"In most of the cases, these were made up and were unfounded, in order to totally discredit Russian sport," said Mikhail Mamiashvili, president of Russia's Wrestling Federation.
The case, Dupuy v. McEwen, No. 07-1075, was a class-action lawsuit brought on behalf of thousands of parents, who maintained that they were effectively forced to go along with the plans, even when the accusations were unfounded, in order to avoid having their children placed in foster care.
Rather than coming together to find ways to tackle both crime and unfair police practices, some resort to spreading unfounded, outright lies in order to keep the status quo.
"We regret that Craigslist felt compelled to resort to unfounded and unsubstantiated claims in order to divert attention from actions by Craigslist's board that unfairly diluted our minority interest," eBay spokeswoman Kim Rubey said in a statement.
Lord Mandelson, the business secretary, said: "What is so ghastly about this is that somebody like Stephen Byers feels it necessary to make completely untrue, unfounded boasts to these people in order to get himself future business," he told BBC2's Newsnight last night.
The authorities at the Erie County Holding Center said yesterday that they had approved a request by Mr. Kopp's lawyer, Paul J. Cambria Jr. "When someone has a case that has received a lot of attention, many times other prisoners will make unfounded claims of a confession in order to try to reduce their own sentences," Mr. Cambria said.
These allegations are unfounded, and yet another misguided attempt for publicity in order to deflect attention from Jawbone's own lack of performance.
This attack is unfounded, because it fails to understand how the system was altered in order to force the Baby Boomers to finance their own benefits in retirement.
Reckitt then allegedly expressed "unfounded concerns" to the Food and Drug Administration about children getting access to Suboxone tablets in order to delay approval of generic versions of the drug.
Tymoshenko's husband, Oleksandr, spent two years (2002 2004) in hiding in order to avoid incarceration on charges the couple said were unfounded and politically motivated by the former Kuchma administration.
Instead, on the basis of unfounded fears, those pushing for passage of Amendment 1 are willing to harm existing families in order to enshrine in the state constitution their especially restrictive view of what family means.
