Sentence examples for illegal contract from inspiring English sources

"If it please the court," Kornstein said, "this is a case about an illegal contract".

"To me, the most dramatic thing I did was to expose the illegal contract," she said.

There are circumstances where an illegal contract might be honored, such as when there's a formal contract, and the "impact of forfeiture outweighs illegality".

In response, American Needle brought an antitrust lawsuit against the NFL and its teams, claiming that the exclusive license with Reebok eliminated competition in the market for NFL apparel and constituted an illegal "contract, combination...or conspiracy" in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act.

And because gambling was illegal, contracts were unenforceable.

The Senate voted last week to investigate whether Petrobras had avoided tax payments and awarded illegal contracts, among other issues.

The Timberwolves signed Smith in January 1999 to a series of illegal contracts, violating the league's collective bargaining rules.

N.B.A. Commissioner David Stern voided Smith's contract after he found the Timberwolves guilty of signing him to a series of illegal contracts.

Investigators looking into a fire that ravaged a central Shanghai high-rise apartment, killing at least 53 people, said an energy-saving project that used illegal contracts, unsafe materials and unqualified workers was mainly to blame.

When America's Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) sued Intrade in November for offering illegal contracts on the price of goods regulated by the agency, critics complained that the decision would strip the economy of a highly valuable source of information.The regulators now appear to have been vindicated.

C1 Ruling in Cattle Contract Case A federal jury in Alabama awarded a group of ranchers $1.28 billion in damages after it found that the country's largest beef packing firm used illegal contracts to hold down the prices it paid for beef.