . The opera was commissioned by the Mariinsky Theatre along with two other new operas, Anastasia Bespalova s Shponka and His Aunt and Vyacheslav Kruglik s The Carriage opera The Carriage , all based on stories by Gogol. The three operas premiered together on 21 June 2009 during the Mariinsky Theatre s summer festival. ref name opera cite news url http www.metoperafamily.org operanews review review.aspx?id 2932&issueID 335 title ST. PETERSBURG The Lawsuit, Shponka and His Aunt, The Carriage 4 1 09 , May Night 4 2 09 , The Fair at Sorochintsy 4 4 09 , Kirov Opera work Opera News author George Loomis date July 2009, vol 74, no. 1 accessdate July 6, 2009 ref Roles Pavel Petrovich Burdyukov Khristophor Petrovich Burdyukov Alexander Ivanovich Proletov References reflist DEFAULTSORT Lawsuit, The Category Operas Category Russian language operas Category 2009 operas opera stub ... more details
April 2010 Civil procedure United States A lawsuit or less commonly suit in law is a civil action ..., lawsuit may also refer to a criminal action, criminal proceeding, or criminal claim. A lawsuit may ... or non profit organization s. A lawsuit may also enable the state polity state to be treated as if it were ... provide the state with a civil cause of action to enforce certain laws. The conduct of a lawsuit is called ... of a lawsuit in the common law adversarial system of dispute resolution. Procedural rules are additionally ... that define the rights of the parties to a lawsuit see especially due process , though the rules will generally ... of the lawsuit what may be filed and when, to obtain what result. Failure to comply with the procedural ... trial, or even dismissal of the lawsuit. Though the majority of lawsuits are settled and never reach trial, ref The Lawsuit Survival Guide by Joseph L. Matthews cite book url http books.google.com ... complicated as more parties become involved see joinder . Within a single lawsuit, there can be any ... of a lawsuit The following is a generalized description of how a lawsuit may proceed in a common law jurisdiction Pleading Main Pleading A lawsuit begins when a complaint is filed with the court ... his lawsuit. The clerk of a court signs or stamps the court seal upon a summons , which is then Service .... In a handful of jurisdictions notably, the U.S. state of New York a lawsuit begins when ... se clerk pro se clerk to assist people without lawyers. Pretrial discovery The early stages of the lawsuit .... Discovery is meant to eliminate surprises and clarify what the lawsuit is about, and to make the parties ... motions that either party can file throughout the lawsuit to terminate it prematurely before submission ... the lawsuit back to the lower trial court to address an unresolved issue, or possibly for a whole ... into the record. When the lawsuit has finally been resolved, or the allotted time to file an appeal ... already ruled upon from a previous lawsuit will be estopped from doing so. ref cite web url http ... more details
Nuisance lawsuit may refer to a suit of the tort of nuisance , i.e. the plaintiff claims the defendant is causing a nuisance to the plaintiff a frivolous lawsuit , i.e. by bringing the suit, the plaintiff is causing a nuisance to the defendant Disambig ... more details
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Unref date March 2008 A collusive lawsuit sometimes referred to as a collusive action is a lawsuit in which the parties to the suit have no actual quarrel with one another, but one sues the other to achieve some result desired by both. Examples Constitutional law For example, if two people think a law is Constitutionality unconstitutional , one might sue another in order to put the lawsuit before a court which can rule on its constitutionality. Because courts generally reserve jurisdiction for situations in which there is an actual Case or Controversy Clause case or controversy i.e., a real dispute between the parties where such a suit is suspected, the court may refuse to exercise jurisdiction . Tort fraud Another form of collusive lawsuit involves fraud , where two persons agree to fake an accident , so that the victim can sue the other person in order to collect from the other person s insurance . This is a crime , and insurance companies investigate claims to determine that no collusion is involved. Because of the fear of collusive suits, many jurisdictions have, at various times, prohibited spouses from suing one another or prohibited children from suing their parents. Also, many jurisdictions have had guest statute s which make it difficult for a passenger in a non commercial vehicle to sue the driver if the passenger is injured due to the driver s negligence . At fault divorce Another example is in divorce , in those jurisdiction s where fault legal fault remains as a condition before commencement of an action for breach of the marriage contract. See also Connivance Tort reform Tortfeasor DEFAULTSORT Collusive Lawsuit Category Activism by method Category Civil procedure Category Lawsuits law term stub ... more details
