ORDER OF THE COURT
The United States has filed a petition for rehearing en banc in these cases. The governing statute, 28 U.S.C. § 46(c), and the applicable procedural rule, Fed.R.App.P. 35(a), require the votes of "a majority of the circuit judges of the circuit who are in regular active service" to grant a petition for rehearing en banc. We construe this language to require that an absolute majority of the court's active judges vote in favor of the petition...
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