nationals had had the Mexican consulate notified. They were subsequently tried, convicted, condemned to death. The Mexicans took this to the World Court. The World Court ordered us to have all of these cases reviewed. Interestingly, even though the individuals had exhausted their state law remedies, the -- with this order, this was the first challenge for Secretary Rice as secretary of State, in February of 2005. And she persuaded the president that we had to comply with the World Court's order, even though it was contrary to state law. And so the president, even being a former governor of Texas, and even though his mailbag was running terribly against reviewing all of these cases, ordered -- issued an order in February 2005 to have the -- all these cases in Texas and California reviewed and reconsidered. Texas then challenged their former governor. Said he lacked the power, under the Constitution, to do that. We defended the president's decision all the way up to the Supreme Court. And sadly, in 2008, the Supreme Court then struck down our effort to comply with international law, saying the president -- while it's true that there were some international law obligations, they didn't dispute that, they said the president lacks the power, under his foreign affairs authority, to order compliance contrary to state law. So we had actually worked all the way up to the Supreme Court, even when it was very difficult and contrary to popular opinion, to comply with the order