A cause of action or right of action, in law, is a set of facts sufficient to justify suing to obtain money or property, or to justify the enforcement...

decision may preclude re-litigation of the issue in a suit on a different cause of action involving a party to the first cause. As this court and other courts...

such provisions are typically part of their civil and criminal codes. The cause of action dictates the statute of limitations, which can be reduced or...

as a plaintiff with a civil cause of action to enforce certain laws, or as a defendant in actions contesting the legality of the state's laws or seeking...

class action, also known as a class action lawsuit, class suit, or representative action, is a type of lawsuit where one of the parties is a group of people...

Medical malpractice is a legal cause of action that occurs when a medical or health care professional, through a negligent act or omission, deviates from...

expansive inference of private remedies, first adopting a four part test which imposed some limits on inferring a private cause of action, and then shifting...

starts from the date of accrual of the cause of action or (if later) knowledge of the potential cause of action. Summary offences: normally 6 months but...

of Canada held that alienation of affection and the related tort cause of action for "criminal conversation" was not available as a cause of action in...

that the plaintiff must prove each element of the claim, or cause of action in order to recover. The cost of pursuing civil litigation has sometimes been...