Owen gets new chance at bench 03/07/2003 From Staff Reports WASHINGTON – Spurned last year by Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Texas Supreme Court Justice Priscilla Owen will have a second chance to make her case for a federal appellate judgeship. The committee's chairman, Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, set a hearing for next week with Justice Owen as the lone witness. Democrats, who controlled the panel last year, rejected her nomination to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, accusing her of compiling an activist record hostile to workers and abortion rights. Her defenders called the charges...