Perhaps the delay is due to overlapping issues between various post-trial motions and the request for injunction or perhaps there is more to it.

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Judge Wilken also denied the government's request for a further delay, and ordered it to forgo the traditional 30-day waiting period between making a decision and implementing it.

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That means that any European nation receiving an extradition request from the US, in similar circumstances, can provide the suspect with far less delay - certainly less than a decade.

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The American Civil Liberties Union said the bill includes "Patriot Act-like provisions" inserted at the request of House members after immigration provisions that contributed to the delay in the House were removed.

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