The inquiry, ordered by then prime minister, Gordon Brown, began in 2009 and completed hearings in February 2011.
The project, which other town commissions have conditionally approved, is before the Planning and Zoning Commission, which should complete public hearings within weeks.
The former N.F.L. commissioner Paul Tagliabue plans to complete all hearings in the New Orleans Saints bounty inquiry by Dec. 4 and make a ruling shortly after.
State legislators have convened a special committee -- complete with hearings and threats of subpoenas to haul Alliance executives here to explain themselves.
Yet Ms. Browner said it was possible that the Senate could at least complete its hearings on the bill by the time the international climate talks open on Dec. 7.
Mr. Levy, the lawyer from the Bronx Defenders, said: "There was always an expectation in the back of his head: 'Yeah, this is how things go.' " In spring 2012, having had the chance to conduct no trials and complete no hearings, Cleary Gottlieb and the Bronx Defenders decided to phase out the marijuana arrest project.
But to a reporter sitting 25 feet away, for the five hours it took to complete preliminary hearings against Saddam Hussein and 11 others who terrorized Iraq, they seemed to have shrunk, pressing home the question: How could these utterly unremarkable men, forgettable in any other context, have so tyrannized their 25 million countrymen that they remained unchallenged for 35 years?
Another theme has emerged at the pre-trial military commission proceedings being conducted this week here at the US Naval Base in Guantánamo in the case of Omar Khadr - an unseemly rush to complete the hearings so that those attending can get back to the US mainland by the weekend.
After hearing testimony from 31 witnesses, the court completed its hearings on 20 March.
The intelligence agency confirmed the programme, but said it was lawful and essential.The latest news came as the Senate Judiciary Committee completed its hearings on the NSA's activities.
