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...When Clark bristled at plaintiff's lawyer Gerald Richman's closing-argument suggestion that she could put the fear of the court into future elections supervisors - "My job is not to send a message... my job is to rule in the case that's before me" - it seemed a statement that could cut both ways. Then there was the lunchtime injection of suspense: Was the situation fluid? Could one or both of these cases turn George W. Bush into what he hasn't been for 31 days now - the challenger...
...question was whether the name Harvard is prominent enough to prevent us from granting patent rights to the plaintiff," Kim Yong-sup, a judge and spokesperson for the Supreme Court, told the Associated Press yesterday. "The court decision...
...precedent which allows a looser interpretation of "contest" requirements, the circuit court decision is untenable. The Bush lawyers, on the other hand, insisted that Sauls ruled the only way he could: The Gore team, after all, did not satisfy existing standards for a recount, which require a plaintiff to prove there is "reasonable probability" that a recount will yield a changed election results...
...argued Boies in his rebuttal. In fact, precedent dictates that "reasonable probability" is the wrong standard; as long as the plaintiff proves "reasonable possibility" of a changed result, a recount must be allowed. "We have identified specific votes" that were not counted, Boies told the Justices. "There was a clear voter intent expressed on those ballots and they were not counted...
...Witness begat witness. The statistician for the plaintiff offered Clark an "alternate remedy" of 1,500-1,800 tossed votes, in case it was the "all" that bothered her about tarshing absentee ballots...