The firm is to carry out a review of its mines and while it refused to rule out mine closure, it said there would be no job losses.

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The Federal Circuit declined an en banc review of that decision, and the Supreme Court refused to hear the Williams case.

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The court refused a call for a judicial review of a ban by a school district on the placing of the ten commandments on a fence at school baseball field in Downey, California.

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