This paper deduces a modified version of the ban on extraction from conjuncts (CSC) based on the claim that conjuncts are phases, which also captures the across-the-board-movement exception and a number of other cases where extraction from conjuncts is shown to be possible (in particular, left-branch extraction in Serbo-Croatian, r-pronoun movement in Dutch, V-2 movement in German, clitic doubling in Dutch/Romance, quantifier-float in Japanese, article-incorporation in Galician, and object shift in English). Based on these cases the paper shows that the CSC holds only for successive-cyclic movement out of conjuncts, as in *Who_i did you see [t_i friends of t_i] and Sue: elements that are base-generated at the edge of a conjunct, or move there independently of successive-cyclic movement, can extract. The paper also sheds light on the ban on local wh-movement from SpecTP to SpecCP which is argued to require a return to split IP: it is shown that subjects undergoing wh-movement cannot move to the highest projection in the split IP even when the next step of movement is not SpecCP.