Now it is the subject of a legal tug-of-war, one that will land in a court of law Monday morning.

That set off a legal tug-of-war, with Mr. Cuomo petitioning Federal Judge Frank H. Seay in Oklahoma to settle the matter.

He then endured a bitter legal tug-of-war for seven months between her estranged parents about where she should be laid to rest.

Just hours later, in the western city of Nizhny Novgorod, ballot counting in a race for mayor descended into chaos, with the candidates locked in a legal tug-of-war.

But a relative says she is confused by the legal tug-of-war and the attention from a family she never knew.

IT was only a copy of the Declaration of Independence, but it touched off a legal tug-of-war in New Hampshire.

Since the indictments, Mr. Clifford has been caught up in an elaborate legal tug-of-war as flocks of lawyers and prosecutors argue over where and when - if ever - he will go to trial.

Apple is currently involved in a major legal tug-of-war with Motorola in the US concerning 40+ smartphone-related patents; four federal lawsuits and two ITC investigations are pending between the two mobile device makers.

Since the indictments, lawyers in New York and Washington have engaged in an elaborate and confusing legal tug-of-war.

Despite the current legal tug-of-war, Mr. Lo Iacono said the borough was moving forward with the redevelopment and preparing to solicit proposals from developers in March.