"You hope they reduce the amount of internecine warfare with motions back and forth".
It turned out that the large companies that used Andersen were not willing to go before shareholders this year with motions to approve Andersen as an auditor.
In the closing session on Wednesday the conference tripped nimbly through its international agenda with motions on the grisly civil war in Colombia.
Speaking in what has become a familiar high-pitched tone in the cavernous courtroom here, the most prominent of the five, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, said, "we don't want to waste our time with motions".
But at the US district court in New York, judge William Pauley dismissed the request and set a schedule, with motions to be filed by 26 August and oral arguments to begin on 1 November.
"Trifonova's attorney time and again appealed to the investigator with motions to change the pretrial restrictions, given her worsening health," said a statement on the Web site of the prosecutor general's investigative wing.
