First, Beijing contends that the special arbitral tribunal at The Hague, where the Philippines filed a memorial earlier this year, has no jurisdiction over the issue, since the UNCLOS does not accord it the mandate to address what are essentially sovereignty-related issues.
The National Coalition to Save Our Mall, which opposes the memorial's design and its placement between the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial, filed a lawsuit in October.
The shock was still apparent on the faces of Ms. Hart's friends and colleagues on Monday as they filed into the memorial service.
She said, "Register Memorial".
Fans filed past a makeshift memorial that had been set up outside the ticket windows.
Last week, the National Coalition to Save Our Mall, which filed suit against the memorial project last year, lost a bid to stop construction but promised to fight on despite support for the project from President Bush, Congress and veterans groups.
David Miller, in his official history of the Olympics, records that as people filed in for the memorial service, Greece's King Constantine - a member of the IOC - was accosted by a man.
The team eventually found dapper students in madras blazers and khaki pants filing out of Memorial Church, and tuxedoed seniors celebrating graduation.
The National September 11 Memorial and Museum filed court papers this week seeking to dismiss a federal lawsuit brought by a group of atheists who oppose the museum's decision to display the giant cross-shaped steel beam that became a site of daily prayer during the cleanup of ground zero.
The girl played in the front row of the concert hall as mourners filed in for an interfaith memorial service for the slain officers.
Lawyers for the Philippines have filed an initial request, called a memorial, that extends to 4,000 pages.
