Given that plans for a 12-day Christmas strike were also deemed illegal, one could start to question Unite's procedures.

ECONOMIST: BA strike

Arizona could not go ahead with what police statewide were preparing to start doing this morning, stepping up checks for illegal immigrants.

MSN: Ariz. immigration law has echoes across U.S.

The problem, as Modou Sarr found, is that the start-ups are mostly peddlers who are unlicensed and illegal, and the city keeps a tight rein on the number of street-vending licences it issues.

ECONOMIST: African immigrants

Previously, Mr. Meister said that if the court ruled that the buyout provision was illegal, that ruling could nullify the IPO vote and possibly require the process to start again.

WSJ: Empire State Building Clears a Hurdle to IPO

Mr. Meister said that if the court rules the buyout provision is illegal, that could nullify the votes on the IPO plan and possibly require the process to start again.

WSJ: Judge Boosts Empire State Building Sale Plan

They told Karnal Singh to start over because he pressed his hands against his ears during the car-pulling, gaining illegal leverage.

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"After my experience trying to start a legal taxpaying company in Afghanistan, I understand very well why people prefer to go into illegal businesses, " he says.

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