Although this is indeed a determination for the executive branch to make, we are concerned that the executive branch has developed a practice of bypassing traditional checks and balances and treating these determinations as dispositive in all cases.
These built-in effects, while not necessarily large or dispositive in all cases, render the starting point for our analysis of vertical mergers more challenging than horizontal mergers.
"Accordingly, absent the receipt of significant derogatory information indicating a serious threat to public safety and welfare, lawful permanent resident status will be a dispositive factor in our case-by-case determinations".
On Monday, DHS secretary John Kelly "deemed the entry of lawful permanent residents to be in the national interest... absent the receipt of significant derogatory information indicating serious threat to public safety and welfare, will be a dispositive factor in our case-by-case determinations".
"The dispositive difference between this case and Geier — indeed, the only difference — is the majority's 'psychoanalysis' of the regulators," Justice Thomas wrote.
I admit that it is no more dispositive than Shiller's case, but at least it's some circumstantial evidence.
Iowa, despite record hype, won't be dispositive; the major campaign event this week is the president's State of the Union address.
When you see a story like this, it's also important to remember that the percentage of cases for which DNA testing is dispositive of guilt is very small.
That would seem to be quite dispositive, and yet there are hints in the Wisconsin case of problems to come for hate-crime laws — hints that their sponsors may be collectively shooting themselves in the foot.
Still, without ever misstating anything, "Good Night, and Good Luck" leaves you with the impression that Murrow was an early, and the dispositive, attacker of McCarthy, and that isn't exactly the case.
