http://court.web2announcer.com/ Web 2.0 announcer top stories for court en Thu, 14 Jun 2007 08:39:19 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2045371 unknown@Netscape.com In Bush v. Constitution, the issue before the court was, "whether the Constitution's antiquated espousal of 'liberty' and 'checks and balances' should definitively establish the powers of federal government." Thu, 14 Jun 2007 08:39:19 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2045371constitutionlibertysupremecourtNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2042655 unknown@Netscape.com Former prosecutor turned judge Marilyn Milan loses her cool with a smart-mouthed landlord/doctor/whatever/ defendant in her court! Wed, 13 Jun 2007 06:20:45 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2042655courtjudgeLosestemperNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2039916 unknown@Netscape.com The Bush administration cannot legally detain an immigrant it believes is an al-Qaida sleeper agent without charging him, a divided federal appeals court ruled Monday. In the 2-1 decision, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel found that the federal Military Commissions Act doesn't strip Ali al-Marri of his constitutional rights to challen Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:02:29 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2039916enemycombatantappellatecourtrulingHabeasCorpuswaronterrormilitarycommissionsACTNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2040047 unknown@Netscape.com 40th Anniversary Of Supreme Court Ruling That Overturned State Laws Barring Interracial Marriage Mon, 11 Jun 2007 17:25:53 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2040047interracialMarriagesupremecourtrelationshipsNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2036453 unknown@Netscape.com A Malaysian woman who converted to Christianity might be jailed for apostasy, or the rejection of her religion, after the Muslim-majority country's highest court ruled that she does not have a constitutional right to convert from Islam to another religion - Sat, 09 Jun 2007 07:49:54 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2036453NotonstitutionalToconvertIslamichighcourtjailedforApostasyEkklesiaNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2018385 unknown@Netscape.com Too bad there's too little discrimination between good and evil. Wed, 30 May 2007 20:46:31 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2018385supremecourtemploymentDiscriminationscaliaalitoruthBaderginsburgNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2010370 unknown@Netscape.com Congress thinks we aren't paying enough for gasoline. Sat, 26 May 2007 20:51:23 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2010370OPECcourtbighelphighgaspricesNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2004666 unknown@Netscape.com The courts are not the only branch responsible for upholding the Constitution. Indeed, the president's decisions -- such as whether to conduct surveillance of terrorist suspects without warrants, support a constitutional amendment on gay marriage and continue support for faith-based charitable organizations -- in large measure determine the constit Wed, 23 May 2007 04:30:32 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2004666executivebranchconstitutionpresidentelectionssupremecourtNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1768681 unknown@Netscape.com If you haven't heard, Catherine Crier's show has not been renewed by Court TV, so she is leaving the network. But not before getting in a few digs. In a speech to lawyers in Florida, Crier says she is sad to hear that Court TV (which is changing its name, by the way) is no longer going to cover trials on TV. Sun, 06 May 2007 05:46:41 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1768681courttvCatherineCrierrantsquadNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1749898 unknown@Netscape.com Since the Supreme Court's landmark 1973 abortion-rights decision in Roe v. Wade,1 the law has taken the lead in defining the contours of the continuing public debate over reproductive liberty. Sat, 05 May 2007 12:22:08 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1749898supremecourtabortionrightsRoev.WadelandmarklibertyNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1684660 unknown@Netscape.com The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear an appeal by two Guantanamo prisoners who face trial before a military tribunal and who sought review now of an anti-terrorism law that President George W. Bush pushed through Congress last year. Mon, 30 Apr 2007 20:05:23 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1684660U.S.supremecourtguantanamoPrisonersappealdeniedNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1645802 unknown@Netscape.com Traditional small government conservatives suddenly become big government legislators of morality when the abortion issue crops up. Despite the absence of any Constitutional evidence of Congressional authority, the typical cries of Judicial Activism are curiously absent when the Court hands down a decision that flies in the face of Roe v Wade. Sat, 28 Apr 2007 17:16:02 