Women ski jumpers said on Tuesday they had taken legal action over the non-inclusion of their event in the 2010 Vancouver winter Olympics, claiming it was “discrimination.”
The supreme court of the province of British Colombia will decide next April if the absence of women’s ski jumping events is illegal or not.
The legal action was filed [...]
The judgment against Debra Jenkins was the result of an unsuccessful federal lawsuit she brought against the city in connection with the death of her only child, who was unarmed when he was shot seven times by Jon Bartlett, one of five police officers who were later convicted in the notorious beating of Frank Jude [...]
The Alaska Republican has asked the Senate Ethics Committee to approve the fund, which would be administered by a trustee who could solicit donations to help the senator with his court fees, according to Stevens’s spokesman.
Stevens said Tuesday during an Alaska Public Radio interview that the fund was already established, but his spokesman indicated Wednesday [...]
THE State Government has been asked to investigate Whittlesea Council’s conduct in waging an expensive legal wrangle over a pocket of land that has been used by a local family for decades.
Both the ratepayers’ association and the local family who hold the land, the Abbatangelos, are calling on the Government to investigate.
Local Government Minister Richard [...]
The agency that coordinates legal representation on civil mat ters for poor New Jersey residents said yesterday it is facing a budget shortfall worse than it ever anticipated and called on the state for help.
“Nearly all civil legal problems of low-income people occur in state courts or agencies,” Miller said. “If people are to have [...]
The presiding judge in a lawsuit against the state of Massachusetts and the company that wants to build 130 wind turbines in Nantucket Sound dismissed the bulk of the suit this week.
Barnstable Superior Court Judge Robert Kane ruled in favor of Cape Wind Associates on most of the company’s requests to dismiss five complaints in [...]
A Christian legal organization said Friday it will sue to stop New York Gov. David Paterson’s directive to provide rights and benefits to gay couples legally married elsewhere that are now provided to heterosexual married couples.
The group, the Alliance Defense Fund based in Arizona, is working with New York legislators on the case that in [...]
State prison officials have decided to allow a publisher of legal self-help books to Legal distribute its materials in Massachusetts prisons.
The decision comes after mail-order publisher Prison Legal News sued Department of Correction Commissioner Harold Clarke. The Seattle-based publisher claimed Clarke was banning its publications in state prisons by refusing to add it to a [...]
Faced with a judge’s order dismissing their argument for keeping a bonus program hidden from the public, Sandy leaders refused to surrender.
Within two weeks of the ruling, city officials hired a Salt Lake City law firm to continue what already had been a costly four-year legal battle.
During the next three months, newly obtained documents show, [...]
X-rays displayed by doctors who examined the body of Fadel Shana in Gazas Shifa hospital showed several of the controversial weapons, known as flechettes, embedded in the 23-year-old Palestinians chest and legs.
Several of the 3cm-long darts were also found in Shanas flak jacket, emblazoned with a fluorescent Press sign, and in his vehicle, an unarmoured [...]
