In early May, Nigeria's high court ruled that Mr Obasanjo's daughter, a senator, must face charges in a corruption case that has drawn public interest as much because of its political ramifications as the gravity of the allegations.
Mr. Hazare has sometimes been dismissed as little more than a figurehead, with his advisers making the crucial decisions, yet he is clearly the attraction needed to draw public interest.
There is a good case for a tightly drawn public interest exemption that allows sources to be kept confidential for genuine investigative journalism dealing with matters of genuine public interest.
But since the Enron bankruptcy proceedings drew public attention to accounting practices, public interest groups and critics of free trade have begun to worry that the services pact may hamper efforts to curb abuses.
Several lawyers who practice in the Family Courts said they had generally been opened only for the rare cases that drew wide public interest.
The agreement barred anyone involved in the case from making public comments about a dispute that had drawn vast public interest.
Elections draw little public interest now that they are essentially noncompetitive, and leaders of the governing party fear a low turnout.
The issue of the death penalty and how it is imposed has drawn heightened public interest with the execution of Gary Graham in Texas.
Mr. Spitzer has previously said that he planned to use legal action or the threat of legal action to force greater industry disclosure of clinical trial findings, an issue that has drawn intense public interest.
How is it that you came to conclusion A, when the obvious conclusion is conclusion B?' " The tensions are compounded in cases that draw wide public interest, like the Tyco and Astor cases and the trial of Mr. Ghailani, who faced conspiracy and murder charges stemming from the 1998 bombing of two American Embassies in East Africa.
Torres also noted that Hacking Mexico was one of the first businesses in Mexico to provide training in cybersecurity, an area he said has drawn increasing public interest due to the violence and crime that has plagued the country in recent years in the context of multiple rivalries between different criminal groups and a much-questioned government offensive against them that made things worse.
