If there were protests, they could not be seen or heard from the Peace Arch, a monument at the heart of adjoining state and provincial parks the border between Blaine, Wash., and Surrey, British Columbia.
The article also misstated the year in which Judge Roberts filed a brief with the Supreme Court arguing, successfully, that a century-old antidiscrimination statute could not be used to quash protests at abortion clinics.
The summer — high season for cockroaches and bottom-of-the-barrel stories in the Italian news media — was upon the land, and the story could not be squelched, no matter how many entomologists protested.
Some reviewers protested that racing could not be as crooked as depicted in the Francis novels, but real life (as in the case of the Shergar kidnapping) came in to prove how realistic his stories were.
Mr. Braun, an organizer, said that the protest could not be judged a success.
Peaceful protests could not be considered a danger, it added, and full security measures would be in place.
The video she took of the protest could not be retrieved from her damaged cellphone despite the efforts of technicians in two court hearings, she said.
Mr. Maduro later raised the death toll to seven, but the number of deaths related to the protests could not be independently confirmed.
The Iranian police were behaving so strangely, and failing to come to the assistance of the British diplomats, that they could not be sure how the whole protest was intended to end, he said.
The case, he wrote, "raises a host of complex constitutional issues"; the notion that the government's authority could include "the regulation of a person's decision not to purchase a product" was new to the federal courts, the judge concluded, and so the state's protest could not be dismissed outright.
