1.   Another troubling provision would allow the attorney general to indefinitely detain legal immigrants with only very limited court review.

2.   Assistant U.S. Attorney Linda Aouate, who argued against court review of extradition decisions, was unavailable for comment.

3.   A combination of congressional action and Supreme Court precedents has set a high bar to state inmates seeking federal court review through such petitions.

4.   A court review of the dispute would infringe on the Constitutional principle of the separation of powers by involving the judiciary in a legislative issue, the judge ruled.

5.   A petition for a writ of habeas corpus is a request by a state inmate for federal court review of the constitutionality of a conviction or sentence.

6.   A state law banning per-signature payments is under federal court review.

7.   Along with assuring independent supervision of the voting process, the reforms introduce public financing of campaigns and court review of electoral disputes.

8.   But a Minnesota state judge ordered the records disclosed last month after a court review of some of them concluded that they contained evidence of fraud and other crimes.

9.   But she said federal court review of sentences under the California law is unauthorized by past Supreme Court decisions and is also unnecessary.

10.   Congressional action and adverse Supreme Court decisions have sharply restricted the ability of state prison inmates to seek federal court review.