More recently, he was preparing a challenge to black jails, the illegal holding cells that some officials use to silence persistent critics.
Edward F. Cox, below, a lawyer and State University of New York trustee -- whose background in foreign and economic affairs was shaped partly from his perch as President Richard M. Nixon's son-in-law -- is preparing a challenge.
Leaders of the Republican-dominated Senate coalition said that the governor's move would further complicate the fight for control of the Senate and that they were preparing a challenge.
In an interview, Mr. Schneiderman said that he and his staff began preparing a challenge to the Defense of Marriage Act, which bars federal recognition of same-sex marriages, as soon as the State Legislature voted to legalize the unions last month.
Eager to engage and defeat one of the American frigates that had already scored a number of victories over the Royal Navy in single ship confrontations, Broke prepared a challenge.
Jim Dyke, a spokesman for the Republican National Committee, said he believed there was no need to prepare a public challenge to the film's validity upon its release.
The case came to light this past spring when a graduate student at the University of Miami School of Law's Center for Ethics and Public Service, 24-year-old Zach Lipshultz, was helping residents prepare a legal challenge to a trolley garage under construction in their West Grove neighborhood.
Even so, some of her political associates said they would prepare for a challenge before election regulators and the courts.
The suit may be an attempt to prepare for a challenge of the Nevada result, but it's not off to an auspicious start, with a skeptical judge ruling that ballots shouldn't be isolated from the rest of the count because they were allegedly cast late.
Chambers is believed to be preparing a legal challenge to his lifetime Olympic ban.
