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Man gets 2nd court date for Nazi salute

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A California man who was ordered removed from a Santa Cruz City Council meeting after making a one-armed Nazi salute has won another day in court.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco said Friday a majority of its justices have agreed to rehear Robert Norse's case against Santa Cruz. The same court in November dismissed Norse's contention that his right to freedom of speech had been violated.

Norse was arrested at the March 2002 meeting after he made the Nazi gesture and refused to leave. He was arrested again in 2004 when he refused another order from the city council to leave after parading around council chambers.The appeals court had said the council was justified in asking Norse to leave both meetings because he was disruptive.

KKK member's conviction to stand

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A federal appeals court has upheld the 2007 conviction of a reputed Ku Klux Klan member in the kidnapping of two black men who were abducted and killed in rural Mississippi in 1964.

In a 2-1 ruling, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit in New Orleans said the evidence in the case against James Ford Seale was sufficient for the jury conviction in the trial that took place 43 years after the crimes. Seale, now 74, is in federal prison in Indiana.