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1645802abortionRoevWadeconstitutionsmallgovernmentsupremecourtNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1625993 unknown@Netscape.com EPA scientists believed "greenhouse gases," such as carbon dioxide, fail to meet the Clean Air Act's definition of airborne pollutants. Astoundingly, a majority of non-scientists in robes ruled that they did. The Court found that the EPA not only had the authority to regulate emissions but actually carried the legal responsibility to do Thu, 26 Apr 2007 18:22:49 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1625993greenhousegassupremecourtEPANews http://web2announcer.com/go/1501519 unknown@Netscape.com The Supreme Court upheld the nationwide ban on a controversial abortion procedure Wednesday, handing abortion opponents the long-awaited victory they expected from a more conservative bench. The 5-4 ruling said the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act that Congress passed and President Bush signed into law in 2003 does not violate a woman's constitutiona Wed, 18 Apr 2007 17:36:51 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1501519supremecourtpartialbirthabortionbanNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1432456 unknown@Netscape.com A federal appeals court said Friday it could not force the Food and Drug Administration to tighten restrictions on dental fillings containing mercury. Fri, 13 Apr 2007 18:16:49 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1432456courtrulingOksmercuryFillingsNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1383940 unknown@Netscape.com Four Serb paramilitaries seen in a video executing Bosnian Muslims near Srebrenica in 1995 were found guilty Tuesday by Serbia's War Crimes Court for the murders, and sentenced to 58 years in prison. Tue, 10 Apr 2007 14:22:32 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1383940serbiancourtConvicts4ParamilitariesNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1277855 unknown@Netscape.com The Supreme Court ordered the federal government on Monday to take a fresh look at regulating carbon dioxide emissions from cars, a rebuke to Bush administration policy on global warming. Mon, 02 Apr 2007 17:43:08 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1277855supremecourtbushgreenhousegasesrebukeNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1264461 unknown@Netscape.com The Supreme Court rejected an appeal Monday from Guantanamo detainees who want challenge their five-year-long confinement in court, a victory for the Bush administration's legal strategy in its fight against terrorism. Mon, 02 Apr 2007 17:34:41 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1264461guantanamosupremecourtdeniesappealdetaineesNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1176793 unknown@Netscape.com The Supreme Court made it harder Tuesday for whistle-blowers to share in the proceeds from fraud lawsuits against government contractors. Tue, 27 Mar 2007 18:17:06 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1176793courtTightenswhistleBlowersrulesNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1146625 unknown@Netscape.com A Satire On The Bushite Crushing of the Supreme Court and How We can fix it. It is time to end the lifetime Membership of the Supreme Court Judges and it is time to end political sponsorship of its members based on corporate and fascist, avarice. We were ordained a nation of the people, by the people and for the people, not a nation of the fasci Sun, 25 Mar 2007 06:02:34 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1146625TheendofamericaItssupremecourtNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1139387 unknown@Netscape.com According to Jurist, a specialist legal news Website published by the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, "ICC Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said President Bush and UK Prime Minister Tony Blair may one day face war crimes charges before the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague." Moreno-Ocampo's call for Bush's prosecu Sun, 25 Mar 2007 01:32:27 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1139387TheinternationalcriminalcourtwantsbushNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1090112 unknown@Del.icio.us.com No description for this story Wed, 21 Mar 2007 18:38:48 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1090112funnyhumorcourtquotesfun http://web2announcer.com/go/1083735 unknown@Netscape.com A federal appeals court on Monday threw out the main multi-billion-dollar class-action lawsuit filed by Enron investors against the defunct energy company's banks and lawyers. Tue, 20 Mar 2007 20:23:24 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1083735enronclassactionsuitcourtNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1034103 unknown@Netscape.com Defense lawyers want the word "terrorist" banned as too inflammatory in the U.S. trial of Jose Padilla and two other men charged with conspiring to aid Islamist extremists overseas. The word conjures up visions of someone with a bomb belt blowing up himself and others in a crowded cafe, Jeanne Baker, an attorney representing