Brandeis's article was a plea for a right to sue for damages against intrusions of privacy.
One big difference: the Democratic bill would allow patients to sue for damages if health plans harm them by denying benefits.
After the medical findings about asbestos in the 1960s, it became possible to sue for damages correlated with long-latency exposure to a substance.
They do this by selling details of their own policy holders' accidents to solicitors, who then encourage those drivers to sue for damages such as whiplash injury.
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The consequence of allowing individuals with no injury to be plaintiffs, and to sue for damages set by statute and not tied to any actual loss, is to allow the aggregation of large numbers of claims, giving rise to vast potential liability and undermining the just adjudication of claims.
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But New York's measure would go further than the others by letting rejected applicants sue employers for damages.
The hostages were released in January 1981 under a set of agreements, the Algiers Accords, which stipulated that the hostages could not sue Iran for damages.
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Because of the way manufacturers concealed the dangers, workers began to sue their employers for damages sometime in the mid-twentieth century.
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Customers cannot use UCITA to sue software vendors for damages, even in cases like the recent attacks by hackers using the Melissa virus and the Worm.
Their argument: The lower court's decision is in line with common law, which gives people the right to sue corporations for punitive damages when a manager (or a captain, in this case) was reckless.
"EasyJet intends to sue Luton Airport for the damages incurred as a result of their breach of contract, " added Mr Rothnie.
One main point of contentions is the Democratic proposal to give patients the right to sue their HMO for punitive damages when denied treatment.
The most closely watched of the four will be the case concerning the Violence Against Women Act, a 1994 law which allows women to sue their attackers for money damages.
The Justice Department action follows a landmark decision by a New York Federal Court holding that investors who were harmed by phony ratings could sue the rating agencies for damages.
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In what most sane civilians will probably see as a depressing loss of protection, a three-judge panel of the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that citizens can sue the United States for damages stemming from the use of information collected via wiretap, but not for the collection of information itself.
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In the court paperwork, Fine indicates he'll sue for defamation and seek undefined damages.
It would, for example, make it easier to shut down websites containing pirated material, or to sue pirates in foreign countries for damages.
For instance, the measure would allow victims to sue labor traffickers for unpaid wages and receive punitive damages.
And a change in the law allowed plaintiffs to sue employers not just for back wages but also for damages, and gave them the right to a jury trial.
Sports lawyer and fellow Forbes contributor, Darren Heitner, opined this summer that the NFL could see tobacco-like damages if retired players successfully sue the NFL for past negligence.
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They are asking for several million euros in damages or say they will sue.
American plaintiffs usually avoid having to pay anything to sue, since lawyers generally agree to work for free, in exchange for a share of any damages.
As things currently stand, if benefits are not paid as agreed or they are flat-out denied, you can sue the insurer for bad faith, which is something they do not take lightly given the treble damages and other punitive damages they might incur.
Since passage of a 1996 anti-terrorism law, victims have been able to sue nations in U.S. courts for acts of terrorism, but many have been unable to collect damages because a country's assets were frozen by the U.S. government.
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