Citi, like most of its big competitors, also faces an array of legal claims from Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and other investors who say that the bank sold them securities backed by faulty mortgage loans.
These auditor deliberations form the more forensic part of the backdrop to an election campaign which also features a venomous array of claims and counter claims about corruption, cronyism and covert "Islamisation" with, it often appears, everyone accusing everyone else of racial bias.
More often the public is benumbed by an unfathomable depth of detail and a perplexing array of claims.
Anyone trying to make sense of the escalating tensions over Tehran's nuclear ambitions is faced with a bewildering array of claims and counter-claims, none of which would it be wise to take at face value.
The plaintiffs had filed an array of First Amendment claims, asserting that the town's decision to abolish its police department last year was a retaliatory gesture for the former employees' speaking out on matters of public concern, including issues of public safety and waste of public money.
In fact, the allegation about the executive makes up a small part of a much broader array of claims about what she says was her improper removal from a job atop one of the more commercially successful book publishing operations.
During argument of the case in November, lawyers for the government said that to allow the kind of compensation that the pilot, Stanmore C. Cooper, was seeking would expose the government to a much broader array of claims than Congress ever intended.
The agency has gone after sellers of gloves, inhalers, masks, shampoos, herbal extracts, air fresheners and an array of vitamins that make claims about fighting swine flu.
She knew the answer, but she wanted to make clear that if Hobby Lobby wins, other employers could make an array of similar religious-liberty claims.
