In any event, the issue, already in litigation for eight years, must still slug its way further through the legal morass.
"The confusion is that most business people worry about a stadium on the West Side in that it raises political issues that could result in litigation that would derail the effort".
At issue in the litigation is the way in which banks process customer transactions.
"The government is wrong," the chief justice wrote, "that the only thing actually at issue in this litigation is conduct" and not speech protected by the First Amendment.
An important issue in the litigation lay in whether the "natural and ordinary meaning" of the language of the Basic Law should be paramount, most notably in interpreting the term "ordinarily resident," or whether a broader statutory context should be considered.
But Celeste Koeleveld, a senior lawyer for the city, defended the city's actions, saying that Order 22 was not an issue in the litigation and that the city believed the plaintiffs knew about it anyway.
But the central issue in grease litigation remains the same, he told me: the national renderers like Dar Pro are not actually concerned with trying to stop grease theft, which he insists has a far smaller effect on their bottom line than they claim.
As part of the effort, officials from the city's Education Department and the teachers' union toured some of the shared buildings at issue in the litigation, one official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity because the negotiations are intended to be private.
Mr. Tucker said that unlike testimony in trials, "the questions posed in a deposition can be without any foundation whatsoever, can be based on hearsay or speculation, can be confusing, can be irrelevant to the matter at issue in the litigation, and can be argumentative".
