However the Judicial Services Association (JSA) of Sri Lanka defended the chief justice, praising her for "standing firm against any type of interference and influence".

BBC: Asia

The judge simply ruled that with no company seeking currently to actively drill in deepwater, that basically there -- without -- we did not -- in a sense, we lacked standing for a ruling because the type of activity that we were looking to ban was not happening.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

They had already done one standing up, sitting down and some kind of free-range chicken type thing.

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