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Seizures have previously been reported in patients receiving SSZ, often in the setting of other clinical manifestations of toxicity [ 31 41 42 ] . Although a brain biopsy would be needed to prove our hypotheses, there is a precedent for other systemic granulomatous disorders such as sarcoidosis leading to CNS granuloma formation and seizures [ 43 44 ] . Fortunately, this patient has remained stable with no evidence of a progressive neurological disorder 7 months after presentation.
Liberal feminists (myself included, I'm sorry to say) were so eager to "educate the public" about sexual harassment, to say nothing of wanting to get rid of an anti-abortion Supreme Court candidate, that they were willing to overlook the frightening precedent being set.
Lawyers are mad folk in general, but their madness crescendos, according to Professor Mellinkoff, in their “consuming passion for precedent .’ Mesmerized by the “ritual phrase’ stare decisis , they delve into that shelf-devouring monster of confusion known as Words and Phrases and come forth with “language that the profession accepts as precedent,’ thus investing such terms as accident and proximate cause with a false precision.
But judges have both the motive and the opportunity to contort tradition and precedent in ways that render outcomes illogical and un predictable.
The most popular explanation is that ofay is pig Latin for foe . But there is simply no tradition or precedent in Afro-American culture for the use of pig Latin.
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