EDO's legal team dropped the whole case before the trial started, after a damning judgement in March 2006, where a judge agreed with the remaining defendants, that the company had failed to prepare for what had been ordered by the court to be a speedy trial. An earlier judge had already decided the interim injunction created serious infringements of protester's ECHR human rights to expression and association. EDO agreed to pay the full costs to remaining defendants and discontinued the case against all remaining invisible defendants who had not even come forward after the summons had been issued against them.