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Bosnia’s gradual disintegration would appear inevitable. The only question is how the international community will, and should, react to this process. A new state – “Republika Srpska” - is shortly to be born in South Eastern...
A judge has ruled that the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission has the authority to use taxicab lease rates to encourage the purchase of hybrid and clean diesel taxis. State Court Justice Jane Solomon also ruled that...
Discusses tort cases concluded by a bench or jury trial in a national sample of jurisdictions in 2005. Topics include the types of tort cases that proceed to trial, the differences between tort cases adjudicated by judges and...
A Lake Tapps man sentenced this week to serve 25 years in prison for federal child-sex crimes pleaded guilty Friday to similar charges in state court. Weldon Marc Gilbert, 49, entered guilty pleas to two counts of first-degree...
By NATE JENKINS Associated Press Writer LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman signed into law $334 million in budget reductions on Friday, after lawmakers overwhelmingly approved the cuts during an emergency session...
How much time do you have to file a habeas corpus petition after the Supreme Court has said it will not look at your case? corpus is a procedure under which a federal court may review the legality of an individual¿s...
In one of the largest individual tobacco verdicts ever in the US, a former smoker in Florida has been awarded a total of $300m (£182m) by a state court against Philip Morris USA, a subsidiary of Altria Group.
Blackstone Legal Fellow Nathan Fox has written an article in the Federalist Society's State Court Docket Watch (Fall 2009) that begins (citations omitted): In a case that is of great consequence to education law, as well as to...
By MEG KINNARD Associated Press Writer UNION, S.C. (AP) - Authorities began looking into the 8,000-person town more than a year ago, announcing in July 2008 that now former Union Mayor Bruce Morgan and former zoning...
North Carolina's appeals court is considering a lawsuit filed after a living man was declared dead, zipped into a body bag and taken to a morgue. State Court of Appeals judges are considering whether to allow the lawsuit, which...
