They say the conditions also violate the three Chinese-American agreements that are the basis for bilateral relations.

In 1999, a federal court of appeals ruled that conditions intended to prevent a prisoner from sleeping would violate the Constitution.

"And the conditions described would seemingly violate the warranty of habitability."

These conditions violate women's human rights and have devastating personal and social effects.

He claimed in the suit that the conditions violate the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment.

These anticompetitive conditions clearly violate the principles underpinning our antitrust laws and cry out for corrective action.

Tutwiler was overcrowded in 2003, when a judge declared that its conditions violated the U.S. Constitution.

Mr. Noriega's lawyers will then have a chance to argue that the conditions there violate the Geneva Conventions.

That condition would have violated Northeast's operating license, and Federal law requires prompt reporting of such violations.

It also said the conditions in which they were held sometimes violated the Geneva Conventions.