sections date February 2011 The Ferko lawsuit is a common nickname for an United States American lawsuit that was challenged between plaintiff Francis Ferko, a resident of Plano, Texas and a shareholder of Speedway Motorsports, Inc. s Texas Motor Speedway , and defendants NASCAR and International Speedway Corporation ISC , which are both owned by the France family . Ferko contended that the defendants violated antitrust laws that prevented Texas Motor Speedway from obtaining two NASCAR NEXTEL Cup races per racing season, as many other tracks had. ref name Fan cite web url http www.dfw.com mld dfw 13059399.htm title Fan wishes he hadn t filed suit work Dallas Fort Worth Star Telegram accessdate 2006 12 28 archiveurl http web.archive.org web 20060708031401 http www.thatsracin.com mld thatsracin 13059399.htm archivedate 2006 07 08 last Wilson first Jeff ref As the case was preparing to go to trial in 2004, the parties settled the lawsuit as part of a larger restructuring of NASCAR. ref name Fan In the settlement, ISC sold the North Carolina Speedway in Rockingham, North Carolina Rockingham now known as Rockingham Speedway to Speedway Motorsports, and Speedway then moved Rockingham s one NEXTEL Cup race which had been held in February to Texas. However, as part of NASCAR s date realignment, the February race was actually moved to Auto Club Speedway , and the date given to Texas was the November ... title Ferko Lawsuit Settled As Texas And Phoenix Gain Cup Races publisher Street and Smith s SportsBusiness ..., Ferko had his life fall apart as a direct result of the lawsuit. He lost his job in food safety ... 500, Ferko said that k nowing what I know now, I definitely would not have pursued the lawsuit .... I ..., unlike the promise of a second race at the heart of the Ferko lawsuit, the France family had expressly ... Review Journal date March 12, 2006 accessdate 2009 06 01 ref The lawsuit was dismissed on January ... newsline news.asp?sid 667 title Kentucky Speedway to Appeal Antitrust Lawsuit Decision ... more details
Unreferenced date June 2007 A direct action lawsuit is brought directly against an insurance company for a wrong done by the insured. In a lawsuit that is not direct action, a plaintiff brings the claim against the insured, who actually wronged the plaintiff. Once Legal judgment judgment has been rendered against the defendant , there are a number of ways that the insurance company assuming the defendant is insured might later be made to pay the victorious plaintiff. If the plaintiff wants to avoid the extra time and process required to eventually be paid by the insurance company, the action can be brought directly against the insurance company. The plaintiff must still prove all of the same facts that would be the plaintiff s burden, had the action been brought against the insured. In addition, the plaintiff must prove that the insured was covered by the insurance company, and that the insurance policy covered the kind of wrong for which the plaintiff is seeking remedy. The insured is then treated as a third party to the litigation, and the insurance company itself is the defendant. This name can also be given to any lawsuit that is brought as a kind of direct action activism. One example can be a customer suing a company to repeal an action deemed an infringement on the rights of the customer as a citizen and thus a subject to federal or state law. Allegedly, the largest direct action lawsuit was the subject matter of the motion picture Erin Brockovich film Erin Brockovich . Category Lawsuits Category Tort law Category Insurance law term stub ... more details
orphan date October 2009 A watching brief is a method normally used in criminal Legal case cases by lawyer s to represent clients not directly a party to the suit and to function as an observer. The method is normally used to help protect the rights and interests of victims of a crime, or also to protect a defendant from possible malicious prosecution. This method is used in countries such as Australia and Malaysia . DEFAULTSORT Watching Brief Lawsuit Category Dispute resolution Category Criminal law law stub ... more details
