Employers found loopholes that enabled them to delay the board's administrative proceedings, sometimes for years.
But many defendants slip in and out of touch with reality -- or say they do -- and each new claim of delusion can stall legal proceedings, sometimes for years.
"As a securities lawyer, I've been involved in these administrative proceedings for many years and have been struck by the unfairness and lack of neutrality in the system," said Lewis D. Lowenfels, an expert in securities law in New York City.
The auto-parts company Delphi, once a unit of G.M. and now a supplier, has languished in bankruptcy proceedings for four years, twice as long as originally planned, for example.
One such man, who would not give his name because he said he was a member of a prominent Iranian Jewish family in Los Angeles, said he came to register last Tuesday and was immediately detained because his pending application for permanent residency had been held up in I.N.S. proceedings for five years.
It has a separate legal system from the Chinese mainland, and Mr Snowden's right of appeal could drag out any future extradition proceedings for several years.
What about the 16 minority women that they have been tied up in court proceedings for 16 years and the other material I describe?
I was myself in removal proceedings for seven years of my life, from 2000 to 2007, partly because my legal council was so overwhelmed with cases that he made egregious mistakes with my case.
We updated literature searches from our previous meta-analyses on ESAs (Bohlius et al, 2006a, 2006b, 2009a, 2009b) in Medline, Embase, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials and databases of conference proceedings for the years 2008 to January 2011 (for details, see Supplementary Webappendix Table 1).
She was embroiled in court proceedings for a year.
