Thankfully for team ownership, the Bombay High Court offered some legal relief by setting a hearing for September 24 and ruling that the BCCI must wait to take offers from new prospective ownership groups, like the 32-bank consortium that made an offer over the weekend to manage the team.

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As the very wealthy assume political power through the virtually unlimited campaign spending that the U.S. Supreme Court now allows, do they not also demand tax relief and legal protections?

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But Jim Quinn, the lead Players Association counsel, said the judge made it clear she wanted the two sides to reach a settlement in the lawsuit, which would allow the players to return to work but maintain their legal rights to seek relief in the courts under antitrust laws that prohibit the teams from acting in concert.

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The States of Jersey will start a legal challenge over the UK's ending of Low Value Consignment Relief, according to the economic development minister.

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The DREAM Act (Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors), a legal means of providing paperless illegal-immigrant youth access to higher education and financial aid, was signed into California law in October 2011.

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Forcing competitors to spend money on legal fees and extracting damages for infringement bring limited satisfaction compared to injunctive relief.

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Not only do the size of the local housing market, and the impact of the housing crisis, in each state affect the proportion of relief each state receives, but also the costs of mortgages, legal fees, and other such complexities affect the comparison.

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Moreover, bureaucratic legal structures force NGOs to designate aid projects as either long term development strategies or temporary humanitarian relief, when in reality the two categories frequently overlap.

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