Posts Tagged ‘court’
Thursday, June 17th, 2010
What's Your Reaction? LONDON A flashy British book dealer accused of stealing a rare first edition of Shakespeare's plays appeared for trial Wednesday in a silver limousine, sporting a Panama hat and flashing victory signs at reporters.

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Shakespeare Thief Arrives For Court In Silver Limo
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Friday, March 12th, 2010
Ramos: National Book Store has right to choose what books to carry MANILA, Philippines – The first book that provides an eye-popping look into the closed world of the Supreme Court almost never made it to print and has been snubbed by a major bookstore.

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Rare book on Supreme Court snubbed by National Book Store? (ABS-CBNNEWS.com)
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Friday, February 5th, 2010
Proposals failed to adequately address copyright concerns, says US Justice Department

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Justice Department criticises Google Books Settlement (Daily Telegraph)
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Wednesday, September 9th, 2009
Conservative Supreme Court justices expressed strong skepticism about restrictions on corporate election spending in a case the court heard Wednesday that observers said could fundamentally reshape the way American political campaigns are waged.

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Skeptical SCOTUS in finance hearing (Politico via Yahoo! News)
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Sunday, August 30th, 2009
Ana Ivanovic won a Grand Slam and was ranked No. 1 in the world

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Ivanovic still more than a pretty face? (Yahoo! Sports)
Tags: career, court, french-open, golf, ivanovic, kardon, nascar, ncaa, photos, Sports, summer, tiger-woods, venus-williams, Yahoo
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Tuesday, August 11th, 2009
Big East Conference-Around the Big East

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Big East Conference (USA Today)
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Thursday, August 6th, 2009
Sonia Sotomayor won confirmation Thursday as the nation's first Hispanic Supreme Court justice in a history-making Senate vote that capped a summer-long debate heavy with ethnic politics. She'll be sworn in Saturday as the court's 111th justice, third woman and first nominee by a Democrat in 15 years. The Senate vote was 68-31 to confirm Sotomayor, President Barack Obama's first Supreme Court ...

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Sotomayor OK'd for Supreme Court in historic vote (AP via Yahoo! News)
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Wednesday, January 14th, 2009
RICHMOND | When in the course of legal events a judge rejected Maine's bid to reclaim a rare copy of the Declaration of Independence, the state appealed to a higher court, which heard oral arguments in the case Tuesday.

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Declaration of Independence in dispute (The Washington Times)
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