High court deputy judge Seys Llewellyn QC ruled there was no legal authority that supported her case and gave judgment to the casino "in the sum of £1m, as claimed", plus interest.
Nobody objected to the appointment of Sir Wyn Lewis Williams, justice of the high court, deputy chairman of the Boundary Commission for Wales, president of the Pendyrus Male Voice Choir and a trustee for life of Tylorstown RFC in the Rhondda.
While Alex Salmond has his high impressive deputy in Nicola Sturgeon, and several talented ministers in Fiona Hyslop and Angela Constance, there is not much in reserve: The SNP has high profile women, so the party does promote talent, but it has no structures in place to allow this to be deep-rooted.
While the £894 asking price seems high, Steven Graves, deputy editor of Stuff.tv, told the BBC this was likely to change: "The thing you have to bear in mind is it is still in development and that people are buying into that development.
"It's Groundhog Day all over again," said Amy Laitinen, a former Obama administration adviser for higher education who now works as higher education deputy director for New America Foundation, a left-leaning think tank.
"Are you worried that you could end up with a situation where you get a much higher level of rent in inner London where land values are higher?" Richard Blakeway, deputy mayor for housing, said: "We're attracting investment through a very flexible programme which will deliver the maximum number of homes that are cheaper than the equivalent in the market.
The gunman — a bodyguard for a high-ranking deputy of Afghanistan's National Directorate of Security — was identified only as a 30-year-old named Aminullah.
Until then, Morgenthau's high profile deputies — the future Governor Eliot Spitzer, the future novelist Linda Fairstein — had all forgone opportunities to take on their former boss.
Stephen Goldsmith, a high-profile deputy to Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg who came under fire for the city's poor response to a crippling blizzard in December, announced on Thursday that he would leave his position after just 14 months in office.
► "President Barack Obama has nominated engineer Richard Buckius, [NSF's current] chief operating officer, to fill the agency's second highest position: deputy director," David Malakoff wrote on Wednesday at ScienceInsider.
