First came a lawsuit filed by a handful of local disgruntled black merchants and the regional branch of the N.A.A.C.P. charging civil rights violations.

National Medical Enterprises recently made a $125 million settlement in a lawsuit filed by insurance companies charging fraud and faces a number of similar suits.

Eventually when she demanded that he be discharged, she was told a complaint had been filed charging her with neglect, and he could not leave.

It is one of the biggest cases that the Justice Department has ever filed charging an international violation of United States antitrust law.

Class-action suits have been filed in more than 30 states charging Wal-Mart supervisors with pressuring employees to work off the clock.

A suit was then filed charging the three districts with refusing the students on racial grounds.

The lawsuit was the first ever filed in Japan charging sexual harassment.

In 1992, another federal suit was filed charging that the system of judicial conventions denied black and Latino voters an opportunity to participate in the election of judges.

Two class action lawsuits have been filed charging Sanofi Pasteur Inc. with violating U.S. antitrust laws, as a result of its bundling practices.

At least two lawsuits were filed charging that the effort to limit transfers violated the law.