Appellate Practice
Oct. 5, 2005
High Court Clears the Decks for Action: Denies 1,700 Appeals
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court, without the input of newly confirmed Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., on Monday denied about 1,700 appeals that had piled up during the justices' summer break. But the court declined to act on a number of notable cases, including one involving a death-row inmate who alleges that a former Los Angeles prosecutor engaged in racial discrimination by striking potential black jurors in his 1981 murder trial.
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