In February, Disney sued the city, hoping to force it to abandon the decision permitting the project.
Because Belize is a Commonwealth country, the case was heard by the Privy Council in London, which voted by a majority of three to two to permit the project.
Boxer said she would continue her efforts to oppose the Keystone XL pipeline, though the State Department has yet to decide whether to permit the project, which would bring crude from Canadian oil sands fields to U.S. refineries in the Gulf of Mexico.
Reacting online to the prosecution, some Chinese citizens questioned why government officials were not held responsible for their decision to permit the project without soliciting public input, while others said the defendants had acted excessively.
The group's president, William J. Hattrick Jr., a former mayor of the Village of Southampton, criticized the Southampton town and village governments for permitting the project, which he has referred to as "a massive, unneeded facility at a junction deemed critically clogged" by the State Transportation Department.
"We had to permit the project, and we had to finance the project.
The judge over seeing the case, James A. Boasberg of United States District Court, said this week that he will rule no later than Sept. 9 on a request by the Standing Rock Sioux to stop construction and reconsider permits the project has received.
Based on the experience gained from this project, the research team found it important to allow enough time and provide enough resources to permit the project to evolve at an unhurried pace.
118 women (29%) did not permit the project to collect data from registers, and a mixture of questionnaire and register data was therefore used for some variables (maternal weight and length before pregnancy, weight gain during pregnancy, diabetes, hypertensive disorders, preeclampsia, birth weight and sex of the child).
