Word: dismissals
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...judges agreed that the easiest thing for the 1857 court to have done would have been to determine that Scott was not a citizen, dismiss the case, and allow the ruling of the Missouri Supreme Court to stand...
...According to Breyer, one potential explanation is that Taney might have tried to cut a deal with Justice Benjamin R. Curtis, a staunch abolitionist, to dismiss the case, but that Curtis’ might have rejected the deal, prompting Taney to take a hard-line position...
...monster named Male-bashing. Despite the fact that American women are achieving at higher rates than ever before—they are accepted to colleges at higher rates than men, for instance—in the latest mutation of female empowerment, it has become totally acceptable for women to dismiss men as worthless bastards...
...tempting to dismiss Abdullah's summit rhetoric as playing to the gallery, but the Washington Post reports that Abdullah has also cancelled his attendance at a White House state dinner planned in his honor next month. It wasn't so long ago that Bush and Abdullah were practically love birds, holding hands as they walked past news cameras during Abdullah's last visit to the U.S. in 2005. For better or worse, they may increasingly be going their separate ways...
...early 2006, El-Masri sued the CIA and various private contractors that, he claimed, had mistakenly subjected him to "extraordinary rendition," the CIA program of moving suspects to countries that allowed interrogation techniques prohibited in the U.S. In March 2006, government lawyers moved to dismiss his case, because it would require disclosure of state secrets about extraordinary rendition. El-Masri objected, arguing that the rendition program had been so widely covered that much of it was no longer secret. And whatever was still secret could remain so by allowing only the judge to review it. But the federal judge...