"His actions were not done by reason of inadvertence or a good faith error of judgment, " he ruled.

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There is no reason to think that their judgment was based on anything other than the merits of the case.

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Another reason was that, thanks to a Supreme Court judgment that led to the setting up of a referendum commission, the same amount of money had to be spent arguing both for and against the Amsterdam treaty.

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