co-defendant Sat, 17 Mar 2007 01:32:25 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1034103ThewordTerroristjosepadillacourtcaseattorneyNews http://web2announcer.com/go/983134 unknown@Netscape.com France's highest court Tuesday rejected as unlawful the first marriage by a gay couple in France, annulling the union of the two men. Wed, 14 Mar 2007 04:56:23 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/983134frenchhighcourtRejectsgayMarriageNews http://web2announcer.com/go/985540 unknown@Netscape.com France's highest court Tuesday rejected as unlawful the first marriage by a gay couple in France, annulling the union of the two men. Wed, 14 Mar 2007 04:56:23 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/985540gayMarriagefrenchhighcourtRejectsNews http://web2announcer.com/go/944827 unknown@Netscape.com There is a clear inconsistency in the court's senseless ruling, which acknowledged that a 'genocide' had been committed, yet refused to hold Serbia responsible before the international law, with all the legal implications. Sat, 10 Mar 2007 22:59:53 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/944827serbiainternationalcourtGenocideNews http://web2announcer.com/go/824101 unknown@Netscape.com A US federal appeals court on Friday upheld a refusal to hear the case of a Lebanese-born German man who says he was tortured by the CIA, citing national security reasons. Sat, 03 Mar 2007 02:58:27 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/8241018thAmendmenttortureciasupremecourtNews http://web2announcer.com/go/798029 unknown@Netscape.com Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and "court philosopher" of the Kennedy administration who remained a proud liberal even as others dared not use the word, has died. He was 89. Thu, 01 Mar 2007 15:18:59 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/798029arthurschlesingerDiescourtphilosopherNews http://web2announcer.com/go/771972 unknown@Netscape.com Bloggers can feel a safer. Federal Court ruled that a blogger cannot be sued for what a commenter says. Tue, 27 Feb 2007 13:59:58 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/771972bloggingcommentscourtrulingNews http://web2announcer.com/go/766872 unknown@Netscape.com The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor named the first two suspects accused of committing war crimes in Sudan's Darfur region on Tuesday, a former interior minister and a militia commander.Moreno-Ocampo said in December his investigators had found evidence of rape, torture, murder and sexual violence in Darfur. Tue, 27 Feb 2007 13:27:29 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/766872internationalcriminalcourtdarfursudanwarcrimesNews http://web2announcer.com/go/678312 unknown@YahooMyWeb.com No description for this story Wed, 21 Feb 2007 08:12:41 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/678312bank chargesBanksbankcourtbank accountMoneymartincashcredit cardsstreet banksthe banksoverdraftscredit cardmoney backmoney in the bankmartinsmoney expertmoneyexpertoverdraftcourt fees http://web2announcer.com/go/591094 unknown@Del.icio.us.com No description for this story Thu, 15 Feb 2007 03:33:38 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/591094telemarketersMoneylawcourtlegal http://web2announcer.com/go/580355 unknown@Del.icio.us.com No description for this story Wed, 14 Feb 2007 09:32:57 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/580355legaltelemarketerstelemarketingcourtMoney http://web2announcer.com/go/510475 unknown@Netscape.com Victory! - Lt. Watada is not going to jail tomorrow, next week or next month. Lt. Watada's case ended in a mistrial. Ehren has not been found guilty and his attorney Eric Seitz thinks it is unlikely the case will be re-tried. A new trial has been scheduled to begin on March 19 - the Fourth Anniversary of the Invasion of Iraq Fri, 09 Feb 2007 11:38:00 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/510475Lt.EhrenwatadacourtmartialMistrialiraqwarnewtrialNews http://web2announcer.com/go/514394 unknown@Netscape.com One of Hampton Roads' highest-profile Christians stands accused of a not-so-Christian act. A plaintiff in a federal lawsuit against Pat Robertson says the televangelist threatened his life and that of his family at a legal proceeding Wednesday in the Norfolk federal courthouse. Fri, 09 Feb 2007 07:16:40 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/514394PatRobertsonlawsuitthreatNorfolkfederalcourtNews http://web2announcer.com/go/496338 unknown@Netscape.com The judge in the case against the first U.S. officer court-martialed for refusing to ship out for Iraq barred several experts in international and constitutional law from testifying this past Monday about the legality of the war. "The man on trial is setting a profound example of conscience..." Thu, 08 Feb 2007 12:41:59 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/496338Lt.EhrenwatadacourtmartialKangarooiraqwarConstitutionalityNews http://web2announcer.com/go/415891 unknown@Netscape.com "You can jail the resisters, but you can't jail the resistance. George W. Bush, take notice, as U.S. Army Lt. Ehren Watada is court-martialed next week." The first commissioned officer refused deployment to