The latest setback the Chagossians faced was a ruling by the European court of human rights, which held that because their claims had been settled "definitively" in the British courts, they had effectively renounced further claims that their expulsion from their homes had been unlawful.
"From here on, we face a giant ruling party," she said after the vote.
And if Google does end up facing a stricter ruling in Europe than in the United States, the issue of whether successful companies in the United States get a fair hearing in Brussels is likely to emerge once again.
While Apple was cleared by the DoJ to buy the patents ahead of the auction, Microsoft could face a similar ruling as the Novell situation since they already had a licensing agreement on the patents, just as they had on the Novell patents before they tried to buy them.
We faced a slower disaster: a corrupt ruling class, crumbling institutions, armed robberies, bad universities, despair.
SEOUL, South Korea — President Lee Myung-bak's ruling Grand National Party faced a growing crisis on Monday as prosecutors investigated an allegation from a whistle-blowing lawmaker that one of its former chairmen tried to buy votes in a party leadership race.
This is the first time that the ruling party has faced a real contest.
Amazon is facing a landmark court ruling in the US that could prise open its obscure tax structure in Luxembourg, after a high-stakes legal battle that has shed unprecedented light on the technology giant's labyrinthine tax affairs.
After the ruling Ms Silva faced an unpleasant choice.
WHEN General Motors and Chrysler were on the brink of collapse in 2009, Canada's ruling Conservatives faced an awkward choice: stick to free-market principles and watch the Canadian subsidiaries of the two American carmaking giants go under, or contribute Canadian taxpayers' dollars towards a bail-out of the parent companies.
