1.   The earlier verdict was overturned on a legal technicality.

2.   Schwarz maintains he is innocent, and he is appealing the earlier verdict.

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

4.   Vedera also said that a settlement voids any earlier verdict or judgments, even though records of the original decision normally remain publicly available through the courts.

5.   The seventh boy, who had pleaded guilty in the family court, recanted and has sought to have the earlier verdict overturned.

6.   The Supreme Court concurred with the earlier verdict, a court official said.

7.   There was immediate uproar in Britain after the earlier verdict and London tabloids cried that the jury was wrong.

8.   The United Arab Emirates government voided the earlier verdict and sentence, and ordered a retrial in an Islamic Court.

9.   The World Trade Organization is set to rule Monday on a U.S. appeal against an earlier verdict that backed EU complaints against tax breaks for American exporters.

10.   An earlier verdict was overturned.