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The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has reaffirmed a previous order that the case of death-row inmate Kevin Cooper be returned to federal District Court in San Diego. After the 9th Circuit's decision last week to stop Cooper's scheduled execution at San Quentin State Prison, the state attorney general's office moved to halt the order. In a 9-2 vote that mirrored the stay-of-execution decision, the appellate court said it would issue a mandate ordering the case to District Court on March 2.