Legal experts say this type of approach has been used effectively by consumers who sued tobacco companies and other corporations that deliberately withheld information.

You're about to learn why it's painful to sue big corporations.

How eight families sued corporations over toxic waste.

A third would make it easier for shareholders to sue corporations for fraud.

He often represented individuals suing corporations or government entities, including plaintiffs in the following cases:

Some form of tort reform, limiting the ability of shareholders to sue corporations and their executives, is likely to be adopted by the new Congress.

It was not until the mid-1990's that the law was used to sue corporations.

The regulation allows a private citizen with knowledge of fraud against the government to sue individuals or corporations on behalf of the attorney general.

And if conservative judges continue to have their way, Western ranchers won't be able to sue predatory corporations.

But whatever risks he took in suing multibillion-dollar corporations pale in comparison to this terrorism case.