"We have long maintained that the government's claims were not valid," said Seth Moskowitz, a spokesman for R. J. Reynolds.
"As far as we are concerned, the acquisition of IPTL was valid," said Joseph Makandege, PAP's company secretary and chief counsel.
Old assumptions about the value of major labels are no longer valid, said Howie Klein, a former president of Reprise.
All consent agreements established while the law was in effect would remain valid, said Terry Stanton, a spokesman for the State Treasury Department.
"I thought the sources were varied enough" to seem valid, said one board member, who asked not to be named.
"There have to be only a few things in a deed to make it valid," said Robert E. Parella, a professor of law at St . Johns University School of Law in Jamaica, Queens.
"We do consider the contract to be valid," said Larry McDonnell, a spokesman for Sprint PCS, a national cellular telephone network with headquarters in Kansas City, Mo.
Early in the American occupation, the question arose whether the Hussein government's decision was valid, said Michael Stinson, the former chief adviser to the Iraqi Oil Ministry.
Companies are pushing things that aren't valid, saying send us your DNA and we'll give you advice about lifestyle or diet based on your genetic profile.
