That wrinkle in the case makes the United States v. Scarfo the latest battleground in a growing struggle to determine the proper balance between the government's ability to conduct surveillance and a citizen's right to privacy.
Like Kubrick's prescient "2001: A Space Odyssey," which depicted a chillingly subdued power struggle between the computer and the humans aboard a spacecraft, Mr. Lustbader's work is similarly troubled by the growing conflict between technology and spirituality.
In the 17th century there was also increasing unrest among the Zaporozhian Cossacks of the Dnieper downstream of Kiev and an ever-growing struggle between them and the Polish crown.
The court's decision is the latest development in a growing power struggle between factions loyal to Mr Basescu and supporters of the country's prime minister, Victor Ponta.
Yet the growing power struggle between pro-Moscow Chechens threatens this withdrawal and erratic improvements to daily life, such as some better roads, running water and a drop in the number of abductions.
The complexities have become particularly apparent in recent days, with the announcement by some corporations that they were moving employees out of New York, and with the growing signs of struggle between family members of victims and business leaders about how much of the site should be turned into a memorial.
And from that day forward you had the beginnings of a growing Titanic constitutional political struggle between president and Congress — they are not of the same party, to say the least — that will result in Andrew Johnson's impeachment.
Each case grows out of a struggle between left and right where politics have pushed the law: between a quest for universal coverage and the defense of big health care providers; between an emphasis on openness and hostility toward immigrants; and between a promise of access to the voting booth made nearly 50 years ago and the unyielding opposition to keeping that promise.
In part, the math wars have grown out of a struggle between professional mathematicians, who say too many American students never master basic math skills, and math educators, who say children who construct their own problem-solving strategies retain their math skills better than those who just memorize the algorithm that produces the correct answer.
Over recent years, utilities supplying the residential electricity sector have struggled with a growing discrepancy between revenues and costs.
