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...Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta agreed to hear a similar request by Bush, which was dismissed earlier in the week by a U.S. District Judge in Miami...
...Track One:Tuesday, one day after a federal district judge in Miami rejected the same request, the Bush campaign brought a case before the federal appeals court in Atlanta - the next step up the ladder - asking the judges to block further hand recounts on the grounds that such counts are unconstitutional. The Gore legal team has responded to the Bush team's statements in writing. And on Thursday night, each camp was busy reading through the other's assertions in order to write up rebuttals (or "supporting documents") due by 7 a.m. Friday...
...neither man would have made his statement without a little legal confidence. Gore went out armed with Wednesday's Florida Supreme Court decision declaring the hand counts legal. (Bush's lawyers have taken that to federal appeals court in Atlanta, and it probably won't stop there.) And Bush had the curt statement of Harris, who is turning into his personal Janet Reno, to lean on. Harris held a 9:30 p.m. press conference to declare that she had duly considered the three counties' appeals to have their manual counts included in the official tally, and had found them decidedly...
...That's a big loss for Katherine Harris and the Bush campaign, which was hoping to have them declared in violation of Florida law. (The federal appeals court in Atlanta has agreed to hear the case, by the way.) The Florida high court also denied Harris's request to have all election-related lawsuits consolidated in the local circuit court in Tallahassee (something else the Bush campaign wanted), but said nothing about taking the bundle on themselves, which was Warren Christopher's proffer to the Bush camp earlier in the day. (Christopher's reason for proposal may just have something...
...George W. Bush's lawyers not only got in on that one but headed all the way to Atlanta and told the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that they plan to appeal Monday's decision by a federal judge that the hand counts could go forward...