His decision, culminating an eight-year-old lawsuit after numerous motions and appeals and finally a nine-month trial, had vast implications for the state.
The opposition leader John Agyekum Kufuor was declared the winner in Ghana's presidential runoff election by his rival late Friday, culminating an election to choose a successor to the longtime president, Jerry Rawlings.
Culminating an unexpectedly bitter 10-year legal brawl, the Supreme Court rejected a final appeal from the national lottery against an earlier ruling holding it liable for the unauthorized use of the classic Charlie Chaplin character in an advertising campaign.
At the time, May 29 , 1953 it was a magnificent achievement of human daring and endurance culminating an era of crossing oceans, penetrating continental interiors and reaching the ends of the earth.
In May, a major police sweep led to the indictment of 143 people in a $250 million drug conspiracy, culminating an 18-month investigation into a highly organized operation that the Brooklyn district attorney, Charles J. Hynes, said pervaded the projects and netted $50 million annually.
The widow of a New York City fire marshal has been indicted in his Dec. 2 shooting death in their Staten Island home, culminating an investigation that had been the talk of the community, a law enforcement official said on Thursday.
