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It's a rarely used, dusty corner of the Supreme Court's jurisdiction. And on Monday the Court decided to leave it undisturbed, rejecting a request by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit to resolve a question that could...
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"Nation's high court rejects Seale appeal"
How Appealing —
... Monitor reports that "Supreme Court declines to hear civil-rights era KKK case; The Supreme Court refuses to hear a case on whether the federal statute of limitations applies to a 1964 Ku Klux Klan kidnap-murder; That leaves the issue unresolved for future civil-rights era cases."
Bill Mears of CNN.com reports that "Justices reject appeal in 1964 kidnapping case related to civil rights."
And at "The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times," Tony Mauro has a post titled "Supreme Court Rejects 5th Circuit Plea in Kidnap Case."
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... At the BLT, Tony Mauro covers the Court’s decision not to rule on the question – certified to it by the Fifth Circuit – of which statute of limitations applies to decades-old racially motivated capital crimes. Mauro quotes Mayer Brown’s Stephen Shapiro, who posits that the Court may have declined to take up the question now because the case is still interlocutory and “a dozen other issues” remain pending. ...
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