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U.S. District Judge Gene E.K. Pratter has been nominated to take a seat on the 3rd Circuit and, in a rare move, President Bush nominated Reed Smith attorney Carolyn Short to replace Pratter on the Eastern District of Pennsylvania bench. Ordinarily, the nomination of a replacement for a district judge who is elevated to the appellate court comes after Senate confirmation. But in Short's case, ...