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U.S. Army Captain Michael Kelvington, commander of the Battle company, 1-508 Parachute Infantry battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, bows next to remains of Gulam Dostager, a member of Afghan Local Police who was killed in the blast of an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) during the joint Tor Janda (Black Flag in Pashtu) operation, in Zahri district of Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan May 25, 2012. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: MILITARY CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

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WASHINGTON | Tue Jul 14, 2009 11:29am EDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor said on Tuesday she would follow the law as written by Congress and would follow precedent in deciding business cases.

Answering questions at her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing, Sotomayor said her approach has been the same, determining what the law requires, in deciding antitrust and business cases as a federal judge in New York.

She rejected suggestions that her record could be characterized as pro-business or anti-business.

(Reporting by James Vicini, Editing by Sandra Maler)
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