Word: circuit
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Throwing out the ballots didn't seem fair to either of the two Leon County circuit court judges who heard the cases, and overturning their decisions didn't seem fair to the Florida Supreme Court...
...Gore to win, he needs to survive a bewildering legal obstacle course--not just the U.S. Supreme Court but also the Florida Supremes, Judge N. Sanders Sauls' circuit courtroom, the Florida legislature and even the U.S. Congress. (Of course, there's a chance a judge will throw out all those absentee ballots in Seminole County, which would make the ride a whole lot easier.) If Gore crashes anywhere along the road--or simply moves too slowly--he loses the race. --By Andrew Goldstein...
...week ago, Leon County circuit court judge N. Sanders Sauls was going about his business, hearing domestic-violence cases in nearby Wakulla County, when a computer randomly assigned him a colossal headache: the presidential-election contest that has since brought the eyes of the world into Sauls' courtroom. When reporters started scrambling to profile him, the judge didn't even have a resume to give them. Instead, he handed out a list of friends who could vouch for him. Among his hunting buddies: Dexter Douglass, the courtly Floridian who is one of Gore's lead lawyers. Douglass says he gets...
...court clerk, his mother a tax collector. In high school, he was "most likely to succeed," "friendliest" and "most intellectual." After graduating from F.S.U. and then the University of Florida's law school, he worked as a prosecutor and a federal bankruptcy judge before being appointed to the circuit court in 1989 by Republican Governor Bob Martinez. Two events shaped Sauls' life: the 1993 death of his 16-year-old daughter in a car accident, and a local scandal in 1998, when the state supreme court removed him as the circuit's chief judge for his "continuing disruption...
...recount does recommence." Souter pointed out that without an objective standard, some voters might be disenfranchised, which would violate the "equal protection" clause of the Constitution. "Don't we need a standard," the Justice demanded? Olson agreed that should the high court remand the case to the Florida Circuit Courts and Secretary of State Katherine Harris, he would accept any ensuing standards. Perhaps sensing Olson's fatigue, Justice Scalia jumped in with a rhetorical question designed to clarify Olson's position on the admissibility of recounts, to which the Bush attorney replied, gratefully, "You're absolutely right, your honor...