21.   If the injunction is granted, analysts and antitrust lawyers expect the companies to scrap their plans to merge.

22.   If the judge granted the injunction, the system would revert to the collective bargaining agreement that expired a year ago.

23.   If the injunction is granted and the players are poised to return to work, the owners could lock them out and proceed with their Replacement Season.

24.   If the judge grants the injunction, the union would recommend that its members return to work.

25.   In granting the injunction, he held that opponents were likely to prove that it violated the constitutional rights of women and minorities.

26.   Judge David Phares granted the injunction.

27.   Judge Patrick D. McAnany said in his ruling that Sprint could suffer irreparable harm if the injunction against Martin J. Kaplan were not granted.

28.   Rodriguez commented after Federal Judge Susana Cordoba granted an injunction sought by opposition congressmen who argued that a presidential decree authorizing the sale was unconstitutional.

29.   Stemberg said the companies will abandon the transaction if Hogan grants the injunction.

30.   The administration has appealed, but an appeals court has refused to grant an injunction.