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Appeals to the City Council now are based only specific points raised by the appellant.
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Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Mar. 2025
Running Scared Another prominent and seemingly novel theme in Coca-Cola’s appellant brief is its allegation that the IRS selectively targeted supply points that had no recourse to mutual agreement procedures under a treaty.
—Ryan Finley, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025
The plaintiffs in the Canna Provisions case argued in their appellant briefs to the First Circuit that this is no longer the case.
—Zack Huffman, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
However, developer representatives and the city’s outside counsel on housing issues, Barbara Kautz, said the appellants did not appear to have met the denial standards required under state law.
—Barbara Henry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Feb. 2025
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Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Mar. 2025
Running Scared Another prominent and seemingly novel theme in Coca-Cola’s appellant brief is its allegation that the IRS selectively targeted supply points that had no recourse to mutual agreement procedures under a treaty.
—Ryan Finley, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025
The plaintiffs in the Canna Provisions case argued in their appellant briefs to the First Circuit that this is no longer the case.
—Zack Huffman, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
However, developer representatives and the city’s outside counsel on housing issues, Barbara Kautz, said the appellants did not appear to have met the denial standards required under state law.
—Barbara Henry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for appellant
petitioner
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If not for our conclusion that jurisdiction lies in the Eastern District of Virginia, that deliberate choice would have deprived the petitioner of any meaningful opportunity to contest his detention prior to removal to a distant jurisdiction.—
James Bickerton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 July 2025
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The Hamilton County Board of Elections late Friday certified that petitioners had collected enough valid signatures for the November ballot, according to Raquel Burgos, deputy director of the Hamilton County Board of Elections.—
Sydney Franklin,
The Enquirer,
2 July 2025
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