Four of the nine Supreme Court members recused themselves from a case leaving them without a quorum. The matter was brought by South African apartheid survivors who accuse U.S. corporations of collaborating with the apartheid regime. Because of the high court's inability to act, the way is cleared for the lawsuit to proceed – rejecting a move from corporations, backed by the Bush administration, to dismiss the claims. FSRN's Tanya Snyder probes deeper into the conflict of interest in the Supreme Court.

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