What's the difference between case and lawsuit?

Case


Definition:

  • (n.) A box, sheath, or covering; as, a case for holding goods; a case for spectacles; the case of a watch; the case (capsule) of a cartridge; a case (cover) for a book.
  • (n.) A box and its contents; the quantity contained in a box; as, a case of goods; a case of instruments.
  • (n.) A shallow tray divided into compartments or "boxes" for holding type.
  • (n.) An inclosing frame; a casing; as, a door case; a window case.
  • (n.) A small fissure which admits water to the workings.
  • (v. t.) To cover or protect with, or as with, a case; to inclose.
  • (v. t.) To strip the skin from; as, to case a box.
  • (n.) Chance; accident; hap; opportunity.
  • (n.) That which befalls, comes, or happens; an event; an instance; a circumstance, or all the circumstances; condition; state of things; affair; as, a strange case; a case of injustice; the case of the Indian tribes.
  • (n.) A patient under treatment; an instance of sickness or injury; as, ten cases of fever; also, the history of a disease or injury.
  • (n.) The matters of fact or conditions involved in a suit, as distinguished from the questions of law; a suit or action at law; a cause.
  • (n.) One of the forms, or the inflections or changes of form, of a noun, pronoun, or adjective, which indicate its relation to other words, and in the aggregate constitute its declension; the relation which a noun or pronoun sustains to some other word.
  • (v. i.) To propose hypothetical cases.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Intestinal dilatation seemed in all cases a response to elevated CO2 only.
  • (2) By presenting the case history of a man who successively developed facial and trigeminal neural dysfunction after Mohs chemosurgery of a PCSCC, this paper documents histologically the occurrence of such neural invasion, and illustrates the utility of gadolinium-enhanced magnetic resonance scanning in patient management.
  • (3) A report is presented of 6 surgically-treated cases of recurrent cervical carcinoma.
  • (4) Guillain Barré syndrome following herpes zoster is rare and only 25 cases have been reported to date.
  • (5) In 49 cases undergoing systemic lymphadenectomy 32 were found to have glandular involvement, of which both aortic and pelvic nodes were positive in 17 cases (53.1%), aortic nodes positive but pelvic negative in six (18.8%), and pelvic nodes positive but aortic negative in nine (28.1%).
  • (6) These channels may, at least in some cases, be responsible for the generation of pacemaker depolarizations, thereby regulating firing behaviour.
  • (7) Weddellite calcification was associated with benign lesions in 16 cases, but incidental atypical lobular hyperplasia and lobular carcinoma in situ were present, each in one case.
  • (8) The fine structure of neurofibrillary tangles in the hippocampal gyrus, substantia nigra, pontine nuclei and locus coeruleus of the brain was postmortem studied in a case of progressive supranuclear palsy.
  • (9) Together these results suggest that IVC may operate as a selective activator of calpain both in the cytosol and at the membrane level; in the latter case in synergism with the activation induced by association of the proteinase to the cell membrane.
  • (10) In one of 28 cases with LCIS examined by mammography there was suspicion of carcinoma.
  • (11) Only 81 cases are reported in the international literature.
  • (12) Single-case experimental designs are presented and discussed from several points of view: Historical antecedents, assessment of the dependent variable, internal and external validity and pre-experimental vs experimental single-case designs.
  • (13) The data from this experience as well as others previously reported can yield prognostic indicators of survival in cases of accidental hypothermia.
  • (14) Subsequently, the study of bundle branch block and A-V block cases revealed that no explicit correlation existed between histopathological changes and functional disturbances nor between disturbances in conduction (i.e.
  • (15) The procedure was used on 71 occasions, and in each case a clinical diagnosis was made and compared with the cytological diagnosis made independently by a pathologist.
  • (16) The Cole-Moore effect, which was found here only under a specific set of conditions, thus may be a special case rather than the general property of the membrane.
  • (17) The analysis is based on the personal experience of the authors with 117 cases and the review of 223 cases published in the literature.
  • (18) The histological pattern of tumor was identified in 28 cases.
  • (19) In all cases the polyarthritis is cured by anti-inflammatory treatment in 1-6 months.
  • (20) This is a fascinating possibility for solving the skin shortage problem especially in burn cases.

