Ericsson and ZTE have chosen to trade off the role of both plaintiff and defendant, since each company is suing the other for several patent infringements.

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It is constantly involved in litigation, both as a plaintiff and defendant.

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Materiality is a fundamental element for an action alleging a failure to disclose under the securities laws and this is certainly the case for a plaintiff alleging that a defendant violated such duty by not properly disclosing the real nature, purpose, and scope of Shariah.

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The Court held that even though at trial the plaintiff would need to present circumstantial evidence to support the discrimination claim, it was sufficient for Rule 8 purposes for the plaintiff to alleged that he had been employed by the defendant and that he believed that he was fired for racially discriminatory reasons.

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The law of sexual harassment and the law of evidence allow the plaintiff to inquire into the defendant's relationship with other women -- with women in the workplace, which, in this case, included the president's relationship with Ms. Lewinsky.

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The little plaintiff or defendant who was promised a new rocking-horse when Jarndyce and Jarndyce should be settled has grown up, possessed himself of a real horse, and trotted away into the other world.

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In 2002, Germany approved the Codes of Conduct under International Law -- a statute that allows the German Federal Prosecutor to investigate and prosecute crimes constituting a violation of international human rights laws -- irrespective of the location of the defendant or plaintiff, the place where the crime was carried out, or the nationality of the persons involved.

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