After a five-year legal odyssey through the New York courts the state's highest court ruled unanimously in my favor, that the public does, in fact, have such a right.

Her legal odyssey began after she gave the driver a transfer and asked him to interrupt his lunch to open a window before starting uptown.

The surprising twists and turns of his legal odyssey intensified a national debate about the degree to which prosecutors and judges might be politically motivated.

But the verdict did not end Ms. McDougal's legal odyssey.

The recommendation is the latest step in a complex legal odyssey stemming from the knifing in New Orleans of Lenora Collins on Sept. 10, 1977.

The trial is the culmination of a legal odyssey that led to a criminal trial in 2001, and now the civil suit.

Mr. Padro said his legal odyssey had its origin in a dispute over a cup of soup.

And in trying to do so, the 44-year-old Mr. Jantzen, who has cerebral palsy, embarked on a legal odyssey that he cannot now halt.

Sun Lili's legal odyssey began in October 1996, when she became pregnant - without the required permission of her employer's all-important family planning office.