Chief justice has cancer, will return
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Chief Justice William Rehnquist has thyroid cancer, but that won&#39;t stop him from returning to the bench next week for potential rulings that could again determine the presidential election, court officials said.
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WASHINGTON - Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist will be absent from the Supreme Court on Monday, beginning a sixth week of missed work caused by thyroid cancer.
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WILLIAM Rehnquist, the 80-year-old chief justice of the US Supreme Court, is not well. He entered Bethesda Naval Hospital and had surgery for thyroid cancer.
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Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist was released from the hospital Friday and is recovering from treatment for thyroid cancer.
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US Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist has been diagnosed with thyroid cancer, officials announced Monday. Rehnquist, 80, the second-oldest man to preside over the country&#39;s highest court was admitted to Maryland&#39;s
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Nine days after surgery for thyroid cancer, ailing Chief Justice William Rehnquist was not on the bench when the Supreme Court convened Monday, one of several signs that his illness is more serious than first indicated.
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SUPREME COURT Chief Justice William Rehnquist won&#39;t be voting in some of the Supreme Court cases he missed for cancer treatment this fall.
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Monday's announcement that Chief Justice William Rehnquist is being treated for thyroid cancer was a reminder of one man's mortality - and of how a single vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court could change the dynamics of the divided panel.
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The news that a Supreme Court justice is being treated for cancer should remind voters of a president&#39;s power to shape the high court.
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Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, suffering from thyroid cancer and absent from the bench for seven weeks, still plans to preside at President Bush's inauguration on Jan. 20, a Supreme Court spokeswoman said Friday.
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US Chief Justice William Rehnquist, undergoing radiation and chemotherapy for thyroid cancer, said he was unable to return to work at the Supreme Court on Monday as he had initially hoped.
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Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist expects to be on the bench when the US Supreme Court convenes again on Monday, in spite of surgery on Saturday in connection with a recently diagnosed case of thyroid cancer.
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U.S. Chief Justice William  Rehnquist, who has been absent from the Supreme Court because  of thyroid cancer, plans to swear in President Bush at his  inauguration on Jan. 20, the White House and a court  spokeswoman said on Friday.
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Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist&#39;s hospitalization for cancer brings with it the prospect of the first Supreme Court vacancy in a decade and is prompting speculation about who might take his place.
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Chief Justice William Rehnquist was unable to preside over the Supreme Court yesterday as planned, and specialists said his treatment indicates he has a particularly virulent, usually fatal form of thyroid cancer.
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WASHINGTON The chief justice of the US Supreme Court, William Rehnquist, announced Monday that he was delaying his return to the bench because of his thyroid cancer, signaling that his illness may be more serious than originally indicated.
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Ailing U.S. Chief Justice William Rehnquist, who has been undergoing treatment for thyroid cancer, has returned to work part-time at the Supreme Court, a spokeswoman said on Wednesday.