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Judges and Judiciary

Nov. 6, 1998

Keeping a Political Bargain

SAN FRANCISCO - Holding to her end of a unique political swap, Judge Betty Binns Fletcher of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has assumed senior status as part a political bargain that cleared enough Republican opposition to allow her son William A. Fletcher to join the same court.

By Pamela A. MacLean
Daily Journal Staff Writer
        SAN FRANCISCO - Holding to her end of a unique political swap, Judge Betty Binns Fletcher of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has assumed senior status as part a political bargain that cleared enough Republican opposition to allow her son William A. Fletcher to join the same court.
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