Word: cass
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...seemed clear at oral argument in the first round that the Justices were split on partisan grounds. "The most worrisome thing," says University of Chicago law professor Cass Sunstein, "was that the conservatives just gave Gore's lawyer a hard time, and vice versa." And the curt order the court issued Saturday showed the rift is still there. The dissenters issued a stern rebuke to the majority. By stopping the recount, Justice Stevens wrote for all four dissenters, the majority was abandoning its "venerable rules," including the well-established principle of deferring to state courts on questions of state...
...Florida Supremes are back to being the veep's last best shot at the White House after Leon County court spokesman Terre Cass, at 2:15 p.m., finally delivered twin rulings from judges Terry Lewis and Nikki Clark on the Martin County and Seminole County absentee ballot application cases. The punishment, said the judges, didn't fit the crime...
...Despite irregularities in the requests for ballots, neither the sanctity of the ballots nor the integrity of the ballots have been compromised," Cass read as whoops went up from presumably Republican onlookers. "All relief requested by the defendants have been denied...
...Friday Score a very big one for George W. Bush - so far, the midnight deadline still holds. In a ruling relayed at 10:05 a.m. by court employee Terre Cass to a salivating roomful of reporters, Leon County circuit judge Terry Lewis ruled that Florida secretary of state Katherine Harris did right. And this decision gives Al Gore's team little opportunity to celebrate...
...friend has recently bequeathed me an old ZB Custom pedal steel, and I figure, what better time to tackle my old nemesis. It turns out my gift guitar was abused as a young instrument, and I send it to Nashville to be worked on by veteran steel repairman Mike Cass, a classic tinkerer in the Bud Isaacs mode, who has a few extra metal rods custom-made for me for what seems like a ridiculously low price. Mike gives me detailed explanations regarding the butterfly nuts and the torque of the rods underneath, which I pretend to understand, but even...