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Smith unsure over Naismith strategy
Smith is considering playing him in Thursday night's Europa League last-16 second leg against PSV Eindhoven but also wants to utilise the 24-year-old in the Co-operative Insurance Cup final. Smith said: "The balance is whether it's the right game to
Updated: 03/16/2011 11:49A
The West, Islam and shariah
The largest of them, the Islamic Shariah Council in Leyton, set up in 1982, has handled 7000 divorce cases. Mufti Barkatullah, one of its founders explains: “People who live in the United Kingdom undertake and abide by the law of the land,
Updated: 03/16/2011 11:48A
HC rejects BSP MLA's special appeal
ALLAHABAD: A division bench of the high court while rejecting a special appeal filed by Bahujan Samaj Party MLA M Mujtaba Siddiqui and his brother Haroon Siddiqui upheld the verdict passed by a single judge against the MLA. The bench upheld the single
Updated: 03/16/2011 11:48A
Texas Decides on Substitute Execution Drug
Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokeswoman Michelle Lyons said officials there decided to follow the lead of Oklahoma and use pentobarbital in its lethal injection protocol. "It has been upheld by the courts, so we're confident that it will also
Updated: 03/16/2011 11:48A
Suit claims academic rules harm student athletes
NEW YORK, March 16 (Reuters Legal) - Seven college football players claim in a new lawsuit that when the National Collegiate Athletic Association raised academic standards in 2009, it effectively made it impossible for them to get into top colleges.
Updated: 03/16/2011 11:48A
Pretextual Reasons for Limiting Jury Awards
Our civil justice system provides vital protection for all segments of society but the system is vulnerable because those who oppose the power of juries are a tight knit group of insurance companies and other professional defendants who stand to save
Updated: 03/16/2011 11:48A
Why Don't More Countries Recognize The Libyan Rebels?
Former justice minister Mustafa Abdel-Jalil has emerged as the best-known leader of the anti-Qaddafi movement. The best-known figure in the transitional council is its chairman, former justice minister Mustafa Abdel-Jalil. The London-based Arabic
Updated: 03/16/2011 11:47A
Agree Realty In Default On $8.9 Million In Loans Backed By Borders
The small retail landlord based in Farmington Hills, Michigan, was one of the hardest hit companies from Borders Group Inc.'s plan to close at least 200 stores after declaring bankruptcy last month. Agree counts Borders as its second-largest tenant,
Updated: 03/16/2011 11:47A
Shortages force Texas to switch execution drug
Texas Department of Criminal Justice officials said Wednesday that they plan to substitute pentobarbital for sodium thiopental in the three-drug cocktail used for lethal injections. A shortage of sodium thiopental has forced multiple states to scramble
Updated: 03/16/2011 11:47A
County sues construction firm over office building renovations
In the lawsuit filed in Lancaster County Court of Common Pleas, the county alleges Perrotto finished the job about three years late, sickened building employees and jeopordized their safety, chased away all the non-county, lease-paying tenants who were
Updated: 03/16/2011 11:46A
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