Cuban officials have said there are no plans to parade the boy when he returns, and few people doubt the case will end with Elian living anywhere but in Cuba.
But he doubted the case would have far-reaching consequences, in part because agents already represent both buyer and seller in many cases and the ruling would simply expand that relationship to others. .
In Britain, doubts about the case against him have been long, and widely, aired.
More doubts about the case arose in the last four years as Mr. Tankleff's investigator, Jay Salpeter, turned up new witnesses.
Lu Ya-li, a political scientist at National Taiwan University, said he doubted that the case would help the party.
Who amongst us could doubt that the case would have been handled differently, had the roles been reversed?
It's no doubt the case that the internet enslaves us, numbs us, increases our solitude, as he has often declared and uses Purity to argue at length.
This is no doubt the case with the restaurant's design, too, but this time the owners are not as interested in historical re-enactment.
As much as it would be a mistake to gauge the popular mood through the decisions of AFA's executive committee, it is no doubt the case that the issue strikes a chord here.
"The central government's attitude is both clear and firm: there is no doubt the case will be thoroughly investigated," the People's Daily newspaper wrote on Monday, nearly five days after the disaster.
