Whether the court now simply denies the appeal, or sends it back to the appeals court for a second look, could indicate whether, in the minds of the justices, there is any distinction between a suit against investment banks and one against an ordinary commercial vendor.
Street vendors, ordinary New Yorkers, did that.That said, the NYPD has upped its game since the 2001 attacks.
"The case was just an ordinary clash between street vendors and local public security people, but was used by a handful of people who wanted to cause trouble," Zengcheng Mayor Ye Niuping was quoted by the China Daily newspaper as saying.
In A Strangeness in My Mind, Pamuk set out to write "an epic of the city" spanning 40 years, told from the perspective of its ordinary, often forgotten, inhabitants: its street vendors, hustlers and slum dwellers.
The vendor estimates, perhaps optimistically, that an ordinary typist can reach a speed of about 30 words per minute after 10 hours.
"These ordinary people work for decades, to their deaths!" one vendor said.
Beside them were vendors for church candles and flowers, serving an ordinary population.
As the instruction set of an ordinary central processing unit (CPU), they are provided by the hardware vendor.
Several shopping centers have chased vendors away in an attempt to steer customers to indoor shops, where employees in ordinary dress serve the fritters at tables and counters, rather than from a tray at knee level, as tradition demands.
