21.   And it may want to step in to resolve the disagreement between the Ohio Supreme Court, which upheld the program, and the federal appeals court.

22.   And he is trying to do so while shaking off the bitter antitrust case, which is now before a federal appeals court.

23.   And Justice Stephen G. Breyer said Georgia was effectively seeking new grounds for dismissal of a federal appeal.

24.   And the federal appeals court agreed Wednesday to hear Republican requests to declare the manual recounts unconstitutional.

25.   And questions about the FCC rules must be challenged directly in a separate proceeding before a federal appeals court.

26.   And while the state court judges who sentence most offenders must consider the federal appeals court decision, they are not bound by it.

27.   And two days of hearings before seven federal appeals court judges last week in Washington did little to dispel that sense.

28.   Another federal appeals court upheld that ruling, and Raytech unsuccessfully appealed to the Supreme Court.

29.   Another judge mentioned as a possible choice is Joel M. Flaum, a federal appeals court judge in Chicago and a former federal prosecutor.

30.   Any appeals from those panels go directly to the Supreme Court, bypassing the federal appeals courts.