"Shortly thereafter the case was turned over to the State Police".
First Data announced the settlement with the Justice Department shortly before the case was scheduled to go to trial.
Shortly after the case began, the California Legislature passed a bill granting professional licenses to unauthorized aliens, and the United States did not amend its original amicus brief.
A row broke out shortly after the case was heard when it emerged that the prosecuting barrister Robert Colover had labelled the young girl "predatory" and "sexually experienced".
He tweeted shortly before the case began reiterating his claim that the Netherlands has a "huge problem with Moroccans", adding: "To be silent about it is cowardly".
Shortly after the case, Mr. Bickerstaff wrote to Ford suggesting "you retain our services to assist you in preparing myself, in Ford's favor".
Yet Russia in fact released the Greenpeace crew and its ship shortly after the case was brought; and it did show up to defend itself in a case Georgia brought against it in 2008.
Speaking with leaders in the UK, France, Germany and Italy shortly after the case was confirmed on Wednesday, the US president said they all urgently needed to marshal extra finances and personnel to "bend the curve of the epidemic" in west Africa.
At a hearing in November, shortly after the case was halted, the liquidators had asked Mr Justice Tomlinson for a cooling-off period to try to reach a deal over costs.
If an actual party to a case took the judge to a resort, all expenses paid, shortly before the case was heard, the judge and the host would be perceived to be acting improperly even if all they discussed was their grandchildren.
