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Unlike the ruling of the district court, the decision reached by the 9th Circuit will most likely not come under the review of a higher court, in this case the Supreme Court...
...9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals voted unanimously yesterday to reinstate the Oct. 7 date of the California gubernatorial recall, reversing last week’s decision issued by a three-judge panel of the same circuit...
Harvard Law School professor Einer R. Elhauge, who published an op-ed against postponing the recall in the Wall Street Journal last week, said he strongly supported the 9th Circuit’s decision yesterday. Like the court, Elhauge did not deem the much maligned voting machines a serious threat to a fair election...
Beneficial Professor of Law Charles Fried also said he approved of the 9th Circuit’s reasoning. While Fried acknowledged the possibility of electoral problems in the California recall, he argued that there was insufficient evidence that they would cause significant harm...
...from the youth of the slums that al-Sadr is recruiting his private army, the Jaish-e-Mahdi, named after a historical Shi'ite leader who disappeared in the 9th century and will, the devout believe, return one day to restore justice to the world. Although he has said his soldiers will be "armed with faith" only, al-Sadr supporters say he is recruiting special regiments made up entirely of former military men, who are being issued weapons and ammunition. Al-Sadr sacked his chief representative in Sadr City, insiders say, because the man was thought to be too religious...