In February, a City Hall aide was struck by a car early one Sunday morning and fell into a coma, ordinarily an emergency that would prompt a mayoral visit.
As a result, the positive law can at best determine who is to decide whether there is an emergency that requires a wholesale suspension of the law.
The president declared an emergency, that was a critical legal thing that opened the door to moving everything into the area where it had to be staged.
Midwives can and do perform episiotomies in certain cases – when, for example, there is an emergency that requires a rapid delivery – but do not usually perform them unnecessarily.
When a child with autism sits alone in a school lunchroom day after day, that child's intense suffering is an emergency that must be addressed.
In an emergency, that was probably justified.
Acute mental illness is an emergency that needs responsive care.
Nadal called Wimbledon an "emergency" that required him to play.
But this remains an emergency that has only temporarily abated.
"There is no sense that this is an emergency that is pulling people together.
