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Example sentences for: sued

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The smallest of the major tobacco companies, the Liggett Group, agreed to a settlement with attorneys general from 22 states who had sued to recoup money spent on health care for smokers.
The Justice Department and 20 states sued Microsoft for "illegal, anti-competitive practices."
The Wall Street Journal front-page news box and USAT 's "Money" front report that the government has sued Time Warner, charging that the company has misclassified hundreds of full-time employees (many of them writers and photographers) as freelancers, wrongly denying them benefits in the process.
The studio position is quite accurately summarized in the piece: "We in Hollywood have no responsibilities to society unless and until we might get sued."
Another spur to kiddie-cash collectors is that the FEC has never shown much interest in pursuing the issue (though two adult daughters of one big giver, Harold C. Simmons, recently sued their father for dipping into their trust funds to make contributions in their names).