Since the start of the mass hunger strike last year and the start of our litigation, the government has thrown up obstacle after obstacle to keep the public from understanding what force-feeding at the base really looks like.
Under the Iqbal decision, federal judges will now decide at the very start of a litigation whether the plaintiff's accusations ring true, and they will close the courthouse door if they do not.
Following the start of litigation, an investigation by the Lay Observer and the Law Society itself (which became known as the Ely Report) highlighted "an appalling catalogue of errors, insensitivity and poor judgment" in the handling of the Davies Affair by the Law Society internal disciplinary organisation.
But the close of one of the most closely watched police brutality cases, which ended without a single conviction, may mark the start of vigorous public litigation, with the potential to unleash new information about what happened the day of Gray's arrest and how the cases unfolded.
But the litigation did slow the start of the program.
"I can tell you for a fact that the board, really once it got started, there was little that we could do," he said of the litigation.
Start of the next week, the next Test hadn't quite started, but I departed litigation to what they insisted on calling "Real Estate", then moved in with a friend, then the Test started.
Settlements represent one end of the litigation pipeline.
Part of the problem was the magnitude of the litigation.
