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.
How did what could be seen as a relatively garden-variety kickback scheme (albeit one allegedly conducted from the executive suite of a prestigious medical institution) end up as a RICO case in which the victim itself is named as the RICO enterprise?
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Even if the stipulated cuts in future spending somehow manage to stick, they will be so modest that it may end up being a case of winning a battle while losing the war against runaway federal spending.
"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.
In the end, Bruce makes a case for phasing in a well-designed Value-Added Tax, both to help reduce the deficit and in the name of economic efficiency.
But in the end, he made a great case for why the nVidia of today and company we thought we knew a year ago are vastly different.
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.
It should be embarrassing to the administration that it rigorously pursues a WTO case to end an economic injustice committed by another country that we gleefully inflict upon ourselves.
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Most likely, he said, the case will end in a monetary settlement in which H-P receives some compensation from Oracle, effectively recouping some of the money it paid Mr. Hurd when he left H-P.
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.
"We are aiming at reaching a formal agreement in the second half of July, taking into account national parliamentary procedure, allowing for a first disbursement of 30 billion euros by the end of the month to be mobilized as a contingency in case of urgent needs in the Spanish banking system, " Juncker said in a statement to reporters after the meeting.
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Hopefully it is just a simple case of realization that there is a light at the end of the tunnel.
In the end, however, this case offers a reminder to all lawyers: Know your audience.
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"I've instructed US trade representative Bob Zoellick to inform European officials in his September meeting that we think these (Airbus) subsidies are unfair and that he should pursue all options to end these subsidies, including bringing a WTO case, if need be, " he said.
In the end, we got us a fairly simple case of Tomsha-Miguel writing a phony-baloney letter from a make-believe congressional aide to herself, and then sending this fantasy correspondence to her unsuspecting client in a oddball attempt to convince him that she had resolved the IRS problem.
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But that may not be the end of this case, in which a coalition of regulators, labor-union pension funds, drug wholesalers and retailers like CVS and Rite-Aid accuse pharmaceuticals manufacturers of illegally stifling competition by paying generic drug manufacturers not to mount legal attacks on their patents.
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"It is unclear as yet whether this (death) and a case in Scotland at the end of July are linked to the outbreak in Europe, but the HPA will continue to monitor the situation, " it added.
"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.
But Hollywood is terrified that if it drops or loses the case, it could end up with a family of mutated films.
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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