Nevertheless, a 2009 systematic review and meta-analysis of trials in people diagnosed with schizophrenia found that less than half ( 41 %) showed any therapeutic response to an antipsychotic, compared to 24 % on placebo, and that there was a decline in treatment response over time, and possibly a bias in which trial results were published.

The Australian state of Victoria maintained, until 2009, provisions for a grand jury in the Crimes Act 1958 under section 354 Indictments, which had been used on rare occasions by individuals to bring other persons to court seeking them to be committed for trial on indictable offences.

Data from an ongoing Phase I / II clinical trial were presented at CROI 2009.

In 2009 a federal court of appeals in San Francisco found that Ashcroft could be sued and held personally responsible for the wrongful detention of material witness Abdullah al-Kidd – an American citizen arrested in March 2003 and held for 13 months in maximum security to be used as a witness in the trial of Sami Omar Al-Hussayen ( who himself was acquitted of all charges of supporting terrorism ).

A 2009 study by the European Association of Law and Economics observed that innocent defendants are consistently more likely than guilty defendants to reject otherwise-favorable pleas proposals, even when theoretically disadvantageous to do so, because of perceived unfairness, and would do so even if the expected sanction would be worse if they proceeded to trial.

At a two-day conservatorship trial in Los Angeles in June 2009, one of Falk's personal physicians, Dr. Stephen Read, reported that Falk had rapidly slipped into dementia after a series of dental operations in 2007.

A trial winter ( 1 June – 31 August ) sprinkler ban was introduced in 2009 by the State Government, a move which the Government later announced would be made permanent.

The first human trial was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration in January 2009.

Brands announced that it would open additional restaurants in Spain in early 2009 as part of a test trial for the European market.

Brands announced that it is considering reopening Taco Bell locations in the United Kingdom as part of a large planned expansion into Europe, with trial outlets opening first in Spain in early 2009.

On 30 October 2009, a judge ordered Chirac to stand trial on embezzlement charges, dating back to his time as mayor of Paris.

The actor Norman Painting played Phil Archer continuously from the first trial series in 1950 until his death on 29 October 2009.

The trial was initiated in November 2009 at the University of California, San Francisco ( UCSF ) Children's Hospital.

A trial on these charges began in Potenza, Italy on December 21, 2009.

According to the ICTR's Completion Strategy, in accordance with Security Council Resolution 1503, all first-instance cases were to have completed trial by the end of 2008 ( this date was later extended to the end of 2009 ) and all work is to be completed by 2010.

In 2009 the results of a randomized double-blind placebo-controlled crossover trial on the use of magnetic wrist straps ( a leather strap with a magnetic insert ) for osteoarthritis were published, addressing a gap in the earlier systematic review.

In early October 2009, a third competency trial for Mitchell was underway, with Elizabeth Smart testifying.

The Indiana Supreme Court, on June 16, 2009, unanimously affirmed the trial court's confirmation of Bennett's election as Mayor.

* On November 26, 2009, the New Zealand Parliament voted to abolish Section 169 of the Crimes Act 1961, removing the provocation defence from New Zealand law, although this change was more a result of the failed provocation defence in the Sophie Elliott murder trial of her ex-boyfriend.

* In 2009, a case went to trial in France, after a woman claims to have been pressured into paying € 21, 000 ($ 29, 400 ) to the Church of Scientology for lessons, books and medicines for her poor mental state accused the Church of Scientology of " organised fraud ".

In an interview with Al Jazeera in 2009 Bouterse said that the trial is being used by his political opponents to prevent him from running for office again and for their own political gain.

* Lou Bender ( 1910 – 2009 ), pioneer player with the Columbia Lions and in early pro basketball, who was later a successful trial attorney.

During the 2008 – 2009 " Dark Reign " storyline, Uncle Ben makes an appearance in the Underworld when Hercules attends the trial of Zeus, directing Amadeus Cho as he attempted to find his parents in the afterlife.

Filed on January 30, 2007, the lawsuit was initially set to go to trial in April 2009, but eventually canceled as Norwood had settled extrajudicially with Aboudihaj's parents.

For a brief trial period in Summer 2000, selected episodes from the first series were shown on Fridays at 7 pm and from 16 February 2009, the show began transmitting in high definition on BBC HD at 4: 00pm the same day.

See the article 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis regarding claims regarding legitimacy and illegitimacy of the event, and events preceding and following the removal of Zelaya from Honduras.

Mobil commenced removal of the refinery in July 2009, together with site remediation works.

One of the major changes to be made to the revision of the Tube map put out in September 2009 was the removal of the River Thames.

Demolition began in March 2009 with the removal of the playing field.

Ian Hamilton spoke of the removal and damage of the stone as recently as 26 July 2009 at The Gathering 2009 in Edinburgh.

Since 2009 until today, mayor Norman Quijano has been working in the " Rescate del Centro Historico " which involves the removal of street vendors and remodeling of parks, and historic buildings.

The group has recently cut the number of regional news programmes offered from 17 in 2007 to 9 by 2009, resulting several regions being merged to form on programme, including the Border and Tyne Tees regions, the Westcountry and West regions and the removal of sub regional programming, with some regions only represented by pre-recorded segments.

This project, which is to be completed later in 2009, will involve the replacement of the bridge over Delia Avenue, the removal of a bridge over an abandoned rail line, and the widening of the two-lane road to include a shoulder.

In November, 2009 a California Golden beaver family was caught in snares underwater and drowned in Griff Creek, a stream in King's Beach, California when Placer County Department of Public Works ordered their removal for fear that the beaver would cause flooding.

In February 2009, it was announced that the station had changed its format from talk to Top 40, and the removal of Broadcasting Bonaduce from the KLSX schedule was confirmed.

* In April 2009, the website Smart Bitches, Trashy Books launched a Google bomb against Amazon in response to its removal of ´ LGBT material from their ranking lists, Amazon citing it as " adult material ".

However, on November 13, 2009, Pennsylvania dropped the plan for the JII based on the gradual removal of the 111th Fighter Wing.

On March 31, 2009, McGuinty admitted to considering of the removal of the minimum wage increase at 2010 from $ 9. 25, to $ 10. 25 as a mistake after the reactions that he received from the opposition and anti-poverty activists.

A planning application was submitted to Bromley Council in February 2009, which will include alterations to the Victorian booking hall building, removal of the current ticket office, removal of the pedestrian bridge over Platforms 1 and 2 and new stairs to Platform 1.

In October 2009, Kelly Brook claimed that Ant & Dec had been the cause of her removal as the fourth judge on Britain's Got Talent.

Its removal began in April 2009, and was completed in October 2009.

The removal from the Citizenship and Immigration website occurred in the same month that its multi-party counterpart, the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration was debating that issue: On February 12, 2009, that multi-party committee passed, for the second time, a non-binding motion reaffirming Parliament's earlier ( June 2008 ) vote which recommended that the government let Iraq War resisters stay in Canada.

The new Turkish lira () was the currency of Turkey and the de facto independent state of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus between 1 January 2005 and 1 January 2009 which was a transition period for the removal of six zeroes from the currency.

Fiji's Commodore Frank Bainimarama has stepped down on 10 April 2009 as interim prime minister, after the country's court of appeal ruled the removal of the democratic government during his 2006 military coup was unlawful.

In April 2009, the Court of Appeal ruled the removal of the democratic government during his 2006 military coup was illegal.

As such, the rules for succession are not fixed, but may be changed by a constitutional amendment ; in December 2009, Prime Minister John Key expressed his support for proposed removal of male-preference primogeniture and anti-Catholic provisions in the succession laws.