This exception relates to the appealability of the case. Often the very first issue before the appellate court is whether the court should hear the appeal.

We left Tan Son Nhut and checked into the Globe. Unfortunately, the hotel was all but full for the first time, and since rooms were short, our crew checked into just two suites rather than three rooms.

[T]he government of a country with 80 million people and a modernizing economy cut off nearly all access to the network and shut down cellphone service. . . . Egypt, to an unprecedented extent, pulled itself off the grid.

First and foremost, purely cross-sectional studies are trapped in what Michael Shalev (1983) has called the Swedocentric fallacy: ...