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Reporters that interviewed Nazi war criminal go on trial Thursday, could face
Those reporters, Jelle Visser and Jan Ponsen, will go on trial in a German court Thursday. They insist they were serving the public interest by recording their conversation with Boere, who volunteered for the Waffen SS in 1941 when the Nazis invaded
Updated: 02/07/2012 10:58A
Oracle rejects $272M SAP award, wants new trial
AP Database software maker Oracle is rejecting a court-ordered award for $272 million from German rival SAP, saying it would rather have another trial over SAP's theft of software and customer-support documents. A jury awarded Oracle Corp.
Updated: 02/07/2012 10:14A
California gay-marriage ruling anticipated
A three-judge panel of the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals that considered the question plans to issue its long-awaited opinion 18 months after a trial judge struck down the ban following the first federal trial to examine if same-sex couples have a
Updated: 02/07/2012 10:13A
Raw Video: Fidel Castro Introduces Memoir
6) Alberto Contador was stripped of his 2010 Tour de France title Monday and banned for two years after sport's highest court found the Spanish cyclist guilty of doping. (Feb. 6) Anders Behring Breivik, the right-wing extremist who has admitted killing
Updated: 02/07/2012 10:00A
Stikeman Elliott LLP | Court finds a failure to mitigate by employee refusing
In the recent Court of Appeal for British Columbia (BCCA) case of Silva v. Leippi, the Court upheld the trial decision that a wrongfully dismissed employee was not entitled to damages. The BCCA held that the employee failed to mitigate when he refused
Updated: 02/07/2012 09:58A
Rape accomplice learns what's reclusion perpetua the hard way
“Without [Enanoria's] participation, the commission of the rape would not have been accomplished,” said Judge Cristina Javalera-Sulit of the Makati Regional Trial Court-Branch 140 in a decision promulgated Tuesday. “The acts performed by [Enanoria] are
Updated: 02/07/2012 09:50A
Long-awaited ruling on CA gay marriage ban due
A three-judge panel of the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals that considered the question plans to issue its long-awaited opinion 18 months after a trial judge struck down the ban following the first federal trial to examine if same-sex couples have a
Updated: 02/07/2012 09:50A
UK Attorney General: Rule of Law Applies to Cleric
Britain's Home Office had wanted cleric Abu Qatada to remain in prison while he fights a legal battle to avoid extradition to Jordan to face terror charges, but a judge at Britain's Special Immigration Appeals Tribunal granted him bail this week.
Updated: 02/07/2012 09:19A
Yeardley Love's death prompted U-Va. police department changes
(AP) crime by explaining their options, connecting them with resources, helping them obtain protective orders, holding their hands through the often intimidating court process and frequently calling to check in. “I look at the community a little
Updated: 02/07/2012 08:55A
Bahrain releases Canadian pending protest trial
On January 26, Canada urged Bahrain to resolve Raas' case, two days after he lost his right to appeal the verdict for failing to turn up in court on January 24, when 12 other Shiites were acquitted. Raas was held for a month after the mid-March
Updated: 02/07/2012 08:55A