Early in the 2000s, SMI shareholder Francis Ferko filed a lawsuit against NASCAR, saying that it failed to come through on a " promise " to give Texas a second date.

Others: John Browne, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Antonio Vivaldi, Charles Villiers Stanford, Charles Gounod, Krzysztof Penderecki, Francis Poulenc, Giovanni Felice Sances, Alessandro Scarlatti ( 1724 ), Domenico Scarlatti ( 1715 ), Pedro de Escobar, František Tůma, Vladimir Martynov, Arvo Pärt, Josef Rheinberger, Franz Schubert, Giuseppe Verdi, Pasquale Cafaro, Zoltán Kodály, Trond Kverno ( 1991 ), Pawel Lukaszewski ( 1994 ), Frank Ferko ( 1999 ), Salvador Brotons ( 2000 ), Bruno Coulais ( 2005 ), the black metal band Anorexia Nervosa, the symphonic metal band Epica on the album The Classical Conspiracy, and Karl Jenkins.

The North Carolina Speedway in Rockingham, North Carolina was also sold to Smith as a result of the Ferko lawsuit with the track's one remaining date also being handed over to Texas.

Until the Ferko lawsuit settlement took effect, the race was considered the third leg of the grand slam, and was once part of the Winston Million.

For more information about the Grand Slam race which had the same name from 1950 through 2004 and removed as part of the Ferko lawsuit, see Mountain Dew Southern 500.

In 2005, as part of the settlement of the Ferko lawsuit and as part of a schedule realignment, the " Rebel " returned to its classic Confederate Memorial Day weekend date, and raised back to 500 miles.

The race was acquired as a result of the Ferko lawsuit, which forced NASCAR to relinquish the sport's fourth major, the Mountain Dew Southern 500 and in the process end its Grand Slam, as the Southern 500 was one of the four races that made it up.

This race has been derisively referred to as the Francis Ferko 500, mostly by traditionalist fans upset by the demise of the Southern 500.

The race, from 1970 until the demise of the Grand Slam as a result of the Ferko lawsuit, was known as the second leg of the sport's Grand Slam.

Members of the band include: Kevin Stevens, Eva Moon, Mike Gordon, Sue Niemann and Ferko Saxmanov.

Mayor William B. Hartsfield filed suit for divorce from his wife, Pearl Williams Hartsfield, in Fulton Superior Court Friday.

The suit was filed later in the day in Common Pleas Court 7 against the Hughes company and two bonding firms.

In 1866, these dissenters filed a suit in the Bombay High Court against Hasan Ali Shah, claiming that the Khojas had been Sunni Muslims from the very beginning.

Bosnia and Herzegovina filed a suit against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ( today Serbia ) before the International Court of Justice for aggression and genocide during the Bosnian War which was dismissed and Serbia was found innocent.

Late in 1971, BJU filed suit to prevent the IRS from taking its tax exemption, but in 1974, in Bob Jones University v. Simon, the U. S. Supreme Court ruled that the university did not have standing to sue until the IRS actually assessed taxes.

After having a child, she filed a paternity suit against him in 1943.

In late 1993, a group of Christian Scientists filed suit against the Board of Directors, alleging a willful disregard for the Manual of the Mother Church in its financial dealings.

It is not like class actions in the United Statesit only applies to parties who have already filed suit and does not allow a claim to be brought in the name of an unknown group of claimants.

In 1984, the Sandinista government filed a suit in the International Court of Justice ( ICJ ) against the United States ( Nicaragua v. United States ), which resulted in a 1986 judgment against the United States.

In February 1969, Day filed suit against Rosenthal and won the then-largest civil judgment ( over $ 20 million ) in the state of California.

In April 1979, he filed a suit to set aside the $ 6 million settlement with Day and recover damages from everybody involved in agreeing to the payment supposedly without his permission.

Immediately after the cancellation was announced, both EDF and the DDT manufacturers filed suit against the EPA, with the industry seeking to overturn the ban, and EDF seeking a comprehensive ban.

In April 2006, Margaret Witt, a major in the United States Air Force who was being investigated for homosexuality filed suit in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington seeking declaratory and injunctive relief on the grounds that DADT violates substantive due process, the Equal Protection Clause, and procedural due process.

In September, 2008, the three Santo Daime churches filed suit in federal court to gain legal status to import DMT-containing ayahuasca tea.

Brockovich and Masry filed suit against the Beverly Hills Unified School District in 2003, in which the district was accused of harming the health and safety of its students by allowing a contractor to operate a cluster of oil wells on campus.

In 1997, the state filed suit to establish its jurisdiction, leading New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani to remark dramatically that his father, an Italian who immigrated through Ellis Island, never intended to go to New Jersey.

