Text: The government's lawyers suspect that the real source of Lamberth's ire is not the sloppy sentence in an affidavit but the government attorneys' hardball tactics and unwillingness to compromise, which drew the case out for four years .
Entailment: They did not want to budge which resulted in the case taking a few years.
Contradiction: They were cooperative and helped to get the case solved in a timely manner.