Plaintiff
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2 Pa. judges given partial immunity in civil suit...has become known as the kids-for-cash scandal. Marsha Levick, a lawyer with the Juvenile Law Center in Philadelphia, a co-counsel for plaintiffs in the case, said Friday she did not consider the ruling to be a major setback. There are more... In this article: Plaintiff, Pennsylvania, Defendant, Allegation, and Luzerne County |
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Centre Daily Times | 4 hours ago
Pa. residents sue gas driller over polluted wells
...a lease with a major natural gas driller to explore a potentially lucrative formation beneath her land. Now Farnelli and others are plaintiffs in a lawsuit that alleges Houston-based Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. polluted their wells with methane...
In this article: Cabot Oil & Gas Corp., Methane, Pennsylvania, Natural gas, and Leasing
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Reuters | 6 hours ago
Pennsylvania residents sue over gas drilling
...wells and in two cases caused wellhead explosions due to a gas build-up, the 15 families in the lawsuit claim. Pat Farnelli, 46, a plaintiff in the lawsuit, told reporters on Friday that some of her eight children suffered stomach cramps...
In this article: Pennsylvania, Cabot Oil & Gas Corp, Thomson Reuters, Injunction, Methane, Natural gas, Waste, and Small business
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AP Online | 1 day ago
Negligence ruling in Katrina floods may cost feds
...maintain a navigation channel led to massive flooding in Hurricane Katrina. U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval on Wednesday awarded seven plaintiffs $720,000, but the government could eventually be forced to pay much more. The ruling should...
In this article: Stanwood Duval, Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, St. Bernard Parish, and Lower 9th Ward
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The Advertiser | 1 day ago
Plaintiffs savor legal victory over Army Corps
NEW ORLEANS (AP) The plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the Army Corps of Engineers are savoring the taste of victory after a federal judge ruled that the corps caused the flooding of St. Bernard Parish and New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward.
In this article: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet, Army Corps of Engineers, Stanwood Duval, St. Bernard Parish, and Lower Ninth Ward
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thestar.com | 1 day ago
Caledonia plaintiff's gun story under fire
...counsel David Feliciant opened his cross-examination of David Brown, 42, who is suing the province and OPP for $7 million, by suggesting the plaintiff had fabricated evidence. Brown, whose home abuts the occupied former Douglas Creek Estates...
In this article: Cross-examination and Ontario Provincial Police
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Men file abuse suits against Mormons, Boy Scouts
"This is not a lawsuit they brought lightly, but it is one they intend to see through." The plaintiffs, identified only as John Does, claim they were molested hundreds of times by 65-year-old William Eugene Knox, who married their mother...
In this article: Mormon church, Defendant, Portland, and Seattle
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Yahoo! News | 6 days ago
Google, Plaintiffs Submit Revised Book Search Settlement (PC World)
Google, Plaintiffs Submit Revised Book Search Settlement By Elizabeth Heichler, IDG News Service - Sat Nov 14, 2009 9:20AM EST Add articles about technology to your My Yahoo! Right up against a deadline to submit a revised settlement...
In this article: Google, U.S. Department of Justice, Revenue, U.S. Copyright Office, Authors Guild, Association of American Publishers, Denny Chin, and Yahoo
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Computer World | 6 days ago
Google, plaintiffs submit revised book search settlement
...the coffin of the original draft, and Judge Denny Chin from the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York gave Google and the plaintiffs until midnight Friday to submit a revised proposal. Google listed the following revisions...
In this article: Google, U.S. Department of Justice, Revenue, U.S. Copyright Office, Authors Guild, Association of American Publishers, and Denny Chin
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Description from Wikipedia:
A plaintiff (Π in legal shorthand), also known as a claimant or complainant, is the party who initiates a lawsuit (also known as an action) before a court. By doing so, the plaintiff seeks a legal remedy, and if successful, the court will issue judgment in favor of the plaintiff and make the appropriate court order (e.g., an order for damages).
In some jurisdictions the commencement of a lawsuit is done by filing a summons, claim form and/or a complaint — these documents are known as pleadings — that set forth the alleged wrongs committed by the defendant or defendants with a demand for relief. In other jurisdictions the action is commenced by service of legal process by delivery of these documents on the defendant by a process server; they are only filed with the court subsequently with an affidavit from the process server that they had been given to the defendant(s) according to the rules of civil procedure.
Not all lawsuits are plenary actions, involving a full trial on the merits of the case. There are also simplified procedures, often called proceedings, in which the parties are termed petitioner instead of plaintiff, and respondent instead of defendant. There are also cases that do not technically involve two sides, such as petitions for specific statutory relief that require judicial approval; in those cases there are no respondents, just a petitioner.
A plaintiff identified by name in a class action is called a named plaintiff.
The party to whom the complaint is against is the defendant; or in the case of a petition, a respondent. Case names are usually given with the plaintiff first, as in Plaintiff v. Defendant.
"Complainant" may also denote the complaining witness in a criminal proceeding.
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