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By 2020, the government said it had compiled evidence that Live Nation had been violating the decree for years by doing exactly what it had promised not to do.

From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2024

Ryu granted the injunction in December after homeless advocates argued the city had been violating the law by clearing homeless encampments without offering shelter and improperly throwing out peoples’ belongings such as cellphones and medication.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 12, 2023

Morgan Securities had been violating rules that require firms to preserve written business communications when the broker was unable to produce records during the course of other investigations.

From Reuters • Dec. 17, 2021

District Judge Royce C. Lamberth called on the Justice Department to investigate whether the jail had been violating the civil rights of the dozens of prisoners charged in the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S.

From Washington Post • Nov. 5, 2021

When his Majesty took his seat, the officer informed him that we had been violating the city ordinance by feeding our horses on the streets.

From Twenty Years of Hus'ling by Denslow, W. W. (William Wallace)