James Delaplane of the American Benefits Council in Washington, which represents large employers on benefits and pension issues, termed the employee lawsuits "fairly creative claims of violation of fiduciary duty".
Putin's campaign chief, Stanislav Govorukhin, rejected the claims of violations, calling them "ridiculous".
But after she broke off the two-year affair in 1999, Ms. Conner charged, her business was inundated with state inspectors filing claims of violations and substandard care.
The class-action suit, filed by the law firm of Milberg Weiss, also raised claims of violations of state antitrust laws, an issue Judge Pauley said had not previously been addressed by appellate courts.
The case law is to the same effect, although, of course, federal courts may act to preserve and decide claims of violations of the Constitution of the United States in certain circumstances, especially where a state remedy is inadequate.
Sales points out that eBays claim of copyright violations is in direct contradiction to the terms in its own user agreement, which states that item listings are the property of the sellers who post them.
There have been no claims of copyright violation by the artist.
The discount broker Charles Schwab based its claim of a RICO violation on the banks' having engaged in a pattern of racketeering activity involving mail, wire and bank fraud in manipulating Libor.
Eventually, Starr produced a lengthy report on that relationship, including salacious details and a series of claims about violations of the law by the President.
To these mutual shows of force must be added the repeated Nato claims of Russian violations of its airspace or territorial waters.
This gives time for labor agencies and law enforcement to investigate claims of workplace violations, investigations that now are often short-circuited after complainants disappear or are deported.
