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An“ en banc”(Old French for high seat) procedure in which all the cir-cuits judges sit together on a panel an decide a case.The exception to this general rule occurs in the large Ninth Circuit where assembling all the judges becomes too cumbersome.There,en banc panels normally consist of 11 judges.The en banc procedure may also be used when the case concerns an issue of extraordinary importance.