Litigation

A lawsuit is a proceeding by a party or parties against another in the civil court of law. The archaic term "suit in law" is found in only a small number of laws still in effect today. The term "lawsuit" is used in reference to a civil action brought in a court of law in which a plaintiff, a party who claims to have incurred loss as a result of a defendant's actions, demands a legal or equitable remedy. The defendant is required to respond to the plaintiff's complaint. If the plaintiff is successful, judgment is in the plaintiff's favor, …

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NYU: New York University · 20 November 2024 English

The Al Shirmari verdict may help other plaintiffs chart a path to navigate the Supreme Court’s constraints on Alien Tort Statute cases. The post Abu Ghraib Torture Survivors’ Landmark Win …


GAIA: Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives · 20 November 2024 English

This would be important in order to complete the drafting and agreement on treaty text including all the core obligations needed to end plastic pollution across the life cycle of …

Investors in petrochemicals face additional risk from litigation due to the toxic impacts of plastic chemicals


Carbon Tracker Initiative · 19 November 2024 English

This report by the Carbon Tracker Initiative critically evaluates the emissions targets of 30 leading oil and gas companies, assessing their alignment with the Paris Agreement. It introduces methane-specific reduction …

reductions could expose companies to regulatory and litigation risk.20 NBS • NBS may fail to permanently sequester potentially expose companies to regulatory, litigation, and reputational risk. 18 Carbon Tracker


SWP: Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik · 15 November 2024 German

Inhaltsverzeichnis > Israel / Libanon / "Achse des Widerstands" - Aktuelle Konfrontation: Stellungnahmen und Lageberichte > Israel / Libanon / "Achse des Widerstands" - Aktuelle Konfrontation: Analysen und Kommentare > …

Constitutional Court on the Abolition of Public Interest Litigation, Decision of 14 January 2023 in the Constitutional


CEIP: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace · 13 November 2024 English

This compendium provides an independent look at how to get the most out of India’s current technology ecosystem, and the measures that may need to be adopted or re-considered in …

legal provisions could increase the volume of litigation and choke the already overburdened administrative


The South Centre · 13 November 2024

The Supreme Court found that in the absence in the Bill of mitigatory measures -as allowed by the TRIPS Agreement- and of a working definition of the term “microorganism”, there …

cases examined by the competition authority (sham litigation, overpricing and economic abuse, buy-and- raise implications while granting injunctions in patent litigation. Moreover, it asserts that the courts should provisions are likely to result in widespread litigation on these issues. It is desirable that a new provision Study Drawing from The Eli Lilly Case on ‘Sham Litigation’ in Brazil (SouthViews No. 240, 1 September 2022) for abusive use of the right to petition (sham litigation) with anti-competitive effects. It examines general


EPRS: European Parliamentary Research Service · 11 November 2024 English

Media freedom and pluralism are among the rights enshrined in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights (Article 11) and the European Convention on Human Rights (Article 10), together with freedom …

can afford to silence the defendant by means of litigation techniques and protracted proceedings. To To address this abusive form of litigation, in April 2022, the Commission put forward a proposal targeting


LDI: Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics · 11 November 2024 English

likely to significantly reshape the regulatory landscape in health care, potentially leading to more litigation, regulatory uncertainty, and challenges in implementing consistent national health policies. This

landscape in health care, potentially leading to more litigation, regulatory uncertainty, and challenges in implementing


UNEP: United Nations Environment Programme · 11 November 2024 English

The World Adaptation Science Programme Science-for-Adaptation Policy Brief on Knowledge Gaps and Policy Needs to Tackle Loss and Damage is the eighth issue in the series published by eight international …

Carlson, D. A. (2021). A just alternative to litigation: applying restorative justice to climate- related


DCI: Defence for Children · 11 November 2024 English

importance of legal representation for children, the role of regional or international, public interest litigation practices for the wide recognition of rights of children deprived of liberty, the role of National

of regional or international, public interest litigation practices for the wide recognition of rights


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