(a) suing or being sued and

Three of the original eight entities were suing each other.

That was common practice in the industry, and those who held patents on airplanes were defending them fiercely and suing competitors left and right.

A New York nanny is suing a couple for discriminatory firing after receiving a misdirected text from the mother complaining that she was another black person.

In France, a bus company is suing people for forming a carpool, right, because the fact that they have coordinated themselves to create cooperative value is depriving them of revenue.

Philip Morris is suing Uruguay and Australia for requiring warning labels on cigarettes. Admittedly, both countries went a little further than the US, mandating the inclusion of graphic images showing the consequences of cigarette smoking.

Now, Maurice is suing the couple for compensation over the firing, and is seeking compensation to the tune of 350 a day for the six month, live in gig she had initially been hired to do, albeit without a contract.

Instead of suing foreign retailers like Wal Mart, India should be finding ways to emulate and benefit from their hyper efficient methods. Infrastructure is slowly improving, but roads, ports, water access, and the electricity grid are still horrific across large parts of the country.

But more and more Japanese women are fighting back against unwelcome male attention, not by denying tradition or culture, but by going to a lawyer and suing. Their problem is not with sex, or the art of seduction, but with the abuse of power.

The Enola case demonstrates that being right is not enough small farmers, indigenous people, and the poor can t out last a decade of lawsuits and monopoly. Undoubtedly, international institutions and countries in the global South have far more urgent goals than to spend resources suing greedy companies.

But it would be a mistake to underestimate her seriousness. I call her Martha Stewart meets Che Guevara, because, when not renovating the elegant public spaces of her hotel, she is suing Israeli generals for war crimes that she claims were committed against civilians in Gaza.

Previously, corporations and individuals all over the world who claimed that they had been defamed even if those suing or those who allegedly defamed them had little or no connection to the United Kingdom would bring lawsuits for libel in the British courts. The practice was widely known as libel tourism.

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.

Lee established a high minded committee to establish that nepotism was not the reason, and then set about suing anyone who dared to suggest otherwise. Yet this abhorrence of nepotism was illogical and Lee was generally nothing if not logical, even ruthlessly so because in this case a perfectly good justification for it followed smoothly from his own analysis of Singapore.