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It comes with a dense appendix of the courts ' workload - - the diminishing number of cases the high court itself accepts has been much commented on in legal circles - - and with such arcane findings as " the national median time from filing of a civil case to its disposition was 8.3 months , which reflected a decline from the 9.5-month median period in 2005 . " The study did not indicate that mental training can hold off all cognitive decline permanently . The high court in this term has already reversed a 9th Circuit decision that overturned a death sentence.Dieter said the justices are " in a rather complex area of the law . " People are fearful of cognitive decline , and the idea that a small and simple intervention can have an impact is pretty compelling . " Presidents of both parties have considered this authority essential to completing good trade agreements , " Bush said in a state of the economy speech in New York . " The Supreme Court 's first decision of its young term was a swift but divided opinion upholding the death penalty for a California man who killed a young woman during a burglary more than 25 years ago.Yesterday 's 5 to 4 decision was the second time the fate of Fernando Belmontes reached the Supreme Court , and once again the justices sent it back to the California-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit , saying the appeals court had misinterpreted the high court 's rulings in overturning Belmontes 's death sentence . " Here is where Alito really takes his stand , " said Kenneth L. Manning , a political scientist at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth who has studied the voting behavior of other appellate judges.Because Supreme Court justices are free to disregard precedent , Alito 's decisions are an imperfect barometer of how he might rule if he succeeds Sandra Day O'Connor , a pivotal member of the high court . The emphasis in North Korea has been on specialized and technical education . Kester said yesterday , however , that the quarterly payments cause " major injury " to MedImmune.The case is MedImmune v. Genentech , No. 05-608 .