After a protracted, hysterical trial scene more notable for the frankness of its language than for dramatic credibility, the jury, to no one's surprise, leaves the legal question unresolved.

Following a protracted legal process culminating in a court ruling favorable to the Bahá ' ís, the interior minister of Egypt released a decree on April 14, 2009, amending the law to allow Egyptians who are not Muslim, Christian, or Jewish to obtain identification documents that list dash in place of one of the three recognized religions.

Armstrong and De Forest fought a protracted legal battle over the rights to the " regenerative " oscillator circuit which has been called " the most complicated patent litigation in the history of radio ".

In 1968 Dancer's Image became the first ( and to this day the only ) horse to win the race and then be disqualified after traces of phenylbutazone, an analgesic and anti-inflammatory drug, were found in the horse's urinalysis ; Forward Pass won after a protracted legal battle by the owners of Dancer's Image ( which they lost ).

Catherine contested the divorce, and a protracted legal battle followed.

It was to be the Roses ' last original release for four years as they entered a protracted legal battle to terminate their five-year contract with Silvertone, unhappy with how they had been paid by the label.

Bermuda spent much of the 18th century in a protracted legal battle with the Bahamas ( which had itself been colonised by Bermudians in 1647 ) over the Turks Islands.

His ownership of Stondon Place, where he lived for the rest of his life, was bitterly contested by Joanna Shelley, with whom he engaged in a protracted and unedifying legal dispute lasting about a decade and a half.

Their involvement, however, led to a protracted legal battle between Oxford and the Stationers, and the litigation dragged on for the rest of Fell's life.

Despite a protracted legal battle with Random House in 1996, she has since published many books: both fictional, non-fictional and autobiographical.

The process of demarcation is slow — often involving protracted legal battles — and FUNAI do not have sufficient resources to enforce the legal protection on indigenous land.

This resulted in Zappa's finances and ongoing works becoming part of protracted legal negotiations.

Knight sued for breach of contract, which resulted in a protracted legal battle and the band dropping the word " Railroad " from their name ( in his 2001 autobiography, " From Grand Funk to Grace ", Farner stated that the shortening of the band's name was done after most of their fans began to refer to them as Grand Funk ).

Lord Invader was quick to follow, and staying in New York City after a protracted legal case involving the theft of his song " Rum and Coca-Cola ", a hit by the Andrews Sisters, made his home there along with Wilmoth Houdini, and became one of the great calypsonians of the USA.

( The writing credit for the song was the subject of a protracted legal battle ; the resolution of the case has Faithfull listed as co-author of the song.

Fine Wine was one of several band names used by Moby Grape members during the course of a protracted legal dispute with former manager Matthew Katz over ownership of the Moby Grape name.

Nearly 250 years later in 1998, illegally salvaged coins from Clive's treasure chest were offered for sale, and in 2002 a portion of the coins were given to the South African government after protracted legal wrangling.

After a protracted legal battle, Besant took custody of Krishnamurti and Nitya.

The next few years were marked by protracted legal procedures before the assets of the old company could be transferred and before final consent to rebuild the railway was given.

The objects, which became the subject of protracted legal negotiations, were returned seven years later.

The Bridgwater and Taunton Canal opened in 1827, which provided an easier route than the river, and protracted legal battles followed over ownership of the river and water rights for the canal.

He fought a long and protracted legal battle against the NBA and the NBA Players ' Union, protesting the $ 1, 700 / month pensions for players who had retired before 1965, the start of the so-called " big money era ".

Indeed, Mes likely ordered the protracted legal dispute, which is presented as a series of court depositions and testimonies of various plaintiffs and witnesses, to be inscribed on his tomb walls in order to create a permanent (' carved in stone ') record of his family's ultimately victorious struggle to win back these lands.

In 1979, Wilson became involved in a protracted legal battle with Motown over their management of the Supremes.

His " honeymoon " with Warners over, Garfield entered a protracted period of conflict with the studio, they attempting to cast him in crowd-pleasing melodramas like Dust Be My Destiny and he insisting on quality scripts that would offer a challenge and highlight his versatility.

A protracted illness followed, which included a vesicular rash and was diagnosed as a mild case of smallpox.

However, this was followed by the protracted Williamite War in Ireland and Dundee's rising in Scotland.

For the inhabitants of a contested area, famine often followed protracted periods of warfare, because foraging armies ate any food stores they could find, reducing or depleting reserve stores.

He succeeded Innocent I and was followed by Boniface I. Zosimus took a decided part in the protracted dispute in Gaul as to the jurisdiction of the See of Arles over that of Vienne, giving energetic decisions in favour of the former, but without settling the controversy.

But the fleet of the Ionians was defeated off the island of Lade, and the destruction of Miletus after a protracted siege was followed by the reconquest of all the Asiatic Greeks, insular as well as continental.

A protracted struggle with the supporters of Euthymios followed, which did not end until the new Emperor Romanos I Lekapenos promulgated the Tomos of Union in 920.

The route of this highly controversial road, which followed a similar route to that of the planned M11 extension resulted in the protracted M11 link road protest between 1993 and 1995, which one of a number of major UK road protests at the time.

The Balkans had been in a state of turmoil since the early 1900s, with years of guerrilla warfare in Macedonia followed by the Young Turk Revolution and the protracted Bosnian Crisis.

In the long protracted coalition negotiations that followed a grand coalition was formed with Gusenbauer as Chancellor in a grand coalition with the ÖVP which was finally sworn in January 2007, 3 months after the elections.

Large-scale immigration to the prairies did not get underway until 1896 ( immigrants prior to then generally preferring to live in the U. S. due to a protracted recession in Canada that followed confederation ).

The protracted battle for Guadalcanal — followed by the unopposed seizure of the Russell Islands ( Operation Cleanslate ) on 21 February 1943 — resulted in Japanese attempts to reinforce the area by sea.

An election followed in June, resulting in protracted attempts to negotiate a governing coalition.

This followed protracted negotiations regarding the early introduction of ground attack capabilities of the aircraft and hence its swing-role capability.

These appointments followed a protracted political struggle in which Balfour triumphed over his distinguished opponent, Joseph Dalton Hooker, a close associate of Charles Darwin.

The closest Senate election in history, it went through two recounts at the state level, followed by protracted debate on the Senate floor, until both candidates agreed to a special election.

In 1946 the Ford Motor Company parted from Ferguson and a protracted lawsuit followed, involving Ford's continued use of Ferguson's patents.

* The First Indochina War in Vietnam that resulted in the defeat of the French at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu, 1954, and brought the Communist Party of Vietnam under Ho Chi Minh to power in North Vietnama victory followed closely by the protracted guerrilla warfare-dominated Vietnam War ( 1957 – 1975 ), which in turn led to the Fall of Saigon and the driving-out of occupying U. S. military forces there, and the unification of North and South Vietnam by communist guerrilla forces into the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

This disaster was followed by a protracted war in Africa against King Jugurtha of Numidia.

After the Americans claimed that World War II had ended the Agreement, protracted legal proceedings with Gulbenkian followed.

The protracted famine was followed inevitably by plague ; whole districts were absolutely denuded of population and house after house lay empty.

These changes have resulted in the effective hydrological separation between the ULB and the Litani lower reaches. The advent of a protracted civil strife in the 1970s followed by a prolonged occupation in the 1980s that lasted into the 1990s, have plunged the country into disarray, freezing development and investment in infrastructure.

The move was protracted, disrupting production and was followed by a downturn in the Spanish economy.