In court papers, the plaintiffs claimed that for more than five years, they were among hundreds of fellow umpires improperly listed as independent contractors.
The Missouri case charges that districts in St . Louisimproperly listed voters as inactive; the Tennessee case involves a state agency's potential violations of voter registration procedures.
It improperly listed a Hytrin patent in the Food and Drug Administration's registry, according to a federal appeals court; the move would have extended Hytrin's patent life had the court not ordered the patent struck from the registry.
Mr. Cuomo's investigation into school pensions followed articles published in Newsday in February revealing that lawyers who worked under contract for school districts or regional education agencies were being improperly listed as employees to collect health and pension benefits.
In the first action of its kind, the F.T.C. said today that a drug company, the Biovail Corporation, had illegally acquired an exclusive patent license and improperly listed the patent with the F.D.A. for the purpose of stifling generic competition with one of its brand-name drugs.
The inventors of the patents were improperly listed, and and additional filing was made to retroactively apply patent '913 to social networking.
In the literature there has been some confusion about the last name, properly "Merle d'Aubigné." (For the Classic article we republish this month from The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery PubMed improperly lists the author's last name as "d'Aubigne" and "RM" as the initials).
A committee statement about the security breach said a junior staff member, working from home, improperly placed a document listing all the continuing inquiries into a file-sharing software system to which people outside the committee had access.
An excessive or improperly designed list could cause checklist fatigue, and could thereby make it difficult to implement a more appropriate list [ 25].
Underscoring both sides' concerns over the Murkowski campaign, lawyers for state Democrats and Republicans have joined in a lawsuit accusing the State Division of Elections of improperly providing lists of write-in candidates to all voting locations and, in at least one polling place, in Homer, posting the lists inside voting booths.
