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In a brief filed last Friday, New York City's top lawyer, Michael A. Cardozo, asserted that under the District Court's rules, a new case can't be deemed "related" to a case no longer pending.
Adopting language carefully drafted to avoid terms of rejection, council members meeting at the watchdog's headquarters in The Hague on Friday decided that the request "was no longer pending ," the European official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity in line with diplomatic practice.
(De la Hoya has a couple of points against him on that score, anyway: a rape allegation, which he denied but which was settled out of court in 2001; and a $62.5 million suit in 2000 that alleged repeated violations of a restraining order filed by former Playboy Playmate Shanna Moakler, his former fiancée and the mother of his daughter. Schaefer says the suit is no longer pending).
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Longer term, pending regulatory approvals, Monsanto believes the acquisition holds the opportunity to expand the potential adoption of biotechnology traits internationally," the company said.
The same divided panel then granted a longer stay pending resolution of the appeal on the preliminary injunction, concluding that, based on their interpretation of the Norris-LaGuardia Act, they "have serious doubts that the district court had jurisdiction to enjoin the League's lockout".
They voted to change the parliament's rules, so that the opposition could no longer hold up pending laws which would augment the executive's already wide powers.
Russia first applied to join the W.T.O.'s predecessor, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, in 1993, and its application has been pending longer than that of any other member in the 153-country group.
On Saturday, in response to the posting of the article on the Web site of The New York Times, Mike Kortan, a spokesman for the F.B.I., said "it is important to emphasize" that community of interest data is "no longer being used pending the development of an appropriate oversight and approval policy, was used infrequently, and was never used for e-mail communications".
Meanwhile, the UK store closure and cost reduction programmes are being completed, with the future longer -term strategy pending the appointment of a new chief executive.
The panel is expected to decide soon thereafter to either grant a longer -term stay pending appeal of the preliminary injunction or deny it, in which case hESC research will be shut down again.
Verizon's deputy general counsel, John Thorne, also applauded the prospect of a quick ruling on the appeal, saying that it would "accomplish the same thing that a partial stay of the injunction pending a longer appeal would have accomplished, limiting Vonage's infringement during the appeal".
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The phrase "longer pending" functions as an adjective modifying a state or situation that is awaiting resolution. However, as Ludwig AI indicates, the phrasing is not standard English and can be improved for clarity.
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