The ECJ ruling on Thursday said an Irish court must decide the amount of compensation to which Ms McDonagh is entitled.

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When the case returned to the lower courts, however, a judge decided that the original conviction was based a huge amount of evidence and that the Supreme Court ruling about that one aspect of the case should not impact the entirety of the conviction.

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The settlement resolves all claims by Mr. Picard against the Mets owners and their business partners, including any amount they would have paid under a prior court ruling that they must return "fictitious profits" withdrawn in the two years before Mr. Madoff's fraud collapsed.

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When Clinton petitioned the court to defer the Paula Jones case until after his presidency, Rehnquist joined the other Justices in ruling that "it appears to us highly unlikely to occupy any substantial amount of petitioner's time"--proof that even the Chief Justice can make mistakes.

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Its transport directorate has all but finalised a ruling that will declare that special deals struck by Ryanair with the local government in Charleroi amount to illegal state subsidies.

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The ruling Thursday undoes a 2008 trial court decision ordering Warner Bros. to share an undetermined amount of money earned since 1999 with the heirs, and to give the family control of key components of the Superman story, including his costume.

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Tobacco companies said the Australian ruling -- which would eliminate iconic branding from appearing on the package -- would raise the amount of counterfeit products on the market, eroding government taxes collected on tobacco.

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In its ruling on Tuesday, Justice AK Patnaik said "compensation must act as a deterrent" and "any amount less than 1bn rupees would not have the desired impact", reports Press Trust of India.

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