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Supreme Court to review Texas redistricting
Dec 12 2005 10:55PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court waded into the thicket of Texas politics Monday, agreeing to review controversial redistricting that produced ballot box gains for Republicans but an ethics rebuke and criminal charges for GOP Rep. Tom DeLay.
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High Court won't block Williams execution
Dec 12 2005 9:29PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Crips gang founder Stanley Tookie Williams lost a last-ditch Supreme Court appeal that sought to stop his execution early Tuesday in California.
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Alito memo says police shooting justified
Dec 12 2005 8:35PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - While working in the Reagan administration's Justice Department in the mid-1980s, Samuel Alito argued that a police officer was justified in shooting an unarmed 15-year-old trying to avoid arrest after a burglary.
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Justices to hear workers' wage case
Dec 12 2005 11:02AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear an appeal by a Georgia floor-covering company sued by current and former employees who allege the firm hired hundreds of illegal immigrants to suppress worker wages.
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Court won't hear suit against Home Depot
Dec 12 2005 10:33AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court on Monday left Jim and Rhonda Boucher off its list of accepted cases before the holidays, refusing to hear the couple's claim that Home Depot copied their Christmas tree stand and its packaging.
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