When CBC was denied a new licensing agreement with MLBAM ( they had acquired the rights from the baseball players ' association ) for its fantasy baseball game, CBC filed suit.

When Schulberg asked him to cooperate, Cukor filed suit.

Donna Michelle, Marilyn Cole, Lillian Müller, Shannon Tweed, Brande Roderick, Barbi Benton, Karen Christy, Sondra Theodore, and Carrie Leigh — who filed a $ 35 million palimony suit against him — were a few of his many lovers.

On December 21, 2006, the San Francisco Bay Guardian and nonprofit Media Alliance filed suit to make the details of Reilly's lawsuit — and MediaNews and the Chronicle's response — public.

On August 30, 2007, a group of JPL employees filed suit in federal court against NASA, Caltech, and the Department of Commerce, claiming their Constitutional rights were being violated by new, overly invasive background investigations.

In yet another set of related cases, in September 2003, the RIAA ( trade association of the music industry ) filed suit in civil court against several private individuals who had shared large numbers of files with Kazaa ; most of these suits were settled with monetary payments averaging $ 3, 000.

The Marlborough Gallery filed suit against the Schwitters estate in 1996, after confirming Ernst Schwitters ' desire to have Mr. Lloyd continue to administer the estate in his will.

The Justice Department began an antitrust investigation in 1989, and in 1991 filed an antitrust suit against MIT, the eight Ivy League colleges, and eleven other institutions for allegedly engaging in price-fixing in their annual " Overlap Meetings ", which were held to prevent bidding wars over promising prospective students from consuming funds for need-based scholarships.

On June 11, 2008, the band and manager Burt Stein filed suit against each other.

This Court's judgment was filed in the District Court on July 18, 1957.

Du Pont's counterproposal was filed on May 14, 1958.

Since April 15, 1962, is on Sunday your return for the calendar year 1961 will be timely filed if it is filed on or before Monday, April 16, 1962.

Suppose John Jones, who, for 1960, filed on the basis of a calendar year, died June 20, 1961.

Your application must include the following information: ( 1 ) your reasons for requesting an extension, ( 2 ) whether you filed timely income tax returns for the 3 preceding years, and ( 3 ) whether you were required to file an estimated return for the year, and if so whether you did file and have paid the estimated tax payments on or before the due dates.

Revenue Ruling 54-17 provides that if the corporation against which a tax was assessed has since been liquidated by merger with a successor corporation, a claim for refund should be filed by the successor in the name and on behalf of the corporation which paid the tax, followed by the name of the successor corporation.

that on the immediate horizon, if further large-scale ( relatively speaking ) desegregation comes, it will result from court orders on suits filed in several Middle-South states.

The complaint on which the warrant was issued was filed by Leo Blaber, an attorney for the association.

After an appeal is heard, the " mandate " is a formal notice of a decision by a court of appeal ; this notice is transmitted to the trial court and, when filed by the clerk of the trial court, constitutes the final judgment on the case, unless the appeal court has directed further proceedings in the trial court.

In the Georgacarakos v. Watts case Peter N. Georgacarakos filed a pro se civil-rights complaint in the United States District Court for the District of Colorado against 19 prison officials for " interference with the free exercise of his Ásatrú religion " and " discrimination on the basis of his being Ásatrú ".

BHRA successfully filed and received designation for the tunnel on the National Register of Historic Places.

Bíró filed a British patent on 15 June 1938.

However, in the case of a creditor's petition, the Statement of Affairs will rarely be filed on the same day the court order is made.

Cameroon also faces a complaint filed with the African Commission on Human Rights by the Southern Cameroons National Council ( SCNC ) and the Southern Cameroons Peoples Organisation ( SCAPO ) against the Government of the Republic of Cameroon, in which the complainants allege that the Republic of Cameroon is illegally occupying the territory of Southern Cameroons.

She married British bartender turned Los Angeles bar owner Jeremy Thomas on March 20, 1994, and filed for divorce less than two months later.

Rumours abound of large wild cats such as cougars roaming wild on the moor, but little evidence has been forthcoming and until anything more substantial is available these reports should be filed under the general heading of cryptozoology.

The government filed an appeal with the Ninth Circuit on November 23, but made no attempt to have the trial court's ruling stayed pending the outcome.

Most such stories on Northcutt's Darwin Awards site are filed in the Personal Accounts section.

Arthur agreed to cooperate, and filed for divorce in America on the grounds of desertion, which was granted 9 May 1901.

Criminal charges of conspiracy were filed against Miller's husband, brother, and two others ; but were later dropped on her request to the prosecuting attorney.