Word: legality
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...competition. When a small regional airline started up in eastern Canada, Air Canada responded last fall with sharply reduced fares on some routes. When the Competition Bureau, a federal consumer watchdog, ordered Milton to stop price cutting on five of those routes, Air Canada hit back with a legal challenge questioning the bureau's constitutional power to unilaterally restrict fare changes. The case is winding through a Quebec court. Air Canada dived into hot water again in October, when a corporate official sent voice-mail messages about the airline's profit forecasts to select stock analysts. The stock plunged...
...vary, but exchanges typically generate revenue by charging suppliers to submit bids and taking commissions on closed transactions. That's how BizBuyer.com works. Launched in June 1999 and based in Santa Monica, Calif., BizBuyer boasts more than 20,000 qualified vendors in 34 products and services, including telecommunications, insurance, legal services and business consulting. Buyers pay nothing. BizBuyer charges vendors a commission of up to 10% of the value of the transaction, depending on the service. Since its launch, BizBuyer has processed more than 40,000 requests worth in excess of $200 million. "Not only do we save small businesses...
...Florida Supreme Court will decide whether it is legal for the counties to hand count their ballots and whether Harris is required to accept these counts...
...more than 25 lawsuits filed in the past week and a half scare you. The legal morass is shallower than it first appears. In essence there are just three continuing legal battles: the Republican attempts to stop all manual recounts from going forward, the Democratic attempts to get counties to hand count their ballots and to keep these recounts going, and the struggle of some Florida citizens to force a new election in Palm Beach County. The Palm Beach cases are moving slowly, but in the others there has been a clear winner, at least...
...crisis atmosphere, he gave off an aura of confidence that somehow the system would work--not in weeks but in days. As he earnestly told a Russian TV reporter one night, "This doesn't happen very often here in this country. It's not a question of legal maneuvering. And it ought not to be a question of politics. It's a question of whom did the voters want." The Russian walked off, nodding in agreement. Now Boies has to convince the courts and the court of public opinion...