Obama's China team is hoping that the early verdicts have a short shelf life.

The recent appeals court ruling, for instance, contradicts an earlier verdict in the Fourth Circuit that appeared to let industry off the hook.

An early verdict would nor' be in our favor, but in this case, I don't know what think.

The quashing came as a shock because it went against the earlier verdict of a panel of senior judges.

Had there been separate trials, potential jurors would have been questioned about the earlier verdict.

Much of the analysis contrasted with the early verdict of the Environmental Protection Agency, which said that there were no acute hazards.

As a surprise the penalties were milder than earlier bloody verdicts.

There was however a mechanism for prosecuting the witnesses of a successful prosecutor, which it appears could lead to the undoing of the earlier verdict.

This work marked a partial reconsideration of his earlier harsh verdict on the German people.

In an early verdict on the result, currency traders sent the yen plunging in trading against the dollar this morning.