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When the first case was announced, the authorities urged people not to panic, assuring them of heightened surveillance at airports and border crossings.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
When the Supreme Court returns for its new term on Monday, the first case it will hear is Suncor Energy v.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
This is not the first case in which a surrogate has refused to terminate a pregnancy after the intended parents learned that the fetus had serious birth defects.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
It is believed to be the first case of a European country bringing sanctions-violation charges against the captain, rather than targeting the vessel or its owners.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
The Neylan board’s first case involved a former Los Alamos chemist named Robert Hurley, who had fallen under suspicion because his Latvian-born wife purportedly had leftist sympathies.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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