If Congress makes it easier for injured patients to sue health insurance companies, lawyers here will be well prepared.

That judgment makes it far easier for America Online to sue for damages.

Legal reforms passed in 1993 made it easier for individual shareholders to sue companies, and the number of shareholder cases has more than doubled since then.

The law also made it much more difficult to sue companies simply because they reported bad news and their stock prices went down.

This makes it easier for minority voters to sue local governments and eliminate at-large elections.

The action, he said, would make it easier for third parties to sue physicians who do not inform them that they are at risk of infection.

Previous court cases make it difficult for shareholders to sue a company's business partners on charges of complicity in a fraud.

And the only way to lower costs is to create "no-fault" compensation systems that make it virtually impossible to sue for personal damages.

Find out how the file-sharing structure works and see why it makes it difficult for record labels to sue.

Federal judges are also interpreting traditional doctrines on standing and jurisdiction to make it more difficult for environmental groups to sue in the first place.