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"This appears to be a precedent-setting case," Mr. Walters said.

It's a precedent-setting case," said Jeffrey N. Gibbs, a lawyer in Washington who specializes in food and drug law.

The verdict was a blow to the office of Robert T. Johnson, the Bronx district attorney, in what had been viewed as a precedent-setting case.

"I always felt ImClone would be a precedent-setting case," said Robert Toth Jr., senior portfolio manager at EGM Capital in San Francisco.

"We kind of had everything going for us on this case and really it required it because this was a precedent-setting case".

Although the judge found in favour of the bank, this was not a precedent-setting case because it was heard in a county court.

Paul was there at the start, always played hard, and won precedent-setting cases in every decade.

But in potentially precedent-setting cases, such as those of Mr Kadi and al Barakaat, its reaction, expected by the summer, is much harder to predict.

Ms. Berg, of Equality Now, said that the group helped bring the Georgia lawsuit because it was looking for precedent-setting cases involving child sex tourism overseas.

If made law, the act would require a "constitutional advocate" to be introduced into the opaque court process, so the government could be challenged on privacy grounds in significant or precedent-setting cases.

Since then, his name has cropped up in a succession of precedent-setting cases, usually resulting in a bloody nose for one governing body or another.