Ample cause exists for skepticism.
The city, which faces a huge financial liability in the lawsuit, has ample reason to play down the claims of firefighters, police officers, construction workers and others who say they became ill because they were not given proper breathing equipment during the nine-month rescue and recovery operation at ground zero.
Mr. Tankleff contends there are ample grounds and voiced hope that his lawsuit would yield evidence to reopen the criminal case.
But over hundreds of pages, the trustee lays out in the lawsuit what he argues is ample evidence that Mr. Wilpon and Mr. Katz "consciously disregarded" suspicions about Mr. Madoff's operation.
Indeed, a company's failure to embrace these standards will provide ample and powerful ammunition for use in lawsuits against that company if it is a victim of a cyber attack that results in loss (e.g. misappropriation of customer information, business disruption, loss to third parties).
Beth Haroules and Robert Cohen, two of the lawyers who brought the lawsuit, said the city had already had ample time.
Lawyers representing the Board of Education and Chancellor Levy, who also is a defendant in the lawsuit, said the opposition group had had ample opportunity to get its views out.
She was especially troubled by the government's inability to define terms like "substantially supported" and "associated forces," despite ample opportunity to do so during the course of the lawsuit.
"The Board knew or should have known of these provisions and had ample opportunity to work out a satisfactory arrangement to avoid default," the lawsuit alleges.
"Specific intent to use force, we believe there was ample evidence on that," said Robert L. Conason, a lawyer representing Mr. Diallo's parents in their civil lawsuit.
