Consumers Union, which has never lost a disparagement case, maintained that it told the truth and that its tests were valid.
The dealers, who swarmed Capitol Hill to make their case, maintained that they simply facilitate car loans on behalf of financial institutions and therefore should be exempt.
The two defendants who have testified so far in the Hajjarian case maintained that they were not part of any official group and knew each other only through a neighborhood vigilante squad that had assigned itself the job of attacking those they believed to be un-Islamic.
Indeed, the petition in this case maintains that "[t]here are currently five different tests being used by the United States Courts of Appeals," Pet. for Cert.
Mr. Seidemann also gave some insight into the prosecution's case, maintaining that Mrs. Astor suffered from Alzheimer's disease and that Mr. Marshall and Mr. Morrissey were not master thieves, but rather "they left smoking guns all over the place".
But Ghiya's supporters, and others who have followed the case, maintain that it would be more unusual if the police had not physically coerced Ghiya's confession than if they had.
The N.C.A.A. is defending itself vigorously in the case, maintaining that it "has never licensed the use of current student-athlete names, images or likenesses to E.A.," which is also a defendant in the case.
(Whereas Western investigators have blamed the infections on poor sanitation, a Libyan doctor close to the case maintains that only children on the ward where the convicted nurses worked were infected, and that, when the Bulgarians left, the infections ceased, despite the fact that sanitary conditions, in all the wards, remain far from ideal).
It has been shown that access to energy stimulates economic activity in a virtuous cycles: communities with power enable children to study during the night hours with electrical lights, community can charge cell phones to stimulate their business activities, and households can in many cases maintain appliances that raise their standard of living.
As Yin (2009) maintains that case studies allow not only for the examination of particular complexities in a case but also enable researchers to gain insights into larger systematic issues an appropriate methodology for researchers who want to look at an issue using both close- and long-focus lenses.
