Justices Stevens and Kennedy said pointedly that if it turns out that "the government has unreasonably delayed proceedings" or subjects the detainees to "some other and ongoing injury," the Supreme Court would be open to a renewed appeal.

The appellants argued successfully that criminal charges against them should be stayed on the grounds that their trial had been unreasonably delayed, contrary to the Charter's guarantee under Section 11(b) that "Any person charged with an offence has the right... to be tried within a reasonable time."

Tureen relied on a provision of the Administrative Procedure Act, 5 U.S.C. 706(1), which permits a review court to "compel agency action unlawfully withheld or unreasonably delayed."

It then dismissed the government's complaint on grounds of laches, holding that because the United States unreasonably delayed in notifying Clearfield Trust Co. of the forgery, it was barred from recovery.

The museum immediately sought to have the suit dismissed on grounds that Turkey had unreasonably delayed making its demand and that the museum's case would be unfairly weakened by the absence of witnesses and the loss of documents.

On 2 November 2010, the High Court ruled that the government had delayed unreasonably in holding the by-election.

For this reason, slow pulls should be considered fair game unless it is unreasonably delayed or there are fewer than 3-4 players remaining.

The state settled the lawsuit with inmates, agreeing to pay a penalty to a nonprofit group for any hearing that it considered unreasonably delayed.

Time and again, in my capacity as a member of the Committee on Petitions, I come up against cases in which compensation was either not paid out to victims, or it was at any rate unreasonably delayed, where even EU citizens in other EU States had applied for it.

Noting that broadcasters had sought a final ruling from the agency to repeal the rules since 1980, the court added, "if these circumstances do not constitute agency action unreasonably delayed, it is difficult to imagine circumstances that would."