merits

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The emergency docket is different from the court’s merits docket, which is the customary path for cases to reach the Supreme Court.

From Salon • Apr. 25, 2026

Protecting democracies required "hard power", he said, while "theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications" would see the US lose ground to its adversaries.

From BBC • Apr. 24, 2026

The book’s epilogue, “Ten Lessons in Prediction,” focuses on the merits of avoiding prediction when possible, rather than how to use it better.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026

Circuit even heard the merits of the case.

From Slate • Apr. 21, 2026

Thereafter never a week went by but she brought news of this boy or that, and she and I and Nathan spent long hours trying to assess their relative merits.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya