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Credit Pacific Service Union The Supreme Court passed up a chance Monday to get into the delicate issue of judicial recusals in a case that questioned the impartiality of a California judge. An appeals court had said that the judge appeared to be biased against anti-logging protesters and reassigned the demonstrators' lawsuit.

The Ten Commandments display in Kentucky was revised to include other historical documents after lower courts ruled against the county. In response to the lower court rulings, the county officials passed a resolution stating, "The judicial laws of God, as they were delivered by Moses, [should] be a rule to all the courts in this jurisdiction." While the resolution raised several Supreme Court Justices' eyebrows, it was not challenged in the case and as such, it still stands.

Credit First Service Union The protesters had sued, claiming that they were hurt when pepper spray was applied to their eyelids in 1997. They were shackled at the time, and their suit seeks to prevent police from using chemicals on nonviolent protesters.

. (AXcess News) Houston, The Utah State Supreme Court has ousted a polygamist judge from the bench, saying his relationships with three women he considers his wives are polygamy and clearly against the law, putting his judicial office into disrepute. Judge Walter Steed who presided over the Hildale Justice Court accepted the Utah Supreme Court's decision, though he stated that he was "extremely disappointed" in the court's ruling Friday.

Card Credit Mobile Service Attorneys for Humboldt County, Calif., and several lawmen had asked the Supreme Court to reinstate U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker to the case. Justices refused without comment.

However, before the Supreme Court could act on the applications, the legislature passed and the Governor signed a bill designed to overrule the decision of the Appellate Division.

Card Credit Discover Service The trial was to begin last spring when the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decided to have the case heard by another judge.

Earnings among judicial workers also vary significantly. According to the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court earned $175, 400, and the Associate Justices earned $167, 900. Federal district court judges had salaries of $136, 700 in 1998, as did judges in the Court of Federal Claims and the Court of International Trade; circuit court judges earned $145, 000 a year. Federal judges with limited jurisdiction, such as magistrates and bankruptcy court judges, had salaries of $125, 800.

Credit Public Service Union Walker had already dismissed the case once, only to have his decision overturned on appeal. He was criticized for plans to move the 2003 trial from San Francisco to a city closer to the location of the protest, which environmental activists said would result in a jury sympathetic to the law officers.

- - are seeking at least limited access to Cheney's records. They have won this right in a trial court and an appellate court. Now the Supreme Court will be the third judicial body to review the matter.

Card Credit Processing Service The recusal subject has also been up for debate at the Supreme Court. Last week, Justice Antonin Scalia rebuffed a request that he stay out of a case involving his good friend, Vice President Dick Cheney. Cheney and Scalia hunted together in Louisiana in January shortly after the court agreed to consider whether the Bush administration must release information about closed-door meetings of Cheney's energy task force.

Center Credit Service Union Congressional Democrats contend the Supreme Court should re-evaluate its recusal process, which is unique because justices decide for themselves if they will stay out of a case, and their decisions are final.

Card Credit Service Wireless The California case dates back to the fall of 1997, when there were multiple sit-ins protesting the cutting of ancient redwood trees. When demonstrators, who had chained themselves with a 25-pound steel device, would not leave, law officers applied pepper spray near their eyes. Television coverage of the arrests, and of the protesters' screams of pain, was broadcast nationally.

Credit Security Service Union The case is Humboldt County v. Headwaters Forest Defense, 03-1032.

Credit Report Service Also Monday, the Supreme Court agreed to consider a health funding dispute between the government and two Indian tribes, a case with about $100 million at stake nationwide. The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had rejected arguments that the government did not live up to promises made in contracts with the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley Reservation in Nevada. Attorneys for the tribes said the outcome will affect more than 300 tribes.

Blogspot Com Christian At issue is a law that allows the government to contract with tribes for services that would normally be provided by the government. Tribes in about 35 states have contracts for things like running hospitals, clinics or community health care programs, the court was told.

Christian Counseling Credit The cases are Cherokee Nation v. United States, 02-1472, and Thompson v. Cherokee Nation, 02-853.

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Topic: Activism

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