51.   The county argued that a federal appeals court wrongly threw out preferences for minority hiring.

52.   The court threw out a lawsuit filed by the Brazilian National Bar Association arguing that the planned sale was unconstitutional.

53.   The courts threw out the suit.

54.   The court also threw out rules that required the Bells to provide entrants fair access to individual pieces of Bell equipment.

55.   The same court threw out the conviction of another defendant, Connie Cunningham, earlier this year.

56.   There also was the risk that a court would have thrown out the subpoenas as too broadly designed.

57.   This week, an appeals court threw out the charges on a technicality.

58.   Two lower federal courts threw out laws in Washington and New York states that made assisted suicide a crime.

59.   Valenti also said he believes the measure violates First Amendment free speech guarantees and predicted courts would quickly throw it out.