About 2,800 dealers were eligible to file for arbitration under a law passed last month.
Once that period lapsed, she gradually became aware she was eligible to file a suit under the False Claims Act.
Yesterday, the day he would have been eligible to file for arbitration, Elias and the Devils agreed on a three-year contract believed to be worth $14.75 million.
If Philadelphia had not exercised the option, Wagner would have been owed a $3 million buyout and would have been eligible to file for free agency.
Mr. Bush said that about 200,000 immigrants who had been eligible to file to adjust their status failed to do so in time.
There is some disagreement over when the strip-searches stopped, and consequently, on how many people are eligible to file claims.
The new regulations also make it difficult for accident victims who do not meet the deadline to obtain information needed for a lawsuit they might otherwise be eligible to file, Mr. Golomb said.
Peter Greenberg, the agent for third baseman Edgardo Alfonzo, said yesterday that the Mets had told him they would not offer Alfonzo another contract before he is eligible to file for free agency, 15 days after the World Series.
If the victim does not press felony charges, they cannot have hospital charges, medication and therapy costs covered; they cannot recover lost wages; nor will they be eligible to file a restraining order.
Californians were lured not only by the climate and gambling but also by Nevada's newly relaxed divorce laws, which required only a six-week residency in the state before one was eligible to file for divorce.
