FOR THE RECORD - Nov. 17, 2009
Torture suit: An Oct. 28 article in Section A about the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals voting to rehear en banc the extraordinary-rendition case of Mohamed vs. Jeppesen DataPlan Inc. said that the published order “was unusual in its naming of judges who didn’t take part in the vote, including Jay S. Bybee, the former Bush administration lawyer who wrote so-called torture memos.” In fact, though judges recuse themselves in only a small fraction of such votes, they are always identified, said David Madden, assistant circuit executive.
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