Word: appeals
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...George W. Bush's lawyers not only got in on that one but headed all the way to Atlanta and told the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that they plan to appeal Monday's decision by a federal judge that the hand counts could go forward...
...neither man would have made his statement without a little legal confidence. Gore went out armed with Wednesday's Florida Supreme Court decision declaring the hand counts legal. (Bush's lawyers have taken that to federal appeals court in Atlanta, and it probably won't stop there.) And Bush had the curt statement of Harris, who is turning into his personal Janet Reno, to lean on. Harris held a 9:30 p.m. press conference to declare that she had duly considered the three counties' appeal to have their manual counts included in the official tally, and had found them decidedly...
...Bush camp is still looking to stop them. They will go ahead with an appeal of the decision they lost Monday morning and ask an appellate panel for another temporary injunction against the counts. For them, it's worth a shot...
...Gore campaign says it won the ruling, based on its reading of the word "arbitrarily." With Volusia County standing in for them appeal-wise in the Florida Supreme Court over the 5 p.m. certification deadline, the message at 2:15 p.m. to eager counties from former secretary of state Warren Christopher and antitrust bigwig David Boies was, go ahead with the hand recounts. If results come in late, Boies said, Florida secretary of state Katherine Harris "has a duty to accept those reports unless she has a good reason not to." Needless to say, the Gore camp does...
...Bush camp, a welcome surprise. The lawyers are headed down the block to the Florida State Supreme Court for an appeal after Leon County Circuit Judge Terry Lewis ended a long Tuesday morning of suspense and upheld Secretary of State Katherine Harris's 5 p.m. deadline for certifying county vote tallies in the Florida election...