Article: U.S. Supreme Court brought back into election dispute.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

WASHINGTON _ The Florida Supreme Court's surprise decision Friday to order a partial recount of ballots in the state created something akin to legal chaos.

One set of attorneys for Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush rushed immediately to a federal courthouse in Atlanta, seeking an emergency injunction to block any recounting before an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Other Bush attorneys tangled into the night in a courtroom in Tallahassee, Fla., with lawyers for Democratic candidate Al Gore over the standards to be used to recount as many as 40,000 ballots statewide.

Leon County Circuit Judge N. Sanders Sauls, whose decision ...

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