John Wesley Black and Constance Jean Courtney could spend a minimum of one year in prison per illegal dog fighting charge, and are linked to two dog fighting allegations.

His healing ministry was successful, but he spent much of 1895 in court fighting allegations that he was practicing medicine without a license.

A Prague court has vindicated a former member of Parliament who was fighting allegations that he had collaborated with the secret police during the Communist era.

Lance Armstrong employed English law firm Schillings to help him fight allegations of doping by using English libel law.

He vowed last month at a news conference in Rome to regain control of MGM even as he fought allegations of tax evasion and fraud in Italy.

Mikimoto had to constantly fight allegations that his pearls were only "imitations" of real pearls, despite scientific reports to the contrary.

Mayor Arrington has been fighting allegations of taking bribes since 1984.

Mr. Khodorkovsky is in prison fighting separate allegations of tax evasion, fraud and embezzlement.

Stanley Ho has for many years fought allegations that organized-crime triads are involved in his Macao casinos.

Even President Jacques Chirac is fighting allegations that he masterminded a vast illicit fund-raising scheme when he was mayor of Paris.