the United States District Court for the District of Columbia under Judge Royce C. Lamberth related to the case. In December 2002 Judicial Watch obtained a ruling from Judge Lamberth that recently uncovered White House e-mails be searched for possible evidence in the lawsuit. Klayman said, "Hillary Clinton was the mastermind of Filegate. She will not escape justice." Klayman and Judicial Watch had a severe falling out in 2003, however, and several years went by with little or nothing happening in the lawsuit. On March 9, 2010, Judge Lamberth dismissed the case. The judge asserted that the plaintiffs, despite years of opportunity, had failed to provide any evidence that the affair was a grand conspiracy rather than a bureaucratic mistake, and said that "this court is left to conclude that with the lawsuit, to quote Gertrude Stein, 'there's no there there. Nussbaum, one of the defendants, derisively said "No kidding" when informed of the dismissal. Media reports concluded that, fourteen years after the initial events were set in motion, Filegate was finally over. In May 2010, Judicial Watch filed an appeal of the dismissal with the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, but the Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal on November 14, 2011, thereby bringing the case to an end. References External links Investigation Into the White House and Department of Justice on Security of FBI Background Investigation Files – Interim Report – ... by the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight September 1996 Final Report of the Independent Counsel ... of the Investigation In Re: Anthony Marceca March 2000 Final Report of the Independent Counsel ... of the Investigation In Re: Bernard Nussbaum March 2000 Cara Leslie Alexander et al. v. Federal Bureau of Investigation et al. March 2010 ruling by the United States District Court for the District of Columbia 1996 in American politics Clinton administration controversies Presidential scandals in the United States Hillary Clinton controversies 1996 scandals 1996 controversies in the United States