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San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 1 day ago
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Ariz. — A large and powerful storm howled across the West with snow and strong winds Monday, snarling traffic, closing schools and threatening to spawn mudslides in wildfire-devastated Southern California. Virtually the entire region was suffering — from...
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Black likely staying in jail, despite review: prosecutor
Chicago :: IL :: USA | 1 day ago
Credibility T he man who put Conrad Black behind bars doesn't believe Tuesday's hearing before the United States Supreme Court will result in Lord Black getting out of jail. “There are a lot of different permutations, to be perfectly honest,” said Eric Sussman, who...
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Texas executes low-IQ convicted killer
Huntsville :: AL :: USA | 5 days ago
Credibility Bobby Woods was sentenced to death in 1998 for the sexual assault, abduction and murder of an 11-year-old girl the previous year. Woods, 44, received lethal injection on Thursday about a half-hour after the US Supreme Court refused to halt his punishment,...
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High court hears Florida beach dispute
Fort Lauderdale :: FL :: USA | 6 days ago
Credibility The Supreme Court is weighing whether owners of beachfront homes in Florida must be compensated because a beach-widening project cost them their exclusive access to the Gulf of Mexico. The justices heard argument Wednesday in a case with potentially...
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US Supreme Court Rejects Order to Release Abuse Photos.
The Supreme Court actually had little choice since Obama managed to change the law so that he has the discretion to declare that the release would endanger US soldiers. Of course earlier Obama had claimed that the photos showed nothing sensational....
Tags: US abuse photos, US Supreme Court, Obama
US seeks overhaul of Bagram prison
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 8 days ago
Credibility A US military review has called for overhauling the notorious American-run Bagram prison in Afghanistan because American officials are concerned that abuses and militant recruiting within local prisons are helping strengthen the Taliban, The New York...
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Supreme Court case: Florida v. beach property owners
Destin :: FL :: USA | 8 days ago
Credibility A group of beachfront property owners in Florida are set to argue on Wednesday at the US Supreme Court that Florida's highest court stripped them of their property rights and undercut the value of their land without paying any compensation. The case marks...
Tags: US Supreme Court, Florida, property rights, Destin, Law Crime, Property law, Property, Regulatory taking, Coastal engineering, Supreme Court of the United States, Eminent domain, Easement, Hospitality Recreation, Real property law, Beach nourishment, Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council, Nollan v. California Coastal Commission
Ruling puts gun verdicts at risk
Boston :: MA :: USA | 10 days ago
Credibility Dozens of gun possession convictions statewide could be overturned in the coming months as state judges interpret a narrow US Supreme Court ruling that found Massachusetts routinely violated the constitutional rights of drug defendants. The 5-4 ruling...
Tags: Boston Municipal Court, US Supreme Court, appeal courts, guns possessions, supreme courts, guns cases, Appeals Court, Christopher MacLachlan, Daniel F. Conley, Boston, Supreme Court of the United States, Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts, Bailey v. United States, Law Crime
Supreme Court needs another woman's touch (Newstalk ZB)
Auckland :: New Zealand | 12 days ago
Credibility The Chief Justice wants to see another woman appointed to the Supreme Court. Dame Sian Elias made the call in an address to the Auckland Women Lawyers' Association last night...She says judges she has spoken to from the US Supreme Court say there was...
Tags: US Supreme Court, Dame Sian Elias, New Zealand, Auckland, Supreme Court of the United States, Sian Elias, Sandra Day O\'Connor, Law Crime
Baguio City declares Feb. 23 as Ibaloi day
Madrid :: Spain | 13 days ago
Credibility Good news comes for the Ibalois, the original inhabitants of Kafagway, now known as Baguio City. The City Council recently passed a resolution declaring February 23, starting next year and every year thereafter as Ibaloi Day. Resolution 395, series of...
Tags: Ibalois, Mateo Cariño, Cariños, Joanna Cariño, Baguio City Charter, native titles, ancestral land, US Supreme Court, IPRA, Baguio Centennial Conference, Spain, Madrid, Baguio City, Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, University of the Philippines Baguio, Filipino culture, Ibaloi, Land rights, Ethnic groups in the Philippines, Native title
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