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  2. What is a derecho and why is it so destructive? - AOL

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    A derecho is a significant, potentially destructive weather event that is characterized as having widespread, long-lived, straight-line winds associated with a fast-moving group of severe ...

  3. Derecho - Wikipedia

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    A shelf cloud along the leading edge of a derecho in Minnesota Damage caused by a derecho in Barga, Italy. A derecho (/ ˈ d ɛ r ə tʃ oʊ /, from Spanish: derecho [deˈɾetʃo], 'straight') [1] is a widespread, long-lived, straight-line wind storm that is associated with a fast-moving group of severe thunderstorms known as a mesoscale ...

  4. Frivolous or vexatious - Wikipedia

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    "Frivolous" and "vexatious" generally mean different things, however both are typically grouped together as they relate to the same basic concept of a claim or complaint (or a series of many) not being brought in good faith: A "frivolous" claim or complaint is one that has no serious purpose or value. Often a frivolous claim is one about a ...

  5. Ineffective assistance of counsel - Wikipedia

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    To constitute ineffective counsel, a defendant's attorney's performance must have fallen below "an objective standard of reasonableness." [5] Courts are "highly deferential," indulging a "strong presumption that counsel's conduct falls within the wide range of reasonable professional assistance."

  6. EXPLAINER: What is a derecho? - AOL

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    Multiple tornadoes and thunderstorms that struck the Great Plains and upper Midwest on Dec. 15 were the result of a rare event called a derecho, according to the National Weather Service’s Storm ...

  7. It's been 10 years since a destructive derecho tore ... - AOL

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    June 29, 2012, is a difficult day for those in and around Washington, D.C., to forget. On that day, an intense line of extremely gusty thunderstorms taught millions of people a new word: derecho.

  8. Declaratory judgment - Wikipedia

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    The filing of a declaratory judgment lawsuit can follow the sending by one party of a cease-and-desist letter to another party. [6] A party contemplating sending such a letter risks that the recipient, or a party related to the recipient (i.e. such as a customer or supplier), may file for a declaratory judgment in their own jurisdiction, or sue for minor damages in the law of unjustified threats.

  9. The term 'derecho' disappeared for nearly a century. They ...

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    The National Weather Service in Sioux Falls classified the storm system as a derecho — a meteorological phenomenon not centered around South Dakota since June 2020, when a ... The term 'derecho ...