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According to head section leader, Ezekiel Emmanuel, if Sandel's $10.95 work were not assigned, an "underground market" would have caused a backlog of orders because of the book's relevance to the course...
Play began on the showcourts two hours early to try and make up for the backlog of matches caused by the wet weather on the first three days of the tournament...
...receive no check by June 1 are entitled to 13% interest until it arrives. The IRS, however, hopes to catch up soon. The agency predicts its total interest payout will be $200 million, roughly the same as last year. Some anonymous IRS employees told journalists that the tax backlog had got so bad that agency workers had deliberately shredded thousands of returns. Egger heatedly rejected those stories. Said he: "I'm here to tell you it's sheer nonsense...
Indeed, the dominant conservative faction finds the protracted pursuit of appeals wasteful and diversionary, and has encouraged the lower courts to process the backlog of death penalty cases swiftly. As those backed-up cases now come surging through the courts, however, many observers are concerned that the sheer numbers will cause judicial corners to be cut, and that convicts will go to the executioner having had imperfect legal representation. One of Stephens' main appeals arguments was rejected, for instance, because his lawyers filed the motions late...
...which still evades me... They've asserted a reporter's source privilege in terms that I think could be--I think you can legitimately defend a reporter's source privilege--but in fact the press advanced it in the most incredibly high-toned terms... They've built up a backlog of incredulity amongst judges, where the judge says. "Oh, here comes the newspaper with the hot-air argument again...