But he suggested that if legal appeals continued until then, a compromise could be found.

Environmental groups have used legal appeals to fight decisions that they said damaged the land.

For their part, government officials continue to consider whether to bring further legal appeals.

There is no legal appeal from a military court ruling.

Italian law does not allow for further legal appeal after the decision on Wednesday.

There will be hearings, letters and legal appeals to stretch his life a little further.

Now no legal appeal may again occur on that runner at third base.

Democrats said they were willing to wait as the legal appeals and political machinations play out.

The legal appeal that this evidence should not have been admitted to the court was also lost in 2006.

Officials said that such contacts were not prohibited under certain circumstances but might become an issue in any legal appeal.