One legal battle, the case of Korematsu v. United States, led to a Supreme Court ruling in 1944 that the evacuation and internment of Nisei was constitutional.
After a two-year legal battle, the case resulted in the court of appeal setting down guidelines for when the NHS must pay for specialist healthcare for those in care homes or in the community.
In the swirl of Iran's internal political battles, the case has drawn international scrutiny and could undo Iran's tentative overtures to the West.
Its executive team, led by William H. Gates, the chairman, is taking the long view, planning to battle the antitrust case in the courts through appeals for years, if necessary.
The judge also suggested that Napster might face an uphill battle as the case proceeded to trial.
In his testimony, Cardinal Pell acknowledged that although the church had fought a hard and technically correct legal battle in the case, John Ellis had been treated unfairly from a Christian perspective.
McCann insisted they should not have been forced to go through an 11-month battle, saying the case showed there was "no sign of any post-Leveson improvement" in press culture.
Prosecutors in Sweden pursuing Julian Assange over rape allegations have rejected a demand by his lawyers to hand over new evidence and withdraw the warrant for his arrest, setting the stage in two weeks' time for the first legal battle in the case since 2012.
In a double blow to Napster, a federal judge has decided not to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the recording industry against the company, and suggested in her ruling that it might face an uphill battle as the case proceeded to trial.
But I fear he was fighting a losing battle in the case of Friends With Benefits, in which he plays a designer at GQ in New York who enjoys a lot of violently athletic, no-strings, "no emotions" sex with his headhunter friend, Jamie (played by Mila Kunis, late of Black Swan) until, inevitably, they fall in love.
