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Private doctors in British Columbia who argue rules against for-profit health care are unconstitutional will get their day in court...Supreme Court on Tuesday, nearly a year after a lawsuit was launched by the Canadian Independent Medical Clinics Association....
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High Country streams may be a little safer from speculative water raids after a Colorado Supreme Court ruling last week tightened up the guidelines on claiming water rights for future development. The case involved the city of Pagosa Springs and Archuleta...
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The European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday ruled in favour of an Italian woman who opposed the display of a Catholic crucifix at her children's school. Soile Lautsi, from Abano Terme, a small town outside the northern city of Padua, had lodged a the...
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A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that people can be prosecuted for displaying Nazi slogans in Germany only if they are in the German language. The Federal Court of Justice overturned a lower court's ruling convicting a neo-Nazi of transporting a...
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NPR.org , June 29, 2009 ยท The city of New Haven, Conn., violated the rights of 20 firefighters when it threw out a promotion exam because too many whites and not enough minorities qualified, the Supreme Court ruled Monday, reversing a decision by an appellate...
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A young Jehovah's Witness who challenged a Manitoba law that forced a blood transfusion on her won a partial victory and hundreds of thousands of dollars in court costs at the Supreme Court of Canada on Friday. The court ruled that the law in question...
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Although the court was ruling on the specific facts of Osborne's case, the implications could be felt across the country. The high court refused calls to provide an automatic constitutional right to post-conviction DNA testing for older crimes in which...
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Legal experts said more judges in Nevada might start removing themselves from cases involving parties who've made contributions to them to avoid the perception of bias. Others said the ruling opened a door for lawyers who want to get judges kicked off...
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Catherine Smith, right, mother of Pte Jason Smith, left Britain's armed forces were facing a crisis yesterday after a High Court ruling that soldiers should receive the full protection of the Human Rights Act even when they are on the battlefield. Judges...
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Northern Ireland was rearrested yesterday less than an hour after a High Court judge ruled his detention unlawful. Colin Duffy, 41, from Lurgan, Co Armagh, was one of six suspects held over the killings of two British soldiers and a policeman and whose...
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