Lawsuit


Definition:

  • (n.) An action at law; a suit in equity or admiralty; any legal proceeding before a court for the enforcement of a claim.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "We presently are involved in a number of intellectual property lawsuits, and as we face increasing competition and gain an increasingly high profile, we expect the number of patent and other intellectual property claims against us to grow," the company said.
  • (2) But Hogan’s is not the only lawsuit against Gawker that Thiel has been secretly backing.
  • (3) And this has opened up a loophole for businesses to be morally bankrupt, ignoring the obligations to its workforce because no legal conduct has been established.” Whatever the outcome of the pending lawsuits, it’s unlikely that just one model will work for everybody.
  • (4) Tomorrow the courts are expected to sign off a $97.5m payment by the company to its shareholders, after investors took a class action lawsuit against the company.
  • (5) In 2001, they filed a $4bn (£2.17bn) lawsuit against the government and two German firms in the US.
  • (6) According to shareholder Marvin Pearlstein, in a lawsuit filed in a federal court in Manhattan on Friday, the Canadian-based BlackBerry, formerly Research In Motion Ltd, misled investors last year by saying the company was "progressing on its financial and operational commitments," and that previews of its BlackBerry 10 platform had been well received by developers.
  • (7) The advocates had attempted to get a decision by filing lawsuits directly with the supreme court rather than through an appeal of a lower court decision.
  • (8) Taylor’s lawsuit questions whether the Tulsa pharmacy can legally produce and deliver compounded pentobarbital.
  • (9) Recent research has shown that more than two-thirds of internet users would ignore warning letters, and with more than 6 million internet users in Britain regularly downloading illegally copied music and films, the media industry believes so-called "technical measures", such as ­slowing down broadband connections, should be introduced before the courts system is clogged up with thousands of lawsuits.
  • (10) Malpractice lawsuits due to temporomandibular joint (TMJ) and odontostomatognathic (OSG) injuries following dental therapy are increasing.
  • (11) But he is fighting two lawsuits from Zuma over cartoons relating to the rape trial and a dramatic depiction of the rape of Justice.
  • (12) This issue boils down to the question whether the ballot sponsors are more like citizens with strong policy views about a law (who normally cannot defend a law in federal court) or, instead, surrogate public officials who can act as the state for purposes of this lawsuit when the state itself refuses to do so (who would be permitted to defend the law).
  • (13) But another lawsuit against Zuckerberg, by Paul Ceglia , a New York-based former wood-pellet salesman who argues that a 2003 contract with Zuckerberg gives him a claim to a large share of the company, which was started in 2004, continues.
  • (14) The exact number of lawsuits involving vulture funds operating in offshore tax havens is unclear, as many of these funds are highly secretive of their holdings.
  • (15) However, the public response to the ruling might just potentially help the singer achieve her lawsuit’s other goal – to end her contract with Kemosabe.
  • (16) He also alleges that the Japanese government is trucking radioactive material from the Fukushima site all over Japan, in order to "increase the cancer rate in the whole of Japan so that there will be no control group" of children unaffected by the disaster, in order to help the Japanese government prevent potential lawsuits from people whose health may have been affected by the radiation.
  • (17) Another lawsuit obliged Ian Hamilton to rewrite large sections of an unauthorised biography published in 1988 – the supreme court ruled that quotations from Salinger's letters infringed his copyright.
  • (18) In 1967, I indicated that the number of lawsuits involving malformed infants seemed to be increasing, not realizing that the increase was foretelling an epidemic.
  • (19) A lawsuit filed with a federal court in Washington last week argues that night-time feeding could lead to long periods without water, endangering the hunger strikers.
  • (20) This child has spent a significant part of his life so far in detention – he understands clearly that this is not a place someone his age should be.” Berks County, along with two similar family detention facilities in Texas, are the subject of a current lawsuit in the US district court in Los Angeles in which human rights advocates have called for the centers to be shut down arguing that they violate federal child protection laws.

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