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7 Aug 2017, 9:01 pm by Lesley Wexler
When President Trump contends that allowing transgender service “erodes military readiness and unit cohesion,” he is providing the thinnest of fig leaves for the underlying discriminatory reasons that non-trans troops might not want to serve with trans troops. [read post]
3 Jan 2011, 7:57 am by Scott M. Daniels
” This concave-convex nozzle structure, on which both Mack-Ray and Smucker focus, is shown in Fig. 4 of the ‘328 and ‘994 patents in which nozzle 11 slopes outwardly and then inwardly at the opening. [read post]
4 Jun 2010, 8:07 pm by Ilya Somin
To be sure, sometimes public ownership can be a mere fig-leaf for control by a private interest group. [read post]
13 Jul 2012, 1:36 pm by Kelly Phillips Erb
It’s the kind of thing that I occasionally need to shout at my kids (those of you familiar with “The Great Fig Caper” at my house will understand) but I thought not so much with clients. [read post]
17 May 2007, 12:01 am
And he wants to engage in the fig leaf of "enhanced interrogation techniques" that McCain was willing to call torture.It is difficult to assess whether Romney is simply an ignorant fool or whether he believes that his audience is full of ignorant fools. [read post]
18 May 2010, 6:39 am
"It was Lockheed -- not CASA -- who drafted the CASA letter, knowing that it was a fig leaf designed to conceal Lockheed's intentional release of its P-3 trade secrets in order to accommodate a foreign government who might purchase Lockheed's products and services in the future," one L-3 pleading stated.That pleading also claimed that the e-mails L-3 discovered after the Atlanta trial showed that Lockheed executives who testified at the trial "knew that the sham… [read post]
  No, no… not:  Can the two be distinguished in some superficial, fig-leafy sort of way? [read post]
2 Jun 2016, 4:18 pm by INFORRM
As Gallagher’s conduct vividly demonstrates, IPSO is simply a fig-leaf, an elaborate but cynical show of regulation behind which powerful papers remain free to behave as they wish. [read post]
24 Jan 2012, 7:43 pm
First, the specification included the following statement in its "Detailed description of the preferred embodiment(s)" section: "Although illustrated as a wide area network [in FIG. 1], it should be appreciated that the communications medium could take a variety of other forms, for example, a local area network, a satellite communications network, a commercial value added network (VAN) ordinary telephone lines, or private leased lines. [read post]
12 Sep 2012, 2:54 am by Charon QC
[B]  In support of this I am able to certify  that the cause of death was laughing As an after thought to the extraordinary evening I had last night when a doctor and a solicitor broke into my rooms in Bloomsbury, unasked, to  declare  me dead -  I was able to resume my life and took the opportunity to ‘google death by laughing’ I read this on a website: “In the third century BC, Greek philosopher Chrysippus died of out-of-control laughter after he gave his… [read post]
27 Jan 2009, 3:59 am
While it is true that the President was elected by the people (or, in some cases, by just enough people to win the Electoral College), the Senate should still look closely at the views of the people whom the President appoints, precisely because those appointees were unknown to voters at the time of the election.Moreover, under the current norms, policy differences are often simply hidden under a fig leaf of concern about some non-substantive violation. [read post]
2 Jan 2022, 4:38 pm by InhouseBlog
Associate Counsel, Product at Compass (New York, NY) on January 14, 2022 Technology Counsel at Compass (New York, NY) on January 14, 2022 Senior Trial Attorney - Garden City (Remote) at Allstate (Garden City, NY) on January 14, 2022 … [read post]
17 Mar 2010, 8:45 am by Ann Bartow
The risk that states will cite the risk of commodification as a fig leaf for hostility to the underlying “product,” so to speak — which might be present if an anti-commodification rationale were advanced to justify bans on other types of advertising — is minimal here. [read post]
14 Jun 2014, 6:12 am by Jack Goldsmith
  It appears that intervention in Iraq would go even further, for it has neither the cover of the Security Council or NATO, nor the fig leaf of upholding the international prohibition on chemical weapons that the administration invoked in Syria. [read post]
16 Nov 2013, 11:30 am by Charon QC
[B]  In support of this I am able to certify  that the cause of death was laughing As an after thought to the extraordinary evening I had last night when a doctor and a solicitor broke into my rooms in Bloomsbury, unasked, to  declare  me dead -  I was able to resume my life and took the opportunity to ‘google death by laughing’ I read this on a website: “In the third century BC, Greek philosopher Chrysippus died of out-of-control laughter after… [read post]
20 Mar 2011, 12:13 pm
 The Blair/Bush argument for the invasion's legality was very weak (as I noted at the time), but it was enough of a fig-leaf to provide some legal cover for the Iraq invasion. [read post]
28 Mar 2009, 4:40 pm
B.J. 1, 23 fig.2 (2007) (offering a running estimated grant rate of 59%-71% from 2000 through 2005). n22. [read post]