Opening Word document…

There seems to be a decent amount of these which makes sense if significant is close to “important”

Leighton 19, judge United States District Court for the Western District of Washington. (Ronald B., Decided; February 20, 2019, Opinion in Perfect Co. v. Adaptics Ltd., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 26961, *32-33. Lexis accessed online via KU libraries)

Adaptics argues that its new construction is necessary because Perfect's previous construction introduces an improper intent requirement by using the word "predetermined." Adaptics also contends that Perfect's construction improperly focuses on the goal of data monitoring instead of the data monitoring itself. Perfect responds that its construction is superior because it accounts for the specification's [*33] statement that "the user can adjust the period of inactivity." By ignoring this important description of the term in the specification, Perfect contends that Adaptics' construction falls short. Finally, Perfect points out that Adaptics' use of the word "significantly" introduces uncertainty.

Toth 18, judge United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims. (Joseph L., August 3, 2018, Decided, Opinion in Yarbrough v. Wilkie, 2018 U.S. App. Vet. Claims LEXIS 1027, *7-8. Lexis accessed online via KU libraries)

The examiner's use of the word "significantly" was vague and amounted to little more than an unsupported conclusion. The opinion failed to clearly indicate whether Mr. Yarbrough's documented 45-degree range of motion encompassed his functional loss due to pain, or whether that range merely reflected impeded flexion. Leaving this question open thwarted the Board's ability to rate Mr. Yarbrough in a way that reflected his full disability picture. As such, the opinion was inadequate and the Board clearly erred by relying on it. See Nieves-Rodriguez v. Peake, 22 Vet.App. 295, 304 (2008) ( the measure of any medical opinion is its ability to fully inform the Board). The Board should have returned the report and asked the examiner to clarify what he meant by "significantly" [*8] and to put the observed functional loss in terms of additional lost range of motion.

Fatzer 65, justice of the Kansas Supreme Court. (Harold R., March 1, 1965, Opinion Filed, Opinion in Harris v. Anderson, 194 Kan. 302, 309-310. Lexis accessed online via KU libraries)

We are not enlightened by the word "significantly." Does it mean 20, 30, 40, or how many seats? If the word was used to mean that the number of seats in the legislative body being apportioned must exceed the number of [***19] counties by such number that the vote of any citizen in any district created by the apportionment is approximately equal in weight to that of any other citizen in the state, then it is evident that the 20 seats apportioned to the more populous Kansas counties in accordance with the method of equal proportions are insufficient in number to provide equal-populated districts in accordance with the federal constitutional requisite. This is indicated by the fact that the 63 least populated counties, being the majority necessary to enact legislation, are controlled [*310] by 411,792 people, or approximately 19 percent of the state's total population, while the four largest counties alone contain 827,123 people, or approximately 38 percent of the state's total population, and are apportioned only 23 seats on both a geographical and population basis.

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