The scramble for precedent, in turn, requires lawyers to invoke a confusing quilt of rulings and phrases and footnotes from past cases, contending that "shall" differs from "must," that deadlines are not final or that the meaning of "is" is not really is.
Legal problems unrelated to Schering will prevent the parties from meeting that deadline, a Schering spokesman, Friedrich von Heyl, said on Sunday.
Or, hey, maybe it smells like the creeping sense of anxiety that sets in with the realization you're about 40 minutes away from missing that deadline.
The committee also highlighted a previous warning from BT that the deadline of delivering superfast broadband to 95% of homes and businesses by 2017 could slip to 2018 - but both a government spokesman and BT said the original target remained "on track".
But Dean Wroth and other legal experts said last night that date is far from a final deadline and that, if the United States Supreme Court does not overrule the Florida court's decision, the counting might continue beyond that deadline.
The Clippers emerged from the deadline thrilled that they'd offloaded salary and created more financial flexibility for free agency.
Several aviation lawyers said yesterday that their offices had been besieged with calls from families concerned about missing that deadline.
"We're not that far away from the deadline for the withdrawal agreement, we're very much in the space where we need legal text," he said.
In a sign of the confusion surrounding the reforms one company, Fidelity, said it had seen an increase in calls from customers in recent weeks "but these mainly come from people who believe that the deadline to access their pensions is 6 April," said a spokesperson.
Ryan backpedaled from his previous declaration that the deadline was May 17, which congressional Democrats criticized as an arbitrary and misleading date designed to forestall an emerging deal that he and some other Republicans don't like.
