Last week, the government lost its case against two managers at Bear Stearns, the first investment bank to fail last year.

VOA: special.2009.11.20

The International Criminal Court has yet to complete its first case involving any crime.

VOA: special.2010.06.21

"That is the case today. And it is the first time any president has acted outside the June 1 time frame,".

VOA: standard.2009.04.15

Mr.Taylor is the first witness in his defense and has spent much of the last 13 weeks dismissing the prosecution case against him as a series of lies.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

(Spiegler was among a handful of people who helped create the field.) In their first case, the lawyers representing the East German government, recovered several portraits owned by one of the country's museums.

VOA: standard.2010.07.26

"What I think some of these terrorist group may have underestimated is that we in the west or in Russia,in this case, are perhaps not quite as soft as they might have first believed."

VOA: standard.2010.03.30