Word: sues
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...jailed for a year. Lawyers and other brokers who promote surrogacy contracts are branded felons; they can be fined $50,000 and imprisoned for five years. Surrogate arrangements involving no fee remain legal. Surrogacy Lawyer Noel Keane and the American Civil Liberties Union say they will sue to have the law declared unconstitutional...
...Senate feared Bork would push the Justices into overturning landmark decisions on civil rights. All the more reason for the uproar last April, when Justice Anthony Kennedy, who filled the vacant seat, joined a 5-to-4 court majority inviting reargument of a 1976 decision that allowed citizens to sue private institutions for damages resulting from racial discrimination...
...choice: if investigators prove that a contract was obtained illegally, a court may rule that contract invalid. For example, Grumman Corp. lost the advanced tactical aircraft contract to the combine of McDonnell Douglas and General Dynamics. If allegations in Ill Wind search warrants are proved correct, Grumman could sue to have a new competition...
Women entrepreneurs are helping one another expand their businesses as well. Sue Ling Gin, 47, a self-made real estate millionaire who runs an airline-food company in Chicago, discovered that a group of ambitious single mothers and other tenants in the city's LeClaire Courts housing project had formed a small company that prepares meals, mostly for local day-care centers. When Gin decided to bid on a $38 million food-and-beverage contract for fast-growing Midway airport, she offered the LeClaire group a 15% interest in the venture. If Gin wins the contract, the LeClaire operation will...
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