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But he has since warmed himself with black coffee ; a vivid sun now cuts the chill ; and the long wait for work has yet to dampen his naturally buoyant disposition.At 8:45 a.m ., a minivan pulls off Route 1 and rolls slowly through the L-shaped parking lot of the 7-Eleven , which anchors one corner of a bustling intersection flanked by boxy stores . But they confirmed that prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo intended to present his first cases to judges in February.Sudan is not a party to the statute that governs the International Criminal Court , and the court could only intervene if the government was refusing to investigate , al-Mardi said . The court , which last year rejected a challenge to a similar Alabama law , denied the appeal without any comment.The justices rejected an appeal brought by Jonas and Tiffany Eklund , who contended that the Byron Union School District , east of San Francisco , violated constitutional guarantees separating church and state when it required students in a world history class to read pages from the opening chapter of the Koran and study Islam 's Five Pillars of Faith in a unit on Muslim culture . " When the court takes up the federal abortion law , it will be considering a statute that was passed by a large majority in Congress and signed by Bush in 2003 - - and then struck down by every lower federal court that has considered it.The lower courts ruled that the law is incompatible with a 5 to 4 ruling by the Supreme Court in 2000 that held that a similar state law , from Nebraska , was unconstitutional.In that case , known as Stenberg v. Carhart , the court said the statute could be read to prohibit other procedures and lacked an exception to protect a mother 's health , creating an " undue burden " on the right to abortion first recognized in Roe.The Republican-controlled Congress included an exception to save a mother 's life . Stevens said in December that he respected the court 's decision that found flag burning to be protected free speech , even though he was on the losing side of that case more than a decade ago.And , Hutchinson said , " Justice Roberts , in my view , is trying to put a human face on the court . In 2005 , the United States deported about 77,000 immigrants with criminal records , of whom about 9.5 percent had arrests for drug possession , according to the Justice Department.A Justice Department lawyer , Edwin S. Kneedler , said the court should read the statute to require deportation for felony state drug-possession convictions . Some of the other more important minerals that are produced are copper , lead , zinc , uranium , manganese , gold , silver , and tungsten . Now that the painful and bitter chapter is closed , and the school board has come up with its own plan to make sure the schools remain racially diverse , Louisville could find itself under federal court order to stop . " [ I ] t must give you pause that your analysis is of a term , ' drug-trafficking crime ' or ' illicit trafficking , ' and your theory leads to the conclusion that simple possession equates with drug trafficking , " Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. said.Kneedler replied that " a lot of state statutes dealing with drugs do not , are not patterned directly after the federal statute , and there is no reason why Congress would have insisted that they do so in order for this statute to operate sensibly .