If the parties to a suit reach a settlement, he said, the defendant does not normally admit liability.

Amines curiae briefs are briefs filed by people or groups who are not parties to a suit.

Had they not, the suit would probably have been heard in Federal court because of a jurisdictional rule that can be invoked when parties to a suit are in different states.

Appearance (law), the coming into court of either of the parties to a suit, and/or the formal act by which a defendant submits himself to the jurisdiction of the court.

Professor Ginsburg said that generally the "law of the place of origin" of the content in question should apply when the parties to a suit come from jurisdictions whose laws conflict.

It also constrains "forum shopping" by patent plaintiffs, who bring a huge proportion of suits in troll-friendly courts that may have little or no connection to the parties to a suit.

Where the government does not intervene, the False Claims Act provides the government a right to receive copies of the parties' pleadings and deposition transcripts (rights usually reserved for parties to a suit).

It is the court's duty to do so where, as here, the public interest has been placed at hazard by the amenities of parties to a suit conducted under the domination of only one of them.

The acting justice sits normally alone to hear, causes in his canton of the peace, but, at the request of both parties to a suit, he may call in an honorary justice as assessor or substitute.

If approved by the judge, the so-called notice program would dwarf the notification effort in what was previously the largest class action ever certified, the 40 million to 50 million people who were parties to a suit against large airlines in 1991 for overcharging.

It also allows any parties to a suit to ask the courts to sanction their opponents, usually by imposing heavy fines, if the courts find the suits to be groundless and determine that they were meant mainly to harass the defendants or to draw attention to a cause.

A consent decree (also referred to as a consent order or stipulated judgment or agreed judgment) is a final, binding judicial decree or judgment memorializing a voluntary agreement between parties to a suit in return for withdrawal of a criminal charge or an end to a civil litigation.

The office of coroner is, "in many instances, a necessary substitute: for if the sheriff is interested in a suit, or if he is of affinity with one of the parties to a suit, the coroner must execute and return the process of the courts of justice."