The Supreme Court could also sidestep or defer consideration of the case.
At the same time, though, the committee announced that it had agreed to a request from the Justice Department "to defer consideration of this matter" for the time being.
One possible explanation is that waiting for the government's brief might have required the court to defer consideration of the case for several months, meaning that a grant of review would have come too late for the case to be scheduled for argument during the current term.
The Palestinian foreign minister, Riad Malki, said accepting such an offer would undermine the Palestinian Authority when Mr. Abbas had already hurt his standing among Arabs by agreeing to defer consideration of a United Nations report detailing evidence of possible war crimes by both the Israelis and Palestinian militants in Gaza last winter.
The judge also directed that the agency's general counsel promptly furnish copies of his order and his July ruling to the agency's board, "to ensure that the board is fully informed of the potential consequences" of a decision to defer consideration of a new policy until after the stay expires in two weeks.
I will defer consideration of responses to the first argument type until section 4 below, which focuses on issues of the nature of evolution and natural selection – topics in philosophy of biology.
On Monday, Louisiana House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Joel Robideaux, a Lafayette Republican, acknowledged that the support was not there, saying that unless the authors insist, "we should indefinitely defer consideration of these bills".
"Many of the points of this finding relate to the FBI's investigative efforts on the Saudi intelligence presence in the United States and of Saudi officials' contacts with terrorists in the country, and, as such, the [CIA's] Office of Inspector General OIGG) 9/11 Review Team defers consideration of these to the Department of Justice and FBI," the declassified inspector general's report says.
Federal officials propose listing the wolverine as threatened under the Endangered Species Act after repeatedly deferring its consideration.
Today the Justice Department asked the Court of Appeals, which has been sympathetic to Microsoft's legal arguments in the past, to "defer all consideration" of the company's appeal.
He said he felt "overwhelmingly positive, very appreciative that the committee has not listed the reef in danger and has deferred its consideration for another 12 months".
