Word: suit
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...want Abu Ali running around their country. U.S. officials, who say Abu Ali "was not on the radar screen" before the Saudis arrested him, developed a deep interest in him once they did but also had trouble lining up sufficient evidence. Finally, Abu Ali's family filed a civil suit last summer to get him returned to the U.S., forcing the Justice Department's hand. The Saudis, eager to avoid the p.r. nightmare of putting an American citizen on trial for terrorism, were relieved to hustle Abu Ali aboard an FBI flight to Washington. Now it was the U.S. that...
Wrinn says the initial dismissal of The Crimson’s suit last March confirmed the University’s position that “the law as it currently stands appropriately takes into account the respect for individuals’ privacy and concerns about safety...
...Middlesex Superior Court justice dismissed The Crimson’s suit last year, siding with Harvard’s attorneys. The justice maintained that HUPD officers were private employees and not subject to public records laws...
...after Rips' father died, a loose thread appeared: a portfolio of paintings of a naked black woman. Nobody knew who the woman was or anything about the nature of her relationship to the family patriarch. Rips began tugging at the thread, and before long the whole gray flannel suit unraveled...
...Some victims do not want to report to the police because they think a criminal suit will ensue, and that’s not the case at all,” said Catalano. “It’s just in case they want to pursue a criminal case later on. It does not mean it’s automatically going to go to court...