And while it's confusing, it's worth noting that this court proceeding - which was administrative in nature - is separate from criminal proceedings which were initiated by federal prosecutors against Neymar last year.
He did not make a sound during the court proceeding, which lasted about one minute.
The banks have also initiated an Article 78 proceeding, which is pending.
The proceeding, which was standing-room-only on opening day, attracted scores of people representing multiple sides in the dispute.
The decision in the condemnation proceeding, which is before Supreme Court Justice Edward G. McCabe, is expected in several weeks.
Court commissioner Barry Phillips ordered Heaggan-Brown to go to trial during the proceeding, which lasted less than five minutes.
Our action must, therefore dispose of the case, not merely of the appellate proceeding which brought it here.
She repeatedly said she would have been found "not guilty" at trial, but that she couldn't wait for the proceeding, which could have been years in coming.
Morgan Tsvangirai, who leads the opposition Movement for Democratic Change, attended the opening of the proceeding, which had been delayed for 18 months by government challenges.
There remained a divorce proceeding, which occasioned the revelation by Giuliani's lawyer that the Mayor had been rendered temporarily impotent by his cancer treatment.
A phalanx of uniformed marshals formed a human wall between them and the spectators throughout the proceeding, which lasted about 15 minutes.
