The judgment by the Dutch supreme court is the final decision in a protracted claim brought by relatives of three Muslim men who were expelled by Dutch soldiers from a United Nations compound during the Balkans conflict, then killed by Bosnian Serb forces.
The surprise deal reached between the US prosecuting authorities and O'Dwyer's legal team could potentially be a trailblazing example that may smooth the way to resolving other protracted extradition cases involving financial claims.
Merrill and another large brokerage firm, the Smith Barney unit of Citigroup, are in the latter stages of a protracted process to resolve mass claims of sex discrimination that were filed in the late 1990's.
Those on islands further afield showed elevated risk for cancers, particularly thyroid cancers and leukaemia, and have been involved in a protracted compensation claim with the United States for decades.
In a bankruptcy, a company's financial and commercial creditors will often sell their claims in order to exit the protracted, contentious bankruptcy process.
Such statements seemed to buttress the company's claims that the demonstrations were indeed illegally protracted picketing that aimed to win union recognition.
"While the company denies all liability in these cases, it has agreed to the settlement in order to resolve all of the plaintiffs' claims without engaging in expensive, distracting and protracted litigation," CKE general counsel Robert A. Wilson said.
Mr. Umarov, the object of a protracted manhunt by the police and security forces, has claimed responsibility for a string of attacks throughout Russia, including two suicide bombings in the Moscow subway in March.
Over the last decade, KOCE became the center of a protracted court battle when the KOCE-TV Foundathen anDaystar Television Networketwork both claimed rightful ownership of the station after a bidding dispute.
The restrictions on collective bargaining, he claims, are needed to force through the other changes without protracted negotiations.
We're witnessing the protracted death throes of the very thing that most of us would claim to value the most in life: The Meaningful Social Life.