Multiple issues wikify January 2011 orphan January 2011 New unreviewed article source ArticleWizard date November 2010 The Minneapolis Property tax Lawsuit , also known as Idowu Odunlade et. Al v City of Minneapolis, is a class action lawsuit filed in Hennepin County District Court which alleges that an unfair practice of assessment has led to homeowner s in certain neighborhoods in the city being tax ed at a higher rate of their home s actual value than those in other areas. The suit was drafted and filed by two student lawyer attorney s at the University of Minnesota Law School Civil Practice Clinic, http www.linkedin.com pub michael gavigan 17 933 386 Michael Gavigan and http www.linkedin.com pub john braun 6 104 274 John Braun , working under the supervision of licensed attorney and law professor http www.linkedin.com pub laura thomas 9 72a 776 Laura Thomas from the University and practicing attorneys from the private law firm http www.wilsonlg.com Wilson Law Group . Attorneys for the plaintiff s analyzed the open market selling prices of over 7700 sales of single family homes that sold between October 2006 and October 2008. They then compared those sale amounts to the amount assigned to the same properties for the following year s tax assessment . In the Calhoun Isles, Minneapolis Calhoun Isles and Southwest, Minneapolis Southwest areas of the city, the average ratio was very nearly one to one, but in the Camden, Minneapolis Camden , Near North, Minneapolis Near North , and Phillips, Minneapolis Phillips communities, the average ratios were nearly triple. Media coverage of the suit http www.startribune.com local 109090004.html?elr KArksUUUycaEacyU Minneapolis Star Tribune http www.myfoxtwincities.com dpp news minnesota lawsuit mpls property tax increases are discrimination nov 19 2010 Fox News TV 29 http www.kare11.com news news article.aspx?storyid 883255 KARE 11 TV http minnesota.publicradio.org display web 2010 11 19 lawsuit minneapolis homevalues Minnesota ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 Orphan date December 2009 Michigan Lawsuit Abuse Watch ref http www.mlaw.org ref is a 501 c non profit 501 c 4 organization based in Novi, Michigan . It was created in 1997 with the goal to increase public awareness of what it views as the burden of excessive litigation is placing on families, job providers and communities in the United States and to promote policies to restore common sense to the civil justice system. M LAW holds itself out as a grassroots legal reform organization of consumers, businesses, professionals, community leaders, and other supporters who want to eliminate the negative effects many personal injury lawyer s have had on America. Wacky Warning Label Contest The organization sponsors several projects each year designed to focus public attention on what it views to be the side effects associated with life in what it calls the most lawsuit happy society on earth. Its popular Wacky Warning Label Contest ref Cite web url http www.wackywarninglabelstv.com title Wacky Warning Labels retrieved 29 January 2011 ref receives worldwide media attention every January when its list of the wackiest warning labels is released. The contest was created to reveal how lawsuits have created the need for obvious warning labels on all sorts of consumer products. Each year, the grand prize winner receives a check for 500 and a copy of the bestselling book, The Death of Common Sense , by Philip K. Howard ref Cite book first Philip K. last Howard title The Death of Common Sense How Law is Suffocating America isbn 978 0446672283 publisher Grand Central Publishing year 1996 ref . M LAW s president, Robert Dorigo Jones , is the author of Remove Child Before Folding The 101 Stupidest, Silliest and Wackiest Warning Labels Ever ref Cite book last Jones first Robert Dorigo title Remove Child Before Folding The 101 Stupidest, Silliest, and Wackiest Warning Labels Ever isbn 978 0446696562 year 2007 publisher Grand Central Publishing ref . Funding ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 The Shell Canada Lawsuit was a class action suit filed against Shell Canada Shell Canada Limited on July 18, 2003, on behalf of customers who purchased Bronze Octane rating regular grade gasoline products, to which Shell Canada added an Gasoline additive additive , between March 1, 2001 and April 15, 2002. This additive allegedly caused damage to the fuel supply system of many cars, most commonly of Acura , Chrysler , Dodge , Ford , General Motors , Hyundai Motor Company Hyundai and Volvo brands. While Shell Canada estimated that between 100,000 and 200,000 customers bought Bronze products during that period, it is unknown how many total vehicles were affected. A settlement was reached on January 7, 2004, and was approved by the Superior Court of Quebec in June 2004 . Under the settlement, Shell compensated people who owned or leased vehicles that