| Instead, the court dismissed the case as improvidently granted, probably because it was beset with procedural difficulties. |
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| If Scott was not a U. S. citizen, he could not sue in federal court, and the case would therefore have been improvidently granted. |
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| Many observers believed that this technical point was raised only to give the justices an excuse to dismiss the case as improvidently accepted and thus avoid a ruling. |
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| Four were decided with unsigned opinions, two cases affirmed by an equally divided Court, and two cases were dismissed as improvidently granted. |
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