Back to Civil Cases - Suing and Being Sued in the Superior Court of Justice page. A civil case is a lawsuit that usually deals with contracts and/or torts. Torts, generally speaking, are wrongful (negligent) acts that result in damage or injury. Civil cases can occur by way of action or application.
Professor Chris Austin, of Louisiana State University, who discovered the frog on a three-month field trip to the Pacific island, said by contrast these creatures make their habitats on fallen leaves on the floor of tropical rainforests. The tiny creature was discovered in Amau, Papua New Guinea. His discovery of the creatures, named Paedophryne amanuensis after a village called Amau near where they were found, will help scientists understand more about extreme body size, he wrote in the journal PLoS One.
First Contact. European explorers were the first to encounter indigenous peoples of the New World. The first contact may have occurred when Thorvald, brother of Leif Eriksson, died in a skirmish with natives near Vinland in present-day Newfoundland.Thorvald may have been the first European to die and be buried in America.Nearly five centuries later, word that Christopher Columbus had discovered what was believed to be a western approach to the East Indies spread through Europe, which energized other nations to dispatch explorers.horvald may have been the first European to die and be buried in America. Nearly five centuries later, word that Christopher Columbus had discovered what was believed to be a western approach to the East Indies spread through Europe, which energized other nations to dispatch explorers.