'Lock This Down' That evening, Mr. Zissou sent out his urgent e-mail, declaring that the case rested on this instruction.
After nearly seven years of a troubled investigation, officials of the F.B.I. and the Justice Department declared that the case had been solved.
Atterbury's lawyer, Kevin Byers, who was romantically involved with Reynolds, opened the trial by declaring that the case was about "chronic pain treatment, propriety of it, the availability or unavailability of it in America".
Amanda Knox was en route to Seattle from Rome – a free woman whose conviction for murder had just been overturned – when David Thorne, the US ambassador to Italy, sent a cable to the State Department declaring that the case was officially over.
Declaring that the case "does not concern affairs which are the responsibility of the Central People's Government," the five justices said they were under no obligation to seek an opinion from Beijing before ruling.
In a letter to Unesco, dated 26 March 2015, the trustees declared that the case of the Elgin marbles did not fall within the scope of the United Nations' cultural organisation's role as safeguarder of endangered cultural heritage and thus they "decided respectfully to decline this request".
The verdict seemed to mirror the tortured, half-fulfilled political transition that began with Mr. Mubarak's ouster: At the same time that Judge Ahmed Rafaat pronounced Mr. Mubarak guilty as an accessory to the murder of protesters, he declared that the case included no evidence that Mr. Mubarak had ordered the killings.
Judge Wright dismissed the case on the merits by granting Mr. Clinton summary judgment, declaring that the case was "lacking in merit, a decision that would not have changed even had the president been truthful with respect to his relationship with Ms. Lewinsky".
One of the criminal judges delivered a judgment of almost poetic brevity, "reminding himself" of a point of law that, if not mentioned, could form the basis of a further challenge; declaring that the case had not been proved to the required standard; and then allowing the appeal.
