Lincoln County residents had been unfairly excluded from the original 1990 law.

Under the current system, companies whose products are unfairly excluded from foreign markets must go through a long, complex procedure.

But no state could reasonably claim that it had been unfairly excluded.

But if anyone objected, or felt unfairly excluded, they did not make much of a fuss.

An appeals procedure to local committees provides for those who believe they may have been unfairly excluded.

More rarely, chimerism is one such instance where the lack of a genetic match may unfairly exclude a suspect.

It unfairly excludes the unemployed, the self-employed and low-skilled workers.

But that led to a different kind of backlash: many middle-class parents, who prize their schools' independence and feared they would be unfairly excluded, complained.

The American Legion says it opposes any such restrictions on the ground that people would be unfairly excluded.