diff --git a/beautiful-racket-lib/br/define.rkt b/beautiful-racket-lib/br/define.rkt
index 157ebe3..396faf8 100644
--- a/beautiful-racket-lib/br/define.rkt
+++ b/beautiful-racket-lib/br/define.rkt
@@ -141,8 +141,6 @@
     [(_ id:id leading-pat:expr ... else-pat:else-clause trailing-pat0:expr trailing-pat:expr ...)
      (raise-syntax-error 'define-macro-cases "`else` clause must be last" (syntax->datum #'id))]
     [(_ id:id (pat:expr . result-exprs:expr) ... else-clause:else-clause)
-     (unless (all-...-follow-wildcards #'(pat ...))
-       (raise-syntax-error 'define-macro-cases "found ellipses after non-wildcard variable" (syntax->datum stx)))
      (with-syntax ([(BOUND-LITS UNBOUND-LITS)
                     (generate-bound-and-unbound-literals #'(pat ...) #:treat-as-bound #'id)])
        #'(define-macro id
diff --git a/beautiful-racket-lib/br/private/generate-literals.rkt b/beautiful-racket-lib/br/private/generate-literals.rkt
index 3e262c4..40b3ea0 100644
--- a/beautiful-racket-lib/br/private/generate-literals.rkt
+++ b/beautiful-racket-lib/br/private/generate-literals.rkt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #lang racket/base
 (require "syntax-flatten.rkt" racket/list)
-(provide all-...-follow-wildcards generate-literals generate-bound-and-unbound-literals)
+(provide generate-literals generate-bound-and-unbound-literals)
 
 (define (literal-identifier? pat-datum)
   (and (symbol? pat-datum)
@@ -9,10 +9,6 @@
          (or (not (regexp-match #rx"[A-Z]" pat-str)) ; either doesn't contain at least one uppercase letter ...
              (not (equal? (string-upcase pat-str) pat-str)))))) ;...  or doesn't contain all uppercase letters
 
-(define (wildcard-identifier? pat-datum)
-  (and (symbol? pat-datum)
-       (not (literal-identifier? pat-datum))
-       (not (memq pat-datum '(... _)))))
 
 ;; generate literals for any symbols that are not ... or _ and not IN_CAPS
 (define (generate-literals pats)
@@ -21,6 +17,7 @@
               #:when (literal-identifier? pat-datum))
              pat-arg))
 
+
 (define (generate-bound-and-unbound-literals pats #:treat-as-bound [bound-id #f])
   (define literals (generate-literals pats))
   (define-values (bound-literals unbound-literals)
@@ -30,34 +27,4 @@
   ;; `syntax-parse` crabs if there are any duplicate ids, so remove them
   (map (λ (ids) (remove-duplicates ids bound-identifier=?)) (list bound-literals unbound-literals)))
 
-(define (all-...-follow-wildcards pats)
-  (define prev-datum (box #f))
-  (and
-   (for*/and ([pat-arg (in-list (syntax-flatten pats))]
-              [pat-datum (in-value (syntax->datum pat-arg))])
-             ;; OK if there's no previous datum,
-             (and
-              (when (eq? pat-datum '...)
-                (wildcard-identifier? (unbox prev-datum)))
-              (set-box! prev-datum pat-datum)))
-   #true))
-
-(module+ test
-  (require rackunit)
-  (check-equal? (map syntax->datum (generate-literals #'(foo 42 BAR _ (... ...) bar <=> 3Bar 3bar))) '(foo bar <=> 3Bar 3bar))
-
-  (test-case "wildcard-identifier?"
-             (check-true (wildcard-identifier? 'FOO))
-             (check-true (wildcard-identifier? 'TOPPING))
-
-             (check-false (wildcard-identifier? 'piZZa))
-             (check-false (wildcard-identifier? 'please)))
-
-  (test-case "all-...-follow-wildcards"
-             (check-true (all-...-follow-wildcards #'()))
-             (check-true (all-...-follow-wildcards (datum->syntax #f '(a b))))
-             (check-true (all-...-follow-wildcards (datum->syntax #f '(a b C ...))))
 
-             (check-false (all-...-follow-wildcards (datum->syntax #f '(...))))
-             (check-false (all-...-follow-wildcards (datum->syntax #f '(a ...))))
-             (check-false (all-...-follow-wildcards (datum->syntax #f '(A ... b ...))))))