"Previously disclosed uncertainties remain, particularly relating to conduct and litigation matters," the bank said.
She went to work for the Interior Department in 1999, where she provided legal advice, developed regulations and conducted litigation, then left government in 2001 to work as vice president for government affairs and general counsel for American Rivers, an advocacy organization.
Lady Carnarvon saw this as blackmail and persuaded her new husband to take his wife to court for what Sir Henry McCardie, who tried the case, called "the most bitterly conducted litigation I have ever known".
The government cannot be seen as conducting litigation with the enormous implications of this litigation -- litigation imbued with significant public interest -- in such a way as to select by which forum as between the Supreme Court of the United States and an inferior appellate court it wishes to be bound.
This raises another important issue: potential defendants in toxic tort litigation (and law enforcement officials on the criminal side) have the resources to conduct or fund research valuable for litigation that has contingent value, but potential civil plaintiffs (and criminal defendants) do not.
Such secrecy hinders Congress' ability to conduct oversight and means that costly litigation, at taxpayers' expense, is the often the only recourse for getting at the truth.
To conduct a retrospective analysis of incident reports concerning dental injury, the most common cause for litigation against anesthesiologists, to determine specific risk factors that will help in formulating a risk reduction strategy for this clinical problem.
Reiss is a litigation partner at Weil Gotshal & Manges, the New York law firm Sotheby's hired to conduct an internal investigation of price-fixing allegations.
The aim is to encourage potential defendants to conduct appropriate testing before marketing, to act responsibly in the face of suspected defects, and to conduct themselves fairly in litigation.
In moving to conduct a separate health review, Mr. Martens said, the state is seeking to prepare "the most legally defensible" environmental report in the event of any litigation that could ensue if the state allows fracking to proceed.
