How to Use file/bring (a) suit in a Sentence
file/bring (a) suit
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But that is not the standard for standing to bring a suit.
—ABC News, 16 Apr. 2023
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As a result, the industry did not have standing to file suit.
—Ed Silverman, STAT, 7 Feb. 2023
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Opponents have vowed to file suit to stop the law from taking effect.
—J. David Goodman, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2023
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This prompted two De Armas fans – who’d each paid Amazon $3.99 to rent the film – to file suit, claiming they were deprived of the full value of the film.
—Jack Greiner, The Enquirer, 12 Jan. 2023
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Herman refused to sign this, instead choosing to file suit against the trust owning the house from which she was ejected.
—Staff Author, Peoplemag, 7 May 2023
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Still, Yelp expects Paxton to file suit as early as Friday.
—Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 28 Sep. 2023
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Bamber also plans to file a suit in civil court to seek financial damages for his clients.
—Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff, Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2023
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Drivers need only bring a suit and helmet (and a copilot to navigate).
—Michael Van Runkle, Robb Report, 15 Dec. 2023
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Beyond that period, a claimant has the right to file suit or await final Navy adjudication of the claim.
—Catherine Herridge, CBS News, 29 Nov. 2022
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Tom Fitton, who heads the group, questioned how Bost as a political candidate lacked the standing to file suit.
—Rick Pearson, Chicago Tribune, 27 July 2023
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Two players have filed lawsuits against the school, according to multiple reports, and Crump said his team also will file a suit.
—Josh Peter, USA TODAY, 19 July 2023
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The team plans to file suit in Delaware Court of Chancery, where many corporate battles are litigated, as soon as this week, the person said.
—Elizabeth Dwoskin, Washington Post, 11 July 2022
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Schmitt had threatened to file suit before Thursday's bill signing, but the mayor was undeterred.
—Andy Rose and Aya Elamroussi, CNN, 22 July 2022
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When Herbel will file suit is up to her attorneys, who are waiting to get additional records.
—Luke Nozicka, Kansas City Star, 3 Apr. 2024
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Former City Attorney Mike Aguirre threatened to file suit if the board approved the more aggressive proposal.
—David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Mar. 2024
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Columbia’s announcement comes just ahead of a looming deadline for survivors to file suit against the university.
—Bianca Fortis, ProPublica, 13 Nov. 2023
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Miller-Novak said there is no reason Cain waited nearly a year after being temporarily barred from meetings to file suit.
—Olivia Krauth, The Courier-Journal, 21 Sep. 2022
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Four Central Florida residents file suit to block the Reedy Creek dissolution.
—George Petras, USA Today, 16 May 2023
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Gandhi's lawyers said there were procedural errors in the trial and argued that since the comment was about corruption and Narendra Modi, the prime minister should have been the one to file suit, not Purnesh Modi.
—Peter Weber, The Week, 23 Mar. 2023
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Attorneys’ groups have argued insurers are also to blame for refusing to pay out claims, saying homeowners file suit as a last resort.
—Anthony Izaguirre, Fortune, 6 Dec. 2022
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Any individual or business claiming to be harmed by local ordinances can bring a suit against that government; attorneys’ fees are paid by the loser.
—Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 30 June 2023
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Another was that, in order to trigger the desegregation process, parties had either to petition their local school boards or, failing that, to bring suit in federal court.
—Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
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But the post office was doing an increasing amount of business with Amazon, which has no particular reverence for the Fourth Commandment, and so Groff’s requests were denied, leading him to retire, and file suit.
—Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2024
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But some progressives criticized him for the pace of his effort — first waiting about three months after becoming Ways and Means Committee chairman to request the returns from Treasury and then another three months to file suit.
—Jim Puzzanghera, BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2023
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The company has hired merger-law heavyweight Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz and aims to file suit early this week, according to people familiar with the company’s plans, who asked not to be identified because the matter is private.
—Divya Balji, BostonGlobe.com, 11 July 2022
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Those who believe they have been harmed by such procedures can file suit for damages, according to the bills, which would also cut off public funding and Medicaid reimbursement for such procedures.
—Jon Brown, Fox News, 24 Mar. 2023
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Under California law, the prior owner has six years to file suit, and the Cassirer family did so five years after learning that the Spanish museum possessed its property, per the paper’s editorial board.
—Menachem Wecker, Sun Sentinel, 17 Jan. 2024
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