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  • A grant of appellate review is dismissed as improvidently granted (DIG) when a court with discretionary appellate jurisdiction later decides that it should...
    32 KB (2,287 words) - 14:42, 27 June 2024
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    Amicus curiae brief Certiorari Cert. before judgment Cert. dismissed as improvidently granted Grant, vacate, remand Shadow docket In-chambers opinion Current...
    310 KB (31,414 words) - 05:19, 1 November 2024
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    Schlicke 1999, p. 158. Callow 2009, p. 13 Ackroyd 1990, p. 76:'recklessly improvident'. Pope-Hennessy 1945, p. 11. Forster 2006, p. 27. Ackroyd 1990, p. 76...
    179 KB (18,982 words) - 00:20, 4 November 2024
  • authority to do what it does today; but, in my view, its judgment is an improvident and extravagant exercise of the power of judicial review that the Constitution...
    249 KB (28,516 words) - 17:46, 4 November 2024
  • affair with President William Howard Taft and she refers to him as an "improvident lackwit". Furthermore, because she is so old, the only things she can...
    35 KB (3,911 words) - 08:16, 23 October 2024
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    British royal family regain the freehold under George III. When the improvident Goring defaulted on his rents, Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington was...
    68 KB (7,435 words) - 06:32, 31 October 2024
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    and, if so, whether this inequality resulted in the contract being an "improvident bargain" for the party with lesser bargaining power. The inequality criterion...
    240 KB (31,249 words) - 10:12, 29 October 2024
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    is found in the animal kingdom. Hardin said that if the children of improvident parents starved to death, if overbreeding was its own punishment, then...
    128 KB (15,233 words) - 21:33, 5 November 2024
  • its abortion ban. After hearing the case, the court dismissed it as improvidently granted and restored a lower court order allowing emergency abortions...
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    humiliated, and vows revenge. Bathsheba discovers that her new husband is an improvident gambler with little interest in farming. She also begins to suspect he...
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  • S2CID 141817893. Sutherland, Heather (2009). "Treacherous Translators and Improvident Paupers: Perception and Practice in Dutch Makassar, Eighteenth and Nineteenth...
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    as living in genteel penury, but the Alcott family, dependent on an improvident, impractical father, suffered real poverty and occasional hunger. In...
    81 KB (10,386 words) - 00:20, 29 October 2024
  • overrides the State's competing interest in protecting juveniles from improvident acts, even when such acts may include criminal activity on the part of...
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    alcoholic. The Duke was described as "rude, touchy, willful, unscrupulous, improvident, and unfaithful." The Duchess resented her husband's attitude, but kept...
    68 KB (8,202 words) - 02:13, 24 October 2024
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    : 24  Prejudice played a factor: Mexicans were stereotyped as "unclean, improvident, indolent, and innately dull",: 23  so many Mexicans did not apply for...
    63 KB (6,645 words) - 18:27, 28 October 2024
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    Unfortunately, he was also shallow, vain, careless, empty-headed, incompetent, improvident, and irresponsible." The Young King's contemporary reputation, however...
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    He destroyed its wall, he filled the land [with weeping ...] (...) an improvident sovereign [-] he felled with weapons Dur-ṣil-ilani son of Eri-[e]Aku...
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    the administration of Mackenzie King, it was realized that this was an improvident short-term solution that would result in future labour shortages (that...
    180 KB (16,530 words) - 21:38, 28 October 2024
  • evidence, evident, evidential, evidentiality, evidentiary, improvidence, improvident, improvisation, improvisational, improvise, imprudence, imprudent, inadvisable...
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    before the court. In this event the writ of certiorari is "dismissed as improvidently granted" (DIGged)—saying, in effect that the Court should not have accepted...
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