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...Napster has, in my view, about a 40 percent chance of prevailing on this issue in the appeal currently pending before the 9th Circuit," writes Harvard Professor of Law William W. Fisher in an e-mail message. "Scour believed that it could point to an even more extensive list of legitimate uses of its technology...
...decide to dismiss the case as "improvidentially granted." This neat bit of 19th-century verbiage simply means the Court has decided, for whatever reason, that it is not interested in ruling on the case. If this happens, the case bounces back to the previous court (the 11th district circuit court in Atlanta). And since those judges have already heard the case (and ruled against Bush), unless there is a new twist in the case compelling the court to revisit the arguments, Bush loses automatically. The legal focus would then revert to the Leon County courthouse, where Gore's contest...
...fourth circuit around these dorms, there is a glimmer of excitement...
...Saturday, Dec. 2 (?) Leon County Circuit Court Judge Sanders Sauls will hold a hearing to determine, among other things, whether the critical Miami-Dade undervotes should be counted. If Sauls rules against Gore, he'll merely send David Boies across the street to the Florida Supremes (Boies may be there before then, looking for an immediate start to the counting). But with all the media attention sure be lavished on the Saturday hearing, the Sunday talkies could start a new round of calls for Gore to concede...
...another room in the same courthouse, Circuit Court Judge Nikki Clark ruled in favor of Al Gore's lawyers, who are fighting to keep a challenge to Seminole County absentee ballots separate from the vice president's lawsuit contesting the election. A Democratic activist has charged Republican election workers of improperly writing in voter-registration numbers on thousands of absentee ballot requests in heavily Republican Seminole County, and wants to have all the county's 15,000 or so absentee ballots discarded from the general tally. Gore's team is wary of such an argument, which runs counter to their...