Lawsuits

The company was inundated with lawsuits.

Since the drug company had selected only favourable or neutral research reports to submit to the government for approval, and had failed to disclose any data from those studies which had shown the experimental drug to be harmful, the company was perceived to be unethical, and many lawyers believed that lawsuits were now in the offing.

An often bankrupt developer of real estate repeatedly claims that his companies are enormously successful, while two lawsuits characterize his so-called university as a fraudulent enterprise.

Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.

Numerous other lawsuits are pending.

Some regard Monsanto's lawsuits as a stratagem to impose costly delays on Argentine soy meal exports to Europe, and thereby pressure the Argentine government to change its seed laws to suit the company.

The president says class-action lawsuits are an effective way for large groups of plaintiffs to seek justice against corporate wrongdoing. He says the goal of the new law is to ensure that lawyers do not manipulate class-action suits for personal gain.