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Required to file annual financial disclosure forms, judges are expected to regulate themselves. Most district courts have computer systems designed to help monitor such conflicts of interest, but judges must enter their financial information and use it. The clerk's office of neither the
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Eastern District Court of Oklahoma. This information was not discovered during the review of his
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While saying the "allegations were without merit", Judge Payne withdrew his nomination on March 8, 2006. He offered no further response to the article and refused to respond to the reporter seeking comments. He wrote to
President Bush saying that he needed to oversee renovation of information
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