The 2001 term of the U.S. Supreme Court opened on October 1st under political circumstances far different than could have been contemplated when the previous month began. The Court, at the center of the controversy in the disputed presidential election, now finds itself mostly removed from the current foreign policy crisis in which both the executive and legislative branches of the federal government are embroiled. None-theless, the Court begins its term with a wideranging docket that includes at least one case dealing with a patient’s ability to sue an HMO.
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