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Slow opening day for Supreme Court
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published October 3, 2006
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court began its annual term Monday, but this year the first Monday of the session fell on the Jewish holiday Yom Kippur and two of the nine justices were absent. Because of the holiday, the holiest on the Jewish calendar, the court session was brief. The court swore in new lawyers and issued an 86-page list made up almost entirely of cases the justices declined to consider. Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer, who are Jewish, were observing the holiday and were not on hand for the term's opening session. The justices will hear oral arguments in two cases today. In the first, the justices will weigh when immigrants convicted of crimes may be deported; in the second, they will consider whether to reinstate a death penalty in the California case of a man convicted of killing a 19-year-old woman during a burglary.
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