He was a man obsessed by the Government's legal and illegal attempts to control information.
No legal attempt was formally made to have the Wilkinsons pay the interest until after the company went into liquidation.
His charitable work was also resented by a number of local doctors who made repeated legal attempts to shut down the free clinic.
Frequent legal attempts were consequently made to see it removed.
Kovacs' first wife made a legal attempt to gain custody of her two daughters shortly after his death.
Eight athletes hit the auto mark in their first legal attempt.
But there may now be many more legal attempts to establish that a taking has occurred.
Those fears led to an exacting legal attempt in the 20th century to define precisely where white ends and black begins.
It comes at a time of legal attempts to provide nontraditional families greater standing in areas like housing, health insurance and child visitation.
At one point, the Government failed in a legal attempt to seize his companies.