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pipoman

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5. I admittedly haven't followed prior rulings

Reply to spanone (Original post)

Mon May 5, 2014, 09:37 PM

May 2014

Usually when they accept such a case there is some ambiguity in the body of precedent that they are trying to address, or to change an existing precedent. Is this why they took it?

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