were filled with at least Canadian dollar C 100 worth of Shell branded gasoline between March 1, 2001 and April 15, 2002 and that experienced fuel pump or fuel sensor problems before July 31, 2002. Claims were able to be made under the class action until November 5, 2004. There are three classes of claims and compensation People who owned or lease d 1996 &ndash 2002 Chrysler vehicles except Jeep s were fully reimbursed for fuel pump and fuel sensor repairs and for eligible out of pocket expenses . People who owned or leased other 1996&ndash 2002 vehicles and who can establish that the fuel pump or fuel sending unit had a particular residue on it were reimbursed for eligible repairs and out of pocket costs to a maximum of C 175. People who owned or leased pre 1996 vehicles and who can establish that the fuel pump or fuel sending unit had a particular residue on it were reimbursed for eligible repairs and out of pocket expenses to a maximum of C 100. References cite web url http www.apa.ca template.asp?SectionID 3&ArticleID 13 title Class Action Suit Authorized Against Shell Oil July 18, 2003 accessdate ... more details
POV date November 2008 Cleanup date April 2009 Refimprove date April 2009 The Vatican Radio lawsuit was started by the Regional Health Department for Throwing of dangerous things on the Italian ground. Every time it was sued the radio showed the Lateran Treaty , bilateral agreements signed by the Holy See and Benito Mussolini during Fascism . The area around the radio station at the time it was built was not heavily populated . The Santa Maria di Galeria transmitter site is the subject of a dispute between the station and some local residents who claim the non ionising radiation from the site has Microwave radiation Health effects affected their health . ref http findarticles.com p articles mi m1141 is 21 37 ai 72960576 Vatican Radio officials charged in case concerning the electromagnetic force of radio transmitters Brief Article from BNet ref However these claims are not accepted by the station. Vatican Radio covers a large area of the Rome municipality, as set by the extraterritorial right in Italian law. To cover such a large area, the radio station has around 60 Radio masts and towers pylons higher than 100 meters 328 ft . Since this part of Rome is not under Italian jurisdiction, these transmitters are not subject to the Italian laws that limit the radiation that a radio station can emit. In the vicinity of these pylons, the radiation emitted can be more than the double the amount allowed by Italian law, as verified officially by the Italian Civil Defense and the Department for the Environment of the region of Lazio . This situation causes much disturbance to the lives of the people living in this area the most common complaints are that one can hear the transmissions breaking through on telephones, and many other electronic devices due in many cases to the devices having poor Electromagnetic compatibility electromagnetic immunity to the strong signals . The Region of Lazio has also found that the people in the area around the emitters are much more likely to have ... more details
cleanup date August 2010 The SAS Institute, creators of SAS System filed a http www.bailii.org ew cases EWHC Ch 2010 1829.html lawsuit against World Programming Limited, creators of World Programming System World Programming System or WPS . The dispute was whether World Programming had infringed copyrights on SAS Institute Products, and Manuals and whether World Programming used SAS Learning Edition to reverse engineer SAS system in violation with its term of usage. The high court of England and Wales made the following observations SAS can be considered a http www.bailii.org ew cases EWHC Ch 2010 1829.html para56 general programming language , though it serves largely as a database SAS programming language programming language and a language with a wide variety of specialized analytic and graphic procedures http www.bailii.org ew cases EWHC Ch 2010 1829.html para100 First , it confirms what WPL has always admitted, namely that it has used the SAS Manuals to emulate functionality of the SAS System in WPS. Secondly, it shows that to some extent WPL has reproduced aspects of the SAS Manuals going beyond that which was strictly necessary in order for WPS to emulate the functions of the SAS System. What it does not show is reproduction of the SAS source code by WPS going beyond the reproduction of its functionality. http www.bailii.org ew cases EWHC Ch 2010 1829.html para148 WPL s manual writers did not copy directly from the SAS Manuals in the sense of having one of the SAS Manuals open in front of them when writing the WPS Manual and intentionally either transcribing or paraphrasing the wording. A considerable degree of similarity in both content and language between the SAS Manual entries and the WPS Manual entries is to be expected given that they are describing identical functionality. The degree of resemblance in the language goes beyond that which is attributable to describing identical functionality. The full judgement can be accessed here at http www.bailii.org ... more details
