"Pleadings are full of hyperbolic and untrue statements that serve as a starting point.
At a minimum, someone ought to have suspected that these pleadings were not pro bono.
Its boss, Jamie Dimon, said: "The conduct described in the government's pleadings is a great disappointment to us.
Special pleadings are not acceptable in the "No Excuse" initiative being run here in Dorset, a largely rural county on Britain's south coast.
In contrast, in countries with a civil-law tradition written pleadings are only preparatory to the main hearing in open court, where allegations are clarified and proofs offered.
"The pleadings are extremely daunting," said Keith S. Franz, with Azrael, Gann & Franz, a law firm in Baltimore that represents a dozen families of Pentagon victims.
"We won't be filing any additional pleadings, is my understanding, unless we're asked to by the court," said W. Dexter Douglass, one of Vice President Al Gore's lawyers.
They argue that the laws demean gay couples, deprive them of essential benefits and violate their "fundamental right" to marry.The pleadings are sprinkled with accounts of gay Americans being denied recognition as married couples.
Missing from Bettison's pleadings is that while Wright accepted Taylor's findings in public, within the force's corridors efforts were redoubled to avoid blame at the first inquest.
So, after the pleadings are filed, the arbitrators selected and discovery completed, the arbitration hearings (having been scheduled months before) will commence.
