improvidently

It is not well to spend one's symbols improvidently.

The court, saying it had "improvidently" agreed to hear the case in the first place, instead dismissed it.

"But people are trying to get royalties for patents that may have been improvidently issued.

Today, he said explicitly what his brief strongly suggested: that the court should dismiss the case as having been improvidently granted.

For my part, it was a statement that I had broken free and was finally in charge of my life, however improvidently.

This court improvidently entered a stay.

And in this way, this is a book that not only could kill a cat if improvidently dropped, but break a heart in two.

Some reviewing courts who have discretionary review may send a case back without comment other than review improvidently granted.

The result for the case of review improvidently granted is effectively the same as affirmed, but without that extra higher court stamp of approval.

To the Editor: For more than 30 years the board feet of Federal timber cut each year has improvidently and illegally exceeded the amount grown.

Certiorari dismissed as improvidently granted.

The recount was moving ahead in an "orderly fashion," Justice Breyer said, when "this court improvidently entered a stay."

When it was discovered that the judgment was not final, the writ of certiorari was dismissed as improvidently granted.

"We will aggressively defend this suit, which we believe was improvidently filed," Mr. Browde said.

Four were decided with unsigned opinions, two cases affirmed by an equally divided Court, and two cases were dismissed as improvidently granted.

"By enacting Chapter 635, those legislators who voted in favor improvidently and unconstitutionally incapacitated the Legislature from performing its duty as a representative body.

Katsura further stated that if left alone, Korea would continue to improvidently enter into agreements and treaties with other powers, which he said created the original problem.

Although certiorari had been granted, the Court dismissed it as improvidently granted; the minority argued that the question of statutory subject matter in patent law should be addressed.

In this event the writ of certiorari is "dismissed as improvidently granted" (DIG) - saying, in effect that the Court should not have accepted the case.

He had not rushed off improvidently this time, either; he had four bottles of whiskey in one saddlebag, some bullets and a good slab of bacon in another.

To give the federal government less than complete power, Hamilton argued, would be "improvidently to trust the great interests of the nation to hands which are disabled from managing them with vigor and success."

We urged him to consider that "the Attorney Generalship and the Department of Justice would be improvidently harmed if public speculation is permitted to endure any longer than is absolutely necessary."

The reason arable land is so scarce in Spain is because the people squander so much of it on their persons, and then when they die it is improvidently buried with them.

After reviewing the complex record, briefs and arguments, perhaps the court will decide to duck a decision by dismissing the case as "improvidently granted," meaning it should have never picked up the case in the first place.

A court mechanically applying a strict "separate demand" test could improvidently wind up condemning "integrations" that represent genuine improvements to software that are benign from the standpoint of consumer welfare and a competitive market.