"I hope the same thing will happen in that case that happened in court here this year," Mr. Jones said.
Yet even in that case, that still means that Microsoft has received far more money from Android licensing than from its own phones, so far.
In a trial that followed, one victim was awarded $824,100; it was that case that was appealed and overturned Thursday.
The watchdog had called for three officers to face full disciplinary hearings in that case that could have seen them sacked.
Janet DiFiore, the Westchester County district attorney, demoted the Yonkers bureau chief in her office who handled the state prosecution, saying in an interview that "he made a call on that case that was wrong and unacceptable".
A.I.G.'s lawyers repeatedly mentioned the Merrill case this week in negotiations with Mr. Cuomo's office and delayed providing him with names pending the outcome of that case, that person said.
It would be disheartening if he didn't repay you after you showed such kindness to him, but even in that case, that wouldn't justify breaking your word to the funeral home.
It was that case that led to her own incarceration: she was convicted of smuggling messages from the imprisoned sheik to his violent followers in Egypt, and was sentenced in 2010 to 10 years in prison.
There was something about that case that really set people off; my theory was that it combined Obama, socialised medicine, female sexuality and collectivism, the idea that society should be bearing the cost of birth control, which really bothers people for some reason.
Things we did in that case that were unheard of at the time included visiting the crime scene, visiting the defendant's home, inspecting the physical evidence, reading the books that might have influenced him and interviewing a large number of witnesses who observed or interacted with the defendant.
And while the future of a scientific field hung in the balance in that case, that is still on a different scale from, say, a sick population waiting for a new drug, or a climate system waiting for some fundamental changes in human behaviour.
