The international tribunal for the law of the sea in Hamburg said its decision concerns only whether the ship should be released and not a wider judgment about whether warships can be seized in civil debt cases.
"What's worrying is we seem to have moved away from a clear ideological divide to an apolitical calculation as to who should be censored, because of a wider judgment based purely on the potential to upset and offend," says Tom Slater, assistant editor at Spiked and co-ordinator of the project.
The complaint seeks a class-wide judgment declaring the department's policies unconstitutional.
Judgment of the general, like wider judgments about the war itself, may alter as time lengthens, and we see what ultimately becomes of the American attempt to write a new chapter in the history of the Middle East.
Similarly, President Bill Clinton, learning that Justice Byron White would retire, declared that he would seek a candidate with "a fine mind, good judgment, wide experience in the law and in the problems of real people and someone with a big heart".
Dogs might be great to read to, with their perpetual, wide-eyed lack of judgment, but cats are great to write to: brutally frank, and always a little bit critical.
Cabinet ministers evoke a wide variety of judgments, but I cannot recall anything quite so caustic as that of the celebrated journalist Bernard Levin, on the foreign secretary, Selwyn Lloyd, in 1959.
This particular numerical example is admittedly extremely simple, but a wide variety of judgments of relative likeness to truth crop up both in everyday parlance as well as in scientific discourse.
Indeed, now that the justices have reversed the appeals court's finding and vacated its decision to strike down the ban on constitutional grounds, Judge Vaughn Walker's wide-ranging 2010 judgment against the California government remains the only decision to which both plaintiffs and defendants were properly before a federal court.
The surviving books give a clear, comprehensive account of events by a writer of soldierly qualities, independent judgment, and wide reading.
"We have been working closely with Germany on this case, and will now work with other European governments on the wide implications of the judgment in the coming days and weeks".
