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He suggested that the nomination of Judge Wynn -- an African-American with a centrist reputation -- might provide the balance he requires to permit Judge Boyle's confirmation.

"Like something out of a Russian spy novel.... Georgia Aquarium launched a wholesale attack on NMFS, accusing the Agency of 'cooking the books' to fabricate its rationale in a deliberate and conspiratorial effort to deny Georgia Aquarium's import permit," Judge Totenberg caustically wrote in her decision against the aquarium.

A supreme court ruling in 2006 said that the law did not permit judges to compel the local authority to pay for therapy.

While the guidelines permit judges some ability to tailor sentences if necessary, they still look to drug type and quantity rather than a criminal's role because they track Congress's approach.

This strict compliance doctrine has come under increasing scholarly attack, and a few places now permit judges to uphold wills containing formal defects if the proponent of the will can show the defect in question was harmless to the purposes of the will.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission permitted Judge Wagner to broaden the investigation to include whether the pipeline subsidiary showed favoritism in awarding the contract to the merchant energy unit.

Two weeks ago, in an extraordinary ceremony for a state that likes to view itself as beyond tough on crime, Gov. Rick Perry signed a bill that permitted Judge Chapman to grant bail to those who were still behind bars.

David A. Martin, a former general counsel of the immigration service, said the rule permitting judges to close proceedings probably provided an adequate legal basis for secrecy.

They did get Scopes's conviction reversed, but on a technicality that the judge, not the jury, had set his $100 fine; Tennessee judges were then permitted judges to set fines only up to $50.

A18 Court Questions 3-Strikes Law The Supreme Court heard arguments on California's "three-strikes" law, adopted by referendum in 1994, which permits judges to treat as third felonies crimes that would ordinarily be considered misdemeanors.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 — Since 2000, in a patchwork of closely fought and inconclusive decisions, the Supreme Court has been wrestling with the question of how much discretion the Constitution permits judges to exercise in criminal sentencing.