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Wynn, Diaz tapped for 4th circuit

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North Carolina Court of Appeals Judge Jim Wynn and Superior Court Judge Albert Diaz, of Charlotte, have been nominated by President Barack Obama for the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit.

Wynn, of Cary, was previously nominated by President Bill Clinton but was never confirmed by the Senate.

Diaz would be the 4th Circuit's first Hispanic judge.

Their confirmation would end a 15-year impasse over one of the vacancies on the court, which hears federal cases from the Carolinas, Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland.

The federal appeals courts are often the last stop for many cases, since the U.S. Supreme Court takes so few.

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