Politicians from both parties say the case, Federal Election Commission v. Colorado Republican Federal Campaign Committee, No. 00-191, does not matter much under present circumstances.

One question obviously on the justices' minds during the first argument was whether the case still mattered.

You are either unavoidably annihilated (in which case, nothing matters one way or the other) or lose the opportunity of eternal happiness.

But the case matters most of all because it shows how Israel wounds itself by its continued occupation of land inhabited by another people.

Probably very few other cases matter as much.

Use lower case when case doesn't matter.

The case of plagiarism mentioned in this letter is not now remembered, and does not matter, but it furnished a text for Mark Twain, whose remarks on the subject in general are eminently worth while.

The point is, case doesn't matter.

I am Brazilian but I am not blinded in defence of all things Brazilian - that is a recipe for failure unless you want to become some sort of North Korea in which case whatever happens around you does not matter anyway.