Shedding light on the discomfort felt even by the majority, the court ordered the U.S. government to pay the legal costs of the plaintiffs, something virtually unheard of when a litigant is on the winning end of a case.
The decision that Junior Bayode will not face a retrial for a schoolboy's murder at London's Victoria Station marks the end of a case which saw an unprecedented use of a law called joint enterprise.
It was an anticlimactic end to a case whose decision was so long delayed that some speculated the justices were deadlocked over how far to rein in what some see as an out-of-control patent process.
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"If you're sitting on the other end of a case where someone is paying your attorneys' fees and they're providing you with sufficient support to maintain the life you had before the divorce, and you hate the other person, you can just sit and ride out the process, " said Manhattan matrimonial lawyer Juan Luciano.
The DODO case is a high-end iPad case that looks like a book.
"Based on the preliminary investigation's results, a decision was taken to end the criminal case due to a lack of evidence of a crime, " the Committee said.
While the race for the title looks likely to be well contested, it is a different case at the other end of the table, where survival would be a huge achievement for promoted Exeter.
In a statement to the Scottish Parliament on the World's End case, Lord Advocate Elish Angiolini, Scotland's top prosecutor, said Crown evidence had established a circumstantial case against Sinclair.
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But regulators do need to examine on a case-by-case basis whether they will end up harming consumers.
So was it Moore who saw "Watchmen" end up in the courts for a case that risked scuppering its release?
If the justices decide they do not, the case would end without a high court ruling about marriage, although legal experts widely believe same-sex marriages would quickly resume in California.
Craig says that the shop talk among his fellow recruiters is that although they did fewer deals in 2012 than they had hoped, those deals that got done involved more high-end producers than was expected: a case of quality over quantity.
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He told BBC Radio Wales that there was a "real possibility" that every measles case could end up in hospital, in intensive care, or have a worse outcome.
In the end, however, this case offers a reminder to all lawyers: Know your audience.
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"Normal" refers to a range of functioning, and a good case can often be made that those at the lower end of the "normal" range have a disability.
In the end, the Supreme Court's decision in a case concerning investor lawsuits was not the landmark ruling many thought it would be.
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