31.   Before the hearing started today, Jett assailed the administrative-law process that allows an SEC official, rather than a jury, to decide his case.

32.   A Berlin court will decide the case next month.

33.   A court will decide the case.

34.   A technical DNA hearing could bore jurors, potentially steering them to other issues on which to decide the case.

35.   Advocates of legalizing assisted suicide said the sentence showed that cases were being decided by their idiosyncrasies and that the laws should be made more uniform.

36.   After two requests failed to get a response, the agency decided the case solely on the evidence before it, without a response from Kaiser, Valandra said.

37.   Both her lawyer and the attorney for Robert Wendland filed papers with the court yesterday urging the justices to decide the case.

38.   But it was not clear by the end of the hour-long argument that the court would easily agree on a rationale for deciding the case.

39.   But last Wednesday, U.S. District Court Judge Norman K. Moon said he lacks jurisdiction to decide the case because it raised no constitutional issue.

40.   But once they start, their case could be decided within a year, including appeals.