They also warn project leaders that they could be liable for legal damages from sponsors for failure to deliver on promises.

The tobacco industry could be assessed no more than $6.5 billion a year in legal damages, but the companies would have no immunity from class-action lawsuits.

Vaughn was the only player to pursue legal damages brought on by the controversy.

The move could help the government avoid billions of dollars in potential legal damages over its failure to build its own repository.

Intermedics still faces unspecified legal damages from a patent-infringement suit won recently by Medtronic.

Thus, the money is a form of legal damages.

Other analysts following Citigroup have been more cautious about estimating any legal damages or fines the bank may have to pay.

Naturally, I was trying to limit the legal damages and shield the image of the church.

Whether legal damages or equitable relief are requested depends largely on if the remedy can be valued.

(Similarly, Volkswagen had had to pay legal damages over the Beetle in the 1960s.)