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Port ordered to pay activists
Olympia :: WA :: USA | about 6 hours ago
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The Port of Olympia must pay about $56,000 in legal fees and costs to activists who sued for records related to a contractual agreement to bring Weyerhaeuser's log-export business here a few years ago, a judge ruled Friday. A larger issue over penalties...
Tags: Supreme Court, Walt Jorgensen, Phil Talmadge, Olympia, Talmadge, Supreme Court of the United States, Law Crime
CAPITAL CULTURE: Sotomayor adds celebrity to court
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | about 23 hours ago
Credibility Apparently, no one told Sonia Sotomayor that Supreme Court justices are supposed to be circumspect, emerging from their marble palace mainly to dispense legal wisdom to law schools, judges' conferences and lawyers' meetings. Since becoming the first Hispanic...
Tags: Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor, Sandra Day O\'Connor, Bob Thompson, latina woman, wise latina, confirmed hearing, Latina, Thomas Saenz, Clarence Thomas, Los Angeles, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Demographics of the Supreme Court of the United States, Barack Obama Supreme Court candidates, Sotomayor, Supreme Court of the United States, Entertainment Culture
Jail killing case govt's next priority
Dhāka :: Bangladesh | 1 day ago
Credibility It will also fight to defend the HC verdict on August 29, 2005, that declared the fifth amendment to the constitution illegal and unconstitutional for endorsing power takeover by late president Ziaur Rahman and all the activities since August 15, 1975.
Tags: jail killing, killing case, hc verdict, Supreme Court, Sultan Shahriar Rashid Khan, attorney general, Bazlul Huda, Bangladesh, Dhāka, Jail Killing Day, Court system of Pakistan, Supreme Court of Pakistan, Acquittal, Law Crime
Grandmother wins Supreme Court ruling on care of three-year-old boy
London :: United Kingdom | 1 day ago
Credibility In a ruling that strengthens the claims of grandparents to care for a grandchild, justices in Britain’s highest court ruled that where there is a dispute over custody, the child’s welfare takes precedence over the interests of biological parents. Lord...
Tags: Supreme Court, Lord Kerr of Tonaghmore, residence order, court rule, United Kingdom, London, Court of Appeal, Brian Kerr Baron Kerr of Tonaghmore, Knights Bachelor, Kerr, Law Crime
RI eliminates mandatory minimum drug sentences
Providence :: RI :: USA | 1 day ago
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Tags: Providence, Rhode Island, Drug control law, Mandatory sentencing, Donald Carcieri, Drug possession, Law Crime, Supreme court, Supreme Court of Pakistan, Chief Justice, Court systems, Paul Suttell, Supreme Court of the United States
Bhutanese UNV among 600 evacuated from Afghanistan
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 2 days ago
Credibility There are currently, 294 guest(s) and 16 member(s) that are online...A Bhutanese UN volunteer, Lhap Tshering, was among the 600 UN international staff temporality evacuated from Afghanistan, after terrorists attacked the UN guesthouse in Kabul on October...
Tags: Afghanistan, Kabul, High Court judge, Judiciary of England and Wales, Royal High Court of Bhutan, Supreme Court of India, Court system of Pakistan, Supreme Court of Pakistan, Supreme Court, Law Crime
Ex-chief justice's Pa. casino group draws scrutiny
Harrisburg :: PA :: USA | 2 days ago
Credibility Pa. — A state lawmaker is questioning why a casino industry association in Pennsylvania that is headed by a former state Supreme Court chief justice is not registered as a lobbying group, despite its apparent attempts to influence debate on gambling legislation.
Tags: Dante Santoni Jr., Supreme Court, chief justice, Stephen A. Zappala, Pennsylvania Department of State, Pennsylvania Casino Association, Harrisburg
Supreme Court rejects secrecy actions in suit
Bartlesville :: OK :: USA | 2 days ago
Credibility The Court said in a 6-3 ruling that the trial court issued an "overly broad" order when it sealed documents related to polygraph test results and prohibited the public dissemination of the information. In sending the matter back to the trial court, the...
Tags: Washington County District Court, Supreme Court, supreme courts, Bryant Collier, gag ordered, test results, Kermit Reese, trial courts, Bartlesville
Kennedy's School-Press Incident Wasn't the First
Washington :: DC :: USA | 2 days ago
Credibility Justice Anthony Kennedy got into a messy situation this month after a widely circulated report that his office made a school newspaper get permission before running an article about the justice. It turns out the incident at New York's Dalton School wasn't...
Tags: Justice Kennedy, Anthony Kennedy, Supreme Court, New Yorker Magazine, Mr. Regis, Washington, Supreme Court of the United States, Ted Kennedy, John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Politics, Kennedy family, Kennedy, Law Crime
Thailand: Recommendations On The Justice System
Bangkok :: Thailand | 2 days ago
Credibility The special laws have circumscribed many basic human rights and fair trial of the persons held in custody should enjoy including having someone he trusts or his chosen lawyer present during the inquiry, etc. Therefore, the judge needs to be strictly following...
Tags: Supreme Court, persons held, public prosecutor, related cases, isoc regulations, special law, security related, alleged offender, Emergency Decree, ISOC, Thailand, Bangkok, Liberalism, Philosophy of law, Detention of suspects, Frontier Crimes Regulations, Judicial system of the People's Republic of China, Criminal law, Constitutional law, Habeas corpus, Law Crime
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