71.   Now a federal appeals judge would hear them out.

72.   On Tuesday, the appeals judges responded in kind, accusing Jackson of blatantly violating a judicial canon that restricts judges from commenting about pending cases.

73.   One prominent appeals court judge acknowledged in an interview that he was interested in hiring people as clerks who share his conservative philosophy.

74.   One panel of appeals judges questioned his impartiality in the case of a drug offender who was given a short sentence because his wife was trying to conceive.

75.   President Bill Clinton made such a recess appointment a year ago, naming an appeals court judge whose nomination Republicans had stalled.

76.   Rodney Davis, a California appeals judge in Sacramento, was also persuaded.

77.   Ronald Gould presents impressive credentials in his bid to become a federal appeals court judge.

78.   Richard Thornburgh as attorney general picked Freeh to lead the prosecution of mail bombing murders of a federal appeals judge and a civil rights lawyer.

79.   Reaching a decision has been agonizingly slow for the appeals court judges, who had initially hoped to resolve the case quickly.

80.   School board President John Rios accused the appeals court judges of buying into inaccurate perceptions of the school board.