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单词 lawsuit
释义
lawsuit
(lɔːsuːt )
Word forms: lawsuits
countable noun
A lawsuit is a case in a court of law which concerns a dispute between two people or organizations. [formal]
The dispute culminated last week in a lawsuit against the government. [+ against]
Synonyms: case, cause, action, trial  
Collocations:
lawsuit seeks
The lawsuit seeks civil penalties of up to $20,000 per violation.
Houston Chronicle
The passengers' lawsuit seeks compensation for the airline's involvement in price fixing.
Times, Sunday Times
The lawsuit seeks class-action status.
Houston Chronicle
The lawsuit seeks unspecified compensatory and punitive damages.
Houston Chronicle
Each lawsuit seeks millions of dollars.
Times, Sunday Times
libel lawsuit
The couple issued him with a 50,000 libel lawsuit.
Times, Sunday Times
Known for gossip about the misdeeds of the powerful and famous, and for the number of libel lawsuits brought against it.
Times, Sunday Times
Therefore, claims made in the original letter, or in any similar petition, were and are subject to libel lawsuits to be judged on their merits.
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The names of the characters in the stories were altered to avoid potential libel lawsuits when the stories were published in book form in 1912.
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Despite the use of this revised phrase, successful libel lawsuits brought against banks by individuals remained for similar errors.
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malpractice lawsuit
In the past, it was a common fear that disclosure to the patient would incite a malpractice lawsuit.
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Later onn, he built his private law practice focusing on cases that involved mesothelioma, battling against tobacco companies, and trying malpractice lawsuits.
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There have been few, if any, medical malpractice lawsuits filed on the basis of conversion therapy.
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Some have argued that malpractice lawsuits are a major driver of medical costs.
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Submitted to the voters in 2005 and rejected. 336, regarding medical malpractice lawsuits and insurance and healthcare provider licensing.
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numerous lawsuits
Over its 36-year history, there have been numerous lawsuits and government investigations.
Times, Sunday Times
Numerous lawsuits were threatened by the green lobby.
Times, Sunday Times
The company has been involved in numerous lawsuits over poaching teams of brokers.
Times, Sunday Times
This created an international controversy and numerous lawsuits.
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The failures of states to adequately implement the actremoving barriers to enrollment and developing transportation systemshas been the subject of numerous lawsuits.
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patent lawsuit
The shares had crashed after a courtroom reverse but gained 4½p to 300p after the company said it had filed new patent lawsuits against its rivals.
Times, Sunday Times
Proponents of the bill suggested that technology companies are subject to an unprecedented wave of patent lawsuits, stifling innovation and creating an overburdened and lethargic patent system.
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Other patent lawsuits were not always successful.
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This bill, if passed into law, will shift costs and fees to plaintiffs in computer-related patent lawsuits that are not reasonably likely of succeeding when filed.
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related lawsuit
This month it was reported to have paid $100 million to settle a related lawsuit.
Times, Sunday Times
They are concerned that its exposure to toxic mortgages and related lawsuits may require it to raise perhaps $50 billion from new ordinary shares.
Times, Sunday Times
Related lawsuits continued for years afterward.
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Such litigation has caused insurance premiums for contractors to increase significantly and has made it difficult for contractors involved in moisture related lawsuits to obtain insurance at all.
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separate lawsuit
A separate lawsuit backed by 12,000 investors could be launched next week.
The Sun
However, a separate lawsuit by one other citizen remained pending.
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The wife of this federal employee had won $3.2 million in a separate lawsuit from those whom she claimed had caused her husband's injuries.
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He has filed not one, not two but three separate lawsuits, according to his former employer's most recent annual report.
Times, Sunday Times
Additionally, those seeking to discharge their student loan debt must initiate an adversary proceeding, a separate lawsuit within the bankruptcy case where they illustrate the required undue hardship.
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settle a lawsuit
He also paid more than $15 million to settle a lawsuit brought by shareholders.
Times, Sunday Times
Among other things, he used $132,000 to pay down the mortgage loan on his personal residence, $47,000 to pay his personal tax obligations, and $25,000 to settle a lawsuit.
Christianity Today
The city finally paid $29,000 to settle her lawsuit.
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However, this $1,200 had to be used to settle a lawsuit.
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In 2006, she agreed to pay $300,000 to settle the lawsuit for deceptive advertising practices.
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shareholder lawsuit
Or the hit from a shareholder lawsuit.
Times, Sunday Times
All are now preparing to spend a lot of time and money defending their reputations from shareholder lawsuits.
Times, Sunday Times
He said that while most shareholder lawsuits focus on past losses, some look to the future.
Times, Sunday Times
Many companies rarely issue prospectuses because they seldom do new share offerings, leaving little legal basis for shareholder lawsuits.
Globe and Mail
Insurers found themselves facing shareholder lawsuits seeking hundreds of millions of dollars in claims.
Globe and Mail
threaten a lawsuit
There was another controversy when a designer had to threaten a lawsuit to get back one of the garments.
Times, Sunday Times
Opponents of the measure immediately threatened a lawsuit.
Houston Chronicle
The union threatens a lawsuit.
Globe and Mail
Then it threatened a lawsuit.
Globe and Mail
Lobbyists for program proponents allegedly threatened a lawsuit to force the state to allocate additional tax credits to the program.
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