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A federal judge asked the court-appointed board that monitors the Teamsters how it is handling charges against James P. Hoffa, reviving the possibility of a new Hoffa inquiry. U.S. District Judge David Edelstein wrote to the members of the Independent Review Board after Hoffa’s opponents complained that Hoffa hadn’t been fully investigated for alleged improprieties during his 1996 bid for the union presidency.