With the legal standoff between the House's most powerful Democrat and the outside counsel, the committee is set to resume its deliberations Tuesday morning.

A legal standoff is threatening to idle about 240 workers and extend a cleanup that costs $1 million a day.

There appears to be a legal standoff between the commission and member states about who should introduce a threshold allowing only serious crimes to be pursued through EAWs.

The Company then sued Schäffer for damages, but after an inconclusive legal standoff found it easier to let him go back to Germany.

Some Catholic leaders said yesterday that the settlement could put pressure on other bishops and leaders of religious orders who have been paralyzed in legal standoffs in sexual abuse lawsuits in dioceses across the country.

In January, Qwest filed complaints with state regulators over the equipment problems, leading to a protracted legal standoff and public backbiting.

But the tense legal standoff that led to the Columbine ruling is likely to repeat itself in Virginia if we don't quickly devise an alternative.

The conflict has led to a legal standoff and a new effort by legislators to resolve the issue.

But while the deal, which heads off a potentially nasty legal standoff, permits the recording companies to sell music over the Internet, the sides have still to determine royalties to be paid.

Unfortunately, fights over the deals that were signed at the time have led to a legal standoff where both new Amiga hardware and a finished OS4 are available, but they cannot be sold to consumers.