1.   Nonconstitutional Regimes Almost every political system occasionally violates or ignores some principle in its constitution.

2.   ACCT charges that system violates the U.S. Constitution in a variety of ways by relinquishing sovereign powers to an international tribunal.

3.   Briones ruled last month that the current system violates the Americans with Disabilities Act.

4.   EUROPE OPENS NEW MICROSOFT INQUIRY The European Commission said it had begun an inquiry into Microsoft because of concerns that its .NET Passport system violated privacy rules.

5.   For that reason, wrote Isabelle Katz Pinzler, an acting assistant attorney general, the system violates the Voting Rights Act.

6.   Garbage haulers, who wanted the right to seek lower rates elsewhere, had argued that the system violated interstate commerce laws.

7.   He also concluded that the system violated federal civil rights laws, because black and Hispanic children are more likely than whites to be receiving a substandard education.

8.   He even contends that the current system violates the First Amendment rights of speech and association of candidates who cannot raise enough money to assert those rights.

9.   Home Depot argued that the dual-trial system violated its constitutional right to have a single jury decide all the issues.

10.   Russia and China oppose the proposed U.S. missile defense shield, saying the system would violate an arms-control regime built over three decades.