- A
plaintiff (Π in
legal shorthand) is the
party who
initiates a
lawsuit (also
known as an action)
before a court. By
doing so, the
plaintiff s****s a legal...
- on "
plaintiff in error", but its
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Plaintiff in error...
- to
bring claims on
behalf of consumers. In a
typical class action, a
plaintiff sues a
defendant or a
number of
defendants on
behalf of a group, or class...
- A
lawsuit is a
proceeding by one or more
parties (the
plaintiff or claimant)
against one or more
parties (the defendant) in a
civil court of law. The...
- The eggs****
skull rule (also thin
skull rule, papier-mâché-
plaintiff rule, or
talem qualem rule) is a well-established
legal doctrine in
common law,...
-
based on negligence. If it is available, the
defense completely bars
plaintiffs from any
recovery if they
contribute to
their own
injury through their...
- June 20, 1961) was an
American welder and
episcopal pastor who was the
plaintiff in the
landmark 1954 U.S.
Supreme Court case
Oliver Brown, et al. v. Board...
-
amount of
damages that a
plaintiff can
recover in a negligence-based claim,
based upon the
degree to
which the
plaintiff's own
negligence contributed...
- by
which the
plaintiff demands that the
defendant return a
thing that
belongs to the
plaintiff. It may be used only when the
plaintiff owns the thing...
- A
fictitious defendant is a
person that
cannot be
identified by the
plaintiff before a
lawsuit is commenced.
Commonly this
person is
identified as "John...
