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Judges and Judiciary

Dec. 7, 2005

Asylum Case Illustrates 9th Circuit's Ideological Divide

SAN FRANCISCO - A severely disabled newborn who was tossed into the trash after his caretakers at a Russian state hospital mangled his delivery has become a poster boy for the latest ideological split on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

By Itir Yakar
Daily Journal Staff Writer
        A severely disabled newborn who was tossed into the trash after his caretakers at a Russian state hospital mangled his delivery has become a poster boy for the latest ideological split on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
        A three-judge panel led by liberal icon Stephen Rein...

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