They say the agreement violates the Constitution by depriving them of compensation from last year and requiring them to leave the firm.

The agreement violates salary cap rules, the league said.

The inspector general, Gordon S. Heddell, said the agreement did not violate federal laws or regulations.

The commission brought charges against the companies last March and a federal judge declared last month in a private lawsuit that the agreement violated antitrust laws.

The two letter writers agreed from the start not to meet, an agreement violated only once in an absurdly comic accident.

The appellate court found that in California, at least, noncompete agreements violate "public policy" and are therefore illegal.

Privacy advocates said the agreement violated civil rights, but the United States said the information helped identify the patterns of suspicious travelers.

"The agreement had to be with the United Nations and could not violate the treaties."

The message said those agreements violated the terms of the pilots' contract by substituting other airlines' aircraft to fly United routes.

Wouldn't such an agreement violate journalistic ethics?