Iraq claiming illegality and immorality of a war launched under false pretenses is court-martialed next week. Fri, 02 Feb 2007 15:01:09 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/415891Lt.EhrenwatadacourtmartialwarResisterillegaliraqNews http://web2announcer.com/go/373094 unknown@Netscape.com Lt. Ehren K. Watada of the U.S Army,who refused to go to Iraq, read too many books. The 28-year-old officer is heading for a court martial on account of doing so. At this juncture, no reason exists to consider drawing up a list of forbidden books. For anyone else risking life and limb, the blurred definition of victory slowly corrodes their will. Tue, 30 Jan 2007 14:09:51 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/373094watadaReadsbookwillTowineducationAwarenesscourtmartialNews http://web2announcer.com/go/359242 unknown@Netscape.com With the ongoing crisis of America being held hostage by a rogue, runaway executive branch, we thought it was time to return to the scene of the original crime that made this horror possible: the theft of an election from the American people by five members of the Supreme Court. It may be January of 2007 when we write this updated commentary on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 09:18:19 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/359242supremecourtbushconstitutionpresidentundermindedjudgesNews http://web2announcer.com/go/347614 unknown@Netscape.com THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Prosecutors call Thomas Lubanga a Congolese warlord whose militias plucked children off the streets as they walked to and from school and forced them to fight and die in a brutal rebel conflict. Sun, 28 Jan 2007 19:47:34 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/347614NewsHaguebasedcourtruledcongocase http://web2announcer.com/go/257675 unknown@Netscape.com The following article is taken from the New Hampshire Business Review under the category of lawyers. This was one of Richard Lederer's columns on Looking at Language. Original date unknown. Mon, 22 Jan 2007 06:05:31 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/257675courtfunnyquotesNews http://web2announcer.com/go/261044 unknown@Netscape.com By Jan Crawford Greenburg - The departures of O'Connor and Rehnquist produced a titanic conflict over their successors, one that turned allies into enemies, damaged reputations and reopened old wounds. Yet, after bizarre missteps and strategic brilliance at the highest levels, Bush engineered lasting change in the court, succeeding where past Repub Sun, 21 Jan 2007 17:54:24 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/261044bushsupremecourtConservativesNews http://web2announcer.com/go/170264 unknown@Netscape.com Two New York newspapers say a deposed Brooklyn politician allegedly sold a judgeship for at least $50,000 in cash and another $6,000 in stamps. Mon, 15 Jan 2007 15:28:03 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/170264brooklynjudgeHowardRuditzkynewyorkClarenceNormannysupremecourtNews http://web2announcer.com/go/86212 unknown@Netscape.com An end to "kyrocketing" health care costs cannot occur without "restoring reliability to the justice system" through the creation of specialized health care courts, Philip Howard, chair of the not-for-profit Common Good, writes in a Wall Street Journal. Tue, 09 Jan 2007 08:17:26 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/86212healthcourtsecializedhealthcareNews http://web2announcer.com/go/5154 unknown@Netscape.com EchoStar Communications Corp., parent of the DISH Network satellite TV service, on Friday said a federal appeals court temporarily blocked a lower-court order that would have forced EchoStar to turn off about 4 million of its digital video recorders within 30 day Fri, 18 Aug 2006 19:56:29 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/5154Newsblockeddishcourt http://web2announcer.com/go/2462 unknown@Netscape.com A Las Vegas judge has declared a mistrial in a kidnapping case after finding the defense lawyer too drunk to argue the case. Tue, 08 Aug 2006 22:54:59 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2462Newslawyerlas vegasnevadacourtbeer http://web2announcer.com/go/1792 unknown@Netscape.com A homeowner's bumper crop of sunflowers has drawn praise from his neighbors, and a summons from the town. Robert Samson was cited this week for "sight obstruction" at the intersection of his driveway and sidewalk in this Buffalo suburb. Sun, 06 Aug 2006 20:13:07 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1792Newssunflowerscourtarea man http://web2announcer.com/go/1269 unknown@Netscape.com An appeals court on Thursday overturned a landmark $105 million verdict against a stadium vendor that sold beer to a drunken fan who later paralyzed a girl in an auto wreck. Fri, 04 Aug 2006 16:38:32 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1269Newslawsuitscourtlegalbeer http://web2announcer.com/go/792 unknown@Netscape.com A man who wants to pay "every penny" of his fine for careless driving in one penny pieces has been banned from paying the Β£40 instalments in copper. Wed, 02 Aug 2006 23:25:48 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/792Newsmandrivingfinecarelesscourt