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Example sentences for: civil

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The parents of the dead child immediately filed a civil suit against Woodward (for wrongful death?
3 million to help provide civil legal services to the poor.
At the time the amendment was enacted, it was fairly clear that the drafters and the public had a broad construction in mind, for the Thirteenth Amendment became the constitutional foundation in 1866 for the first Civil Rights Act—indeed, the Act that is still used today to prosecute those who, like the police who beat up Rodney King, engage in racially motivated deprivations of civil rights.
Developing structures and processes for building and maintaining comprehensive, integrated, statewide civil legal assistance delivery systems may define the process more accurately but it is certainly a mouthful.
The files are believed to provide material for lawsuits against the state and also for the reopening of long-dormant cases of crimes against civil rights workers, along the lines of the long-delayed but finally successful prosecution of the man who murdered Medgar Evers.