Any claimant denied payment has the right to sue for redress under the law, which means BP has an incentive to get these payouts right.

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They raise the vexed question of compensation: not just money, but the promise of different legal treatment, including the right to sue for redress.

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Ridgely Jr. and his firm assert that these Circular 230 restrictions violate his First Amendment right to petition the government for a redress of grievances and his due process right to obtain a refund of taxes paid.

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"If that does not occur by Friday, we will advise our clients of their right to sue the IRS for the redress of their grievances, " Mr. Sekulow said in a statement.

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Even where a clear right to redress exists, the on-line catalogue customer in Tokyo, say, can hardly go to Newark or Nottingham to extract a refund for a dud purchase.

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In the 1960s it was right to set up programmes to help black Americans redress years of discrimination.

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