Censorship A strategic lawsuit against public participation SLAPP is a lawsuit that is intended to censor, intimidate and silence critics by burdening them with the cost of a legal defense until they abandon their criticism or opposition. ref http www.onthemedia.org transcripts 2010 04 02 07 ref The typical SLAPP plaintiff does not normally expect to win the lawsuit. The plaintiff s goals are accomplished if the defendant succumbs to fear, intimidation, mounting legal costs or simple exhaustion and abandons the criticism. A SLAPP may also intimidate others from participating in the debate. A SLAPP is often preceded by a legal threat . The difficulty, of course, is that plaintiffs do not present themselves to the Court admitting that their intent is to censor, intimidate or silence their critics. Hence, the difficulty in drafting SLAPP legislation, and in applying it, is to craft an approach which affords an early termination to invalid abusive suits, without denying a legitimate day in court to valid good faith claims. History The acronym was coined in the 1980s by University of Denver professors Penelope Canan and George W. Pring. The term was originally defined as a lawsuit involving communications made to influence a governmental action or outcome, which resulted in a civil complaint or counterclaim filed against nongovernment individuals or organizations on a substantive issue of some public interest or social significance. ref George W. Pring and Penelope Canan, SLAPPs Getting ... for a special motion that a defendant can file at the outset of a lawsuit to strike a complaint when ... must first show that the lawsuit is based on constitutionally protected activity. Then, the burden ... Streisand s Lawsuit to Silence Coastal Website Dismissed ref See Streisand effect Nationally ...&url article id 2823&url subchannel id &change well id 2 Atlanta Humane Society settles lawsuit ref Karen ... persons, claiming CAD 5,000.000.00 in damages. The lawsuit, filed on May 5, 2010 on behalf of Youthdale ... more details
Bank Julius Baer vs. Wikileaks lawsuit was filed by Julius Baer Group Bank Julius Baer against the website WikiLeaks . In early February 2008, attorneys for the bank won an injunction that forced Dynadot , the domain registrar of wikileaks.org, to disassociate the site s domain name records with its servers, preventing use of the domain name to reach the site. The bank s actions roused media and cyber liberties groups to defend WikiLeaks rights under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution First Amendment and brought renewed scrutiny to the documents the bank hoped to shield. The judge lifted the injunction and the bank dropped the case on 5 March 2008. ref name Claburn Background In 2002, the bank learned that records pertaining to the arrangement of anonymizing trusts in the Cayman Islands for clients from 1997 to 2002 had been leaked. They interviewed the local employees with a polygraph as per company policy. The bank was unsatisfied with the answers of Cayman unit COO Rudolf Elmer , and terminated his employment. In June 2005, the leak was reported by the Swiss financial weekly Cash and the Wall Street Journal , though details of individual accounts were not reported on. ref cite news title Julius Baer Says Unit s Client Data Were Stolen url http online.wsj.com article SB111887029173960737.html first Edward last Taylor date 16 June 2005 work Wall Street Journal ref In December 2007, Elmer released documents related to WikiLeaks regarding surveillance of him and his family. The next month, some of the leaked account data began appearing on Wikileaks. Contributors to WikiLeaks allege that these provide evidence of asset hiding , money laundering and tax evasion ... km from Los Angeles. Negative publicity for bank The Julius Baer lawsuit drew a great deal more ... showArticle.jhtml?articleID 206902154 title Swiss Bank Abandons Lawsuit Against Wikileaks The wiki had ... DEFAULTSORT Bank Julius Baer Vs. Wikileaks Lawsuit Category Internet censorship Category WikiLeaks ... more details
