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San Francisco -- The California Supreme Court begins its 2005-06 term Tuesday one member short following the June departure of Justice Janice Rogers Brown, who left to sit on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. Brown's departure paves the way for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to fill perhaps his most important post. At the request of Schwarzenegger, a State Bar evaluation committee is reviewing Justice Vance Raye of the 3rd District Court of Appeal in Sacramento, and Justice Carol Corrigan, of the 1st District Court of Appeal in San Francisco.

SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has sent the names of three candidates for his first appointment to the California Supreme Court to a State Bar commission that screens judicial nominees, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Saturday. The three candidates include two state appeals court justices - Carol Corrigan of San Francisco and Vance Raye of Sacramento - and U.S. District Judge Morrison England of Sacramento, according the Chronicle, which cited an unidentified source who insisted on anonymity because the governor has not made the names public. Schwarzenegger spokeswoman Julie Soderlund told The Associated Press Saturday that the governor had...