Lewontin testified in an unsuccessful suit in California challenging the state's financing of research to develop automatic tomato pickers.

Some dealers and other businesses in the Fulton Fish Market have brought unsuccessful suits challenging the constitutionality of the city's rules that went into effect last September.

By 1703 Sarah and Thomas Egerton were embroiled in an apparently unsuccessful suit for divorce.

After that, Lord Seymour paid ardent and unsuccessful suit to the young girl and was eventually beheaded for his impertinence.

The unsuccessful suit charged another parking meter manufacturer with patent infringement and antitrust violations.

She had been a plaintiff in an unsuccessful suit to block the project.

"So much for economy," said David I. Fox, a lawyer who represented Union City firefighters in an unsuccessful suit to put the merger to a vote.

One of the unsuccessful suits filed by the Institute for Justice argued that the 13th Amendment forbids involuntary servitude.

Samuel Homfray brings an unsuccessful suit, at Hereford Assizes, of the commoners against the Dowlais Company.

Nonetheless, even potentially unsuccessful suits can be manipulated to grab headlines and then to delay or obscure the resolution of important public issues.