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The defendant, Abdel Ghani Meskini, 32, is seeking to block prosecutors from using a long statement they say he gave.

Lawyers for Arthur Andersen filed a motion late yesterday seeking to block prosecutors from using a federal grand jury to continue investigating the document destruction that led to the firm's indictment on a charge of obstruction of justice.

Italy's justice minister came under attack from the country's opposition, which accused him of misusing a new immunity law to block prosecutors from investigating tax fraud allegations against Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.

Among a series of pivotal decisions, Judge Johnson delivered a setback to the president's efforts to limit the scope of the investigation, ruling that he could not invoke executive privilege or lawyer-client privilege in trying to block prosecutors from questioning his aides.

The testimony was given in a hearing originally sought by Mr. Meskini and his lawyer to block prosecutors from using a lengthy statement Mr. Meskini gave to the Federal Bureau of Investigation after his arrest last Dec. 30 at his Brooklyn apartment.

Tribe lawyers obtained a court order blocking prosecutors from entering tribal land to serve witness subpoenas.

On Monday, judge John Grinsteiner ruled that the state lacked probable cause for the riot charge, blocking prosecutors from moving forward with the controversial prosecution.

The judge overseeing the Fort Hood shooting trial blocked prosecutors on Monday from using several witnesses and most evidence they had sought to explain the alleged motive behind the 2009 attack.

In a move that blocked prosecutors from discussing the statement that she gave the police in open court, Mr. Fusco waived his client's legal right to learn about evidence supporting the murder charge during the hearing.

The long-awaited decision overruled important elements of a ruling last October by Judge Brinkema, who had barred the use of the death penalty and blocked prosecutors from preventing evidence to a jury that might link Mr. Moussaoui to the Sept. 11 attacks.

Mr. Fischetti said late yesterday that he would ask to meet with Ms. Mauskopf and would urge her to block the prosecutors in her office from pursuing a fourth trial for Mr. Schwarz.