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SUE

To initiate a lawsuit or continue a legal proceeding for the recovery of a right; to prosecute, assert a legal claim, or bring action against a particular party.

sue

verb appeal to the law, apply for, ask for relief, bring a legal action, bring an action, bring to justice, bring to the bar, claim, commence a suit, contest, entreat, file a legal claim, file suit, implore, initiate a civil action, inntitute a legal proceeding, institute process, legally pursue, litigate against, make appeal to, orare, petition, plead, preeer a claim, press a claim, pursue a claim, put on trial, seek by request, supplicate, take to court
Associated concepts: power to sue, right to sue, standing to sue
Foreign phrases: Nemo alieno nomine lege agere potest.No one can sue in the name of another.

TO SUE. To prosecute or commence legal proceedings for the purpose of recovering a right.

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Holders cannot sue under the federal securities laws; only purchasers or sellers may do so.

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The Buck Stops Here

That includes spending taxpayers' money to sue the churches -- institutions which, among other things, governments at all three levels expect to look after the poor, destitute and psychologically damaged people of Canadian society.

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Among those who are most likely to file suits are the California Latino Redistricting Coalition - which last week threatened to sue over a perceived lack of Latino influence in the proposed Valley city council districts - and the city's municipal unions, which have pledged to stop at nothing to fight secession.

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Ancient crocodile chomped on plants

As an engineering practice, SUE enables State and local DOTs, design consultants, and utility companies to locate existing subsurface utilities with a high degree of accuracy and comprehensiveness.

Subsurface utility engineering: the SUE process revolutionized how designers, engineers, and contractors handle underground pipes and power lines during highway planning, design, and construction

Americans United has followed the case since its inception, and its legal team is filing a friend-of-the-court brief arguing that taxpayers should have the right to sue.

Hour of decision: Supreme Court will decide whether taxpayers can challenge President Bush's 'faith-based' crusade

They should realize and accept that difference is not deviance, deficiency, deprivation, or disadvantage (Sue & Sue, 2003).

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He also suspects that the flexible American legal system lends itself to such caricatures because in America, fat people really can sue McDonalds (whether they would win is an entirely different matter), so many of the fake lawsuit stories don't seem like that much of a stretch.

False alarm: how the media helps the insurance industry and the GOP promote the myth of America's "lawsuit crisis."

It's easy for them to sue multiple defendants and keep up the pace.

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Sue's divorce mediation practice is currently being threatened by judges who will not refer cases to Sue as long as she will not arbitrate divorce cases at their demand.

Mediating the self: the case of Sue

But in Sue, they turn up in aggregate, says Larson.

Turn your head and roar: can diagnosing disease in fossils shed light on modern maladies?

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