For example, lawsuits brought by the division to enforce laws prohibiting race or sex discrimination in employment fell from about 11 per year under President Bill Clinton to about 6 per year under President George W. Bush.
Under New York law, for example, lawsuits for breach of contract can be filed up to six years after the violation of the contract, so most companies retain records related to contracts for at least that long, said Leslie D. Corwin, a lawyer at Greenberg Traurig, in New York.
For example, the lawsuit cited a $10 million property on which the borrower paid off the loan.
In one example, the lawsuit cites efforts to get insurance coverage for a project to replace more than 50 school buildings in Greenville, S.C.
For example, the lawsuit contends, executives were informed by a company lawyer that plans to offer stakes to doctors in partnerships that owned Columbia hospitals were potentially illegal.
For example, a lawsuit filed in September and supported by the National Rifle Association is challenging the longstanding federal law prohibiting licensed gun dealers from selling handguns to anyone under 21 years old.
For example, the lawsuit says, many of the loans ultimately sold to investors were "stated income" loans, in which borrowers could estimate their incomes without having to provide supporting documentation.
As the university was revising its conflict of interest policy, for example, the lawsuit says that Mr. Kannam's wife sent him an e-mail saying the new policy seemed "tailor-made" to apply to him.
By the autumn of 2000, for example, the lawsuit said Global Crossing was regularly swapping capacity on its network with other telecommunications companies, transactions that had little purpose beyond increasing the company's revenue at the end of each quarter.
For example, the lawsuit said, Seeds of Peace, which is based in Montana, was forced to move its bus three times before finally finding a spot at a Lutheran church where it set up to cook for protesters.