The World Jewish Congress lawsuit against Swiss banks was launched to retrieve deposits made by victims of Nazi persecution during and prior to World War II. Negotiations Starting in 1995, the World Jewish Congress WJC began negotiations on behalf of various Jewish organizations with Swiss banks and the Swiss government over dormant Jewish World War II bank accounts. Led by Edgar Bronfman, Sr. Edgar Bronfman , the heir to the Seagram Seagram s fortune, the WJC entered a class action in Brooklyn, NY combining several established suits in New York , California , and the District of Columbia. The original suits arose from grievances of Holocaust survivors and their heirs against Swiss banks. They alleged improper difficulties in accessing these accounts because of requirements such as death certificates typically non existent for Holocaust victims , along with deliberate efforts on the part of some Swiss banks to retain the balances indefinitely. The causes for claims eventually expanded to include the value of art works purported to have been stolen, damages to persons denied admission to Switzerland on the strength of refugee applications, and the value or cost of labor purported to have been performed by persons being maintained at Swiss government expense in displaced person camps during the Holocaust, along with interest on such claims from the time of loss. Plaintiffs included all Holocaust victims, not just Jews. Hearings The WJC was able to marshal the unprecedented support of U.S. government officials including senator Alfonse M. D Amato Alfonse D Amato R NY, who held hearings of the United States Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Senate Banking Committee in which he claimed to possess recently declassified documents that shed new light on the Swiss role in the war. He also claimed that hundreds of millions of dollars of war era Jewish assets ... offers from the banks and demanded payment of 1.8 billion to settle the lawsuit. During the negotiations ... more details
Summary This is the remains of Homage, destroyed by a backhoe and laid to rest pending outcome of lawsuit. This picture is taken by myself. Licensing PD self date March 2008 ... more details
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In a class action lawsuit , a lead plaintiff also called class representative , named plaintiff , or representative plaintiff is the named party. The court officially appoints this individual when it certifies the lawsuit as a class action. The lead plaintiff must be able to represent the interests of all the members of the class. He or she is responsible to hire the attorney, file the lawsuit, consult on the case, and agree to any settlement. References http law.freeadvice.com litigation class actions class action lead plantiff.htm What s In It For the Lead Class Action Plaintiff? law.freeadvice.com Category Civil law law stub ... more details
In a civil lawsuit, a nominal party is one named as a party law party on the record of an action, but having no interest in the action. References PD old text title The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia year 1906 references Category Legal terms ... more details
Fair use rationale This is the cover of Barbie Girl by Aqua band Aqua . It is of web resolution, and no free image could be found conveying the same information. It is illustrating the infobox of Barbie Girl and also Barbie , due to the five year lawsuit by Mattel described in the article. Non free album cover ... more details
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Orphan date February 2009 lowercase xICE Desktop xICE Desktop is an encryption program created for Windows based computers capable of running the .NET Framework 1.1. It implements the xICE encryption algorithm. Lawsuit From the time of its launch xICE Desktop has been the target of piracy due to faulty DRM provided by Softwrap Limited. This flaw was the subject of a http dockets.justia.com docket court wawdce case no 2 2007cv00572 case id 143165 recent lawsuit filed by the program s author on April 29, 2007. The lawsuit claimed 1.2M in damages due to a fault in Softwrap s DRM software acknowledged by Softwrap s VP of Business Development. The lawsuit was dismissed on August 17, 2007 by Judge Marsha J. Pechman, who upheld the arbitration clause in the contract between the developer and Softwrap, which stated that claims arising out of the use of Softwrap s DRM were to be arbitrated in London under the http www.wipo.int amc en arbitration expedited rules WIPO Expedited Arbitration Rules . A motion to reconsider was filed on August 26, 2007. A declaration attached to the motion asserts that the cost to arbitrate in London would greatly exceed the developer s total yearly income, and that to do so would be financially impossible. Category Computer security software ... more details
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