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Summary of actions Monday by the Supreme Court



By AP
06 October 2008 @ 02:29 pm ET

The Supreme Court refused Monday to hear cases in which:

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_A jury foreman read passages of the Bible to holdout jurors who subsequently voted to impose the death penalty in a Texas murder case.

_Anti-abortion activists were trying to undo a multimillion-dollar verdict for their use of "wanted" posters to identify abortion clinic doctors.

_A convicted murderer sought a requirement that jury verdicts be unanimous in all criminal cases.

_An anti-abortion group won its long legal fight to force Arizona to issue "choose life" license plates.

_Dish Network Corp. was trying to overturn a $74 million judgment for violating a patent held by TiVo Inc. involving digital video recorders.

_An ex-soldier was sentenced to five years in prison when a judge wrongly thought the law required him to serve time.

_Former Florida professor Sami Al-Arian, once accused of being a top Palestinian terrorist, says the government is ignoring his plea agreement in trying to force him to testify to a grand jury.

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