It was President Bush's first defeat in a judicial battle.
Nor are the judicial battles over.
However, after a long judicial battle, the magistrature declared the Italian Federation decision as invalid, and forced it to include the team back into the footballing fold.
No less important, Senate Democrats are putting down markers for the next judicial battle.
Republicans said they had won the judicial battle because Democrats followed the practice of decades in drawing a legislative map primarily designed to protect their incumbents.
In the ideologically polarized climate of the current judicial battles, there is little room for scholarly parsing.
He then wants to move on to energy legislation before considering court nominees left outside the bounds of the compromise, a move that could restart the judicial battle.
In the past two weeks, religious leaders on both sides of the judicial battle have plunged into the debate.
After a lengthy judicial battle, the two clubs ceased their relations for decades.