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lawsuit
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lawsuit
Law & medicine An action in which one party, a plaintiff, seeks a remedy for a wrong allegedly committed by another–eg, defendant. See Class action lawsuit, Parasitic lawsuit, Qui tamlawsuit.


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And 10 years after a civil court found him liable for those two murders and ordered him to pay $33.
She also serves as an arbitrator for the Civil Court of the City of New York.
What all of this means is that while under canon law, a parish's assets and liabilities generally belong to the parish and not to the diocese, a civil court may not see things that way when a diocese organized as a corporation sole finds itself in court, despite the bishop's claim that, according to canon law, he does not "own" the parishes.
 
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