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SCOTUS thus reviewed a non-final case and decided a constitutional issue never raised below.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Lochner v. New York as a Test Case 2010
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SCOTUS thus reviewed a non-final case and decided a constitutional issue never raised below.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Lochner v. New York as a Test Case 2010
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• Despite the fact that Examiner amendments are allowed as of right only after a non-final rejection, 77.2% of interviews come after the final rejection.
Examining Patent Examination Peter Zura 2009
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The Complaint makes for an interesting read, and has at least one surprising omission: Blackboard somehow forgot to mention that on March 25, in a non-final action, the PTO rejected each of the 44 claims of the patent.
Archive 2008-11-30 2008
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Stressed short vowels were lengthened and received a falling tone before a non-final lost jer in Slovene, e.g. bȋtka ‘battle’.
Archive 2008-07-01 2008
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Stressed short vowels were lengthened and received a falling tone before a non-final lost jer in Slovene, e.g. bȋtka ‘battle’.
A better understanding of Pre-IE gemination may lie with Slavic 2008
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That is, there are no non-final syllables of the form CVC or CV: which attract accent from the default initial position in Proto-Semitic as they tend to do in its daughter languages1.
Archive 2008-03-01 2008
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The Complaint makes for an interesting read, and has at least one surprising omission: Blackboard somehow forgot to mention that on March 25, in a non-final action, the PTO rejected each of the 44 claims of the patent.
B2fxxx 2008
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That is, there are no non-final syllables of the form CVC or CV: which attract accent from the default initial position in Proto-Semitic as they tend to do in its daughter languages1.
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Judging by the accentuation of its daughter languages and based on what loans I suspect in Mid IE, Proto-Semitic likely placed a light stress accent on the first syllable by default, or on the first available non-final 'heavy' syllable.
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