• In Britain, the trade and industry secretary, Patricia Hewitt, said as much last week, ruling out new laws to curb rewards to bosses who fail.

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  • Virginia, the 1967 ruling that struck down state laws banning interracial marriage.

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  • Wyatt believes the promotion ruling may have infringed competition laws and has asked the OFT to investigate whether ERL is acting like a cartel.

    BBC: Rotherham step up promotion fight

  • The plea from the sport's most powerful figure comes just two days after Britain's ruling Labour party proposed new laws stipulating that supporters' groups must own over 25 per cent of their club and have the option to buy it should they encounter financial difficulties.

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  • And here's more bad news for Georgians: if the Supreme Court finds the CDA is indeed unconstitutional, the ruling would not automatically void those state laws, says Ann Beeson, a national staff attorney for the A.C.

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  • "We are not asking for anything more than our neighbors, friends and family, but certainly expect no less, " said Todd Bluntworth, who spoke with his husband and their two children to a crowd of supporters hoping for a historic ruling from the Supreme Court striking down laws banning same-sex marriage.

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  • That forced Jackson to directly challenge the ruling of a superior court in order to sustain his conclusion that Microsoft had violated antitrust laws, which he did in forceful terms, arguing that the appeals court's ruling "ignores reality" and gives the corporation a free hand to engage in the illegal tactic of "tying" different products together.

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  • Monday's ruling is likely to spur a closer scrutiny of similar laws in other states -- virtually all states have laws governing visitation by nonparents.

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  • It could be that Mr Mugabe, having seen recent opinion polls suggesting that even massive cheating will not win him re-election on March 9th and 10th, and now frustrated by a Supreme Court ruling that strikes down some of his more oppressive electoral laws, is hoping to scare his opponent into fleeing before the poll.

    ECONOMIST: Plots, sting operations and treason

  • But an appeal court overturned the ruling since there was no evidence Mr Fawcett had broken any laws.

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  • Anand Grover, a lawyer for the Cancer Patients Aid Association, which led the legal fight against Novartis, said the ruling Monday prevented the watering down of India's patent laws.

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  • He said he hoped the ruling would lead to "a fundamental reassessment of our draconian privacy laws".

    BBC: John Terry gagging order lifted by High Court

  • It follows a Court of Appeal ruling in January that blanket checks did not comply with human rights laws.

    BBC: Criminal record checks to be relaxed

  • However, since I believe the Court should give deference to the purpose and research of the legislature, the ruling should be made in light of the economic analysis of the laws proponents.

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  • But Lord Justice Laws and Mr Justice Simon agreed that Sir Christopher's ruling was correct and the inquiry should be "as public as possible".

    BBC: Azelle Rodney

  • Evans ruling, striking down a Colorado constitutional amendment that forbid local communities from passing laws banning discrimination against gays.

    CNN: Obama views on same-sex marriage reflect societal shifts

  • But each state has its own gun laws and they could be forced into line with the Supreme Court ruling.

    CNN: Gun law in sights of U.S. Supreme Court

  • Chief Pleas agreed in 2010 to split the responsibilities after a 2008 ruling by the UK Court of Appeal found it did not comply with human rights laws.

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  • Not all DNA collection laws include as many safeguards as Maryland's law, and the ruling left open the possibility of challenges to statutes giving authorities wider leeway in the use of genetic samples.

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  • It was the first state to enact term limits for state representatives in 1990, and in 1992 it approved Measure 2, which rescinded state and local laws banning discrimination against gays. (The Supreme Court overturned the ruling in 1996).

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  • Tuesday's ruling will ease what has been a very strict interpretation of the tough anti-abortion laws on the books.

    CNN: Argentine court allows abortions in rape cases

  • The court ruling marks a victory for the film studios and could have an impact on digital copyright laws of the future.

    BBC: Website silenced over DVD secrets

  • In a 1922 ruling, the United States Supreme Court, declared that baseball was exempt from the antitrust laws because travel across state lines was merely incidental to the game.

    FORBES: Why NFL's Supreme Court Loss Isn't Much of a Loss

  • The judge ruled that tobacco firms had indeed been guilty of breaking the laws, but ordered that no financial penalties should be paid after considering a ruling in an unrelated case which deemed that such penalties were not appropriate.

    ECONOMIST: Lighting up a lawsuit

  • In short, a business that is already outside normal anti-trust law (thanks to an ancient ruling that treats each game as a discrete activity within a single state, and thus exempt from the laws of interstate commerce) would become even more like a cartel.

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  • Correspondents say the ruling suggests the right of a province to provide healthcare supersedes the federal government's right to enforce drug laws.

    BBC: Vancouver Insite drug-injection facility can stay open

  • More important, the ruling does not settle the more troubling issue of whether international trade agreements signed by the federal government supersede local laws on the environment or safety, as well as those imposing human-rights sanctions.

    ECONOMIST: The Supreme Court

  • However, since Mexican political leaders from the ruling party and the opposition have been demanding that the United States ignore, alter or abolish its own immigration laws, they have opened their own internal affairs to American scrutiny.

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  • The case revolves around a ruling by the Spanish data protection agency, the AEPD, that some search results contravene the country's privacy laws.

    BBC: Google fights Spanish privacy order in court

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