When the European Union court ruling was issued last October, the expectation was that it would take less than six months to ratify the judgment into German corporate law.
History, it must be said, has not exactly ratified Mr. Ross's judgment.
Charles Gray's reasoned judgment ratified every major proposition the defence sought to establish.
Since Nov. 7, both candidates have only ratified the voters' judgment that neither man is deserving of a mandate or capable of rising above his considerable limitations.
Many solicitors, who had been expecting the court of appeal ruling to be ratified, welcomed the judgment as a fairer distribution of property.
Last year, Judge David Tatel's opinion in Shelby County v. Holder, for the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, ratified the congressional judgment that Section Five remains an important bulwark for protecting the right to vote.
Entergy moved for summary judgment, claiming Oubre had ratified the defective release by failing to return or offer to return the monies she had received.
Nearly 30 years later, Mr. Dobson's judgment on Mr. Graf has been ratified and redeemed.
The ECHR's judgments are binding on countries that have ratified the European Convention on Human Rights.
Activists in the United States worry that, if the convention is agreed and ratified, American courts would end up having to enforce judgments against people whose actions were entirely legal under local laws.
The agenda was clear: Sprint had a new music phone designed by Samsung, and the group was hoping for a positive reception from a man who has become to technology what Brooks Atkinson once was to the New York theatre — someone whose judgment can ratify years of effort or sink the show.
