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A cause of action or right of action, in law, is a set of facts sufficient to justify suing to obtain money or property, or to justify the enforcement of a legal right against another party. The term also refers to the legal theory upon which a plaintiff brings suit (such as breach of contract , battery , or false imprisonment ).
A lawsuit may also involve issues of public law in the sense that the state is treated as if it were a private party in a civil case, either as a plaintiff with a civil cause of action to enforce certain laws or as a defendant in actions contesting the legality of the state's laws or seeking monetary damages for injuries caused by agents of the ...
While the elements of a cause of action for legal malpractice may vary by state, under typical state law the four elements of legal malpractice are: An attorney-client relationship, Negligence by the attorney, A loss or injury to the client caused by the negligence, and; Financial loss or injury to the client.
A New Jersey Judge tossed out a Democrat lawsuit attempting to pin blame on oil companies for damages to the state allegedly caused by climate change. ... NJ lawsuit claiming oil companies cause ...
A new class action lawsuit is changing the way a lot of people look at their everyday hygiene habits. In the lawsuit Vasseur v.Johnson & Johnson Consumer, Inc. et al., the plaintiff alleges that ...
Without publication of the existence of a lawsuit, innocent buyers might discover the existence of a lawsuit too late. The harsh effect of this rule, and its effect on innocent purchasers, led many jurisdictions to enact lis pendens statutes requiring a written notice, usually recorded in the land records where the real estate is located, for ...
The lawsuit claims that waste sludge from the production of leather, containing high levels of hexavalent chromium, was distributed to farmers in northwest Missouri to use as fertilizer on their fields. It is believed to be a potential cause of an abnormally high number of brain tumors around the town of Cameron, Missouri. Prior to the lawsuit ...
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