claim
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Allowing a lawsuit to proceed based on such a flimsy claim of injury would open the floodgates to all manner of claims that rest on nothing more than individuals’ feelings, not concrete injury.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
“Netflix disputes any claim that it bears the risk of loss for a film delivered without the proper industry-standard safeguards,” the company said in a statement last month.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
Now other folks are making the same claim from the opposite side of the court.
From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2026
Don’t miss: Can I claim 50% of my husband’s Social Security now — and switch to my higher benefit at 70?
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026
Though exact numbers aren’t known, some experts claim that the total number of victims may have doubled to 200,000 or more.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Copies of clips are being quickly removed due to copyright claims, and multiple accounts claiming to belong to the group behind the hacks have also disappeared.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
The Society for the Rule of Law and a group of former White House lawyers warned the court against accepting Trump’s broad claims of power.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
TikTok has agreed to pay $400 million to settle a lawsuit with the US Department of Justice over claims that the video-sharing platform violated federal children's privacy laws, the department announced on Friday.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
Allowing a lawsuit to proceed based on such a flimsy claim of injury would open the floodgates to all manner of claims that rest on nothing more than individuals’ feelings, not concrete injury.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
“Beowulf is also ill. He claims to have a headache in his leg.”
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
Survivors of various attacks spoke of how their lives changed forever, including Paul Price, a survivor of the Manchester Arena attack, that claimed the life of his wife Elaine.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
Jeffries had claimed he was suffering from severe dementia and was unfit to proceed to trial.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Sheinbaum has since faced questions about why her administration allowed the pilot out of the country while they claimed to be investigating the events surrounding Zambada’s capture, including the assassination of a prominent Sinaloan politician.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
The defense claimed that kidney test evidence produced at the trial belonged to Maradona's father, also named Diego, who died in 2015, not the star of the 1986 World Cup.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
Leonard was always on the lookout for the “surveillance drones” he claimed flew nightly missions over Brooklyn.
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
Copies of clips are being quickly removed due to copyright claims, and multiple accounts claiming to belong to the group behind the hacks have also disappeared.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
Federal authorities will seek to deport Manuel Ernesto Hernandez-Umana, claiming he lied to cross the southern border in 2017.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Pezeshkian also defended a memorandum of understanding agreed with the US in June aimed at ending the war, claiming it did not signal a defeat for Tehran.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
Then came news this week that a poll the Bass campaign had promoted, claiming that she held a commanding lead over Raman, turned out to be fake.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
Many of the Japanese would scoop up or pluck the aromatic leaves and boil them and inhale the steam, claiming that it was good for colds; others felt that camphor steam could be harmful.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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