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The court ruled that Parliament had failed to hold the president accountable in a scandal concerning diverted state funds.
As long as Latin America’s democracies fail to take seriously the tasks of reducing inequality, spreading opportunity, and nurturing more cohesive societies, they will continue to court disaster.
As a result, I am challenging this deal in court and asked the members of my party to vote no confidence in the government.
Palestine must be granted legal status so that, at the very least, its people will have access to the international legal court, with the understanding that international support is required to aid and defend this young state.
Jordan has also ratcheted up its attempts to limit free expression, with a June 2015 amendment to its cyber-crime law allowing the attorney-general to detain, without a court order, anyone deemed to have used the Internet for defamation.
India: No Longer Handcuffed to HistoryNEW DELHI – A recent court ruling has revealed India’s strengths and limitations as it grapples with its transformation from a land handcuffed to history–ever since the Partition of 1947, which carved Pakistan out of its stooped shoulders – into a modern global giant.
The court judgment gives two-thirds of the disputed site to two Hindu organizations, and one-third to Muslims, which suggests a solution that might permit the construction of both a mosque and a temple on the same site.
What the court has done is to craft a solution that no political process could have arrived at independently, but which takes the dispute off the streets.
In 1953, Fidel Castro, in what is probably the best-known speech in Latin American political history, proclaimed in court that history would absolve him.
In these cases, victims, activist lawyers, and advocacy organizations turned to the regional human-rights court after exhausting their options at home.
Prisoners of PainPRINCETON – Last month, an Egyptian court sentenced Laura Plummer, a 33-year old English shop worker, to three years in prison for smuggling 320 doses of tramadol into the country.
Places like the United Kingdom actively court wealthy foreign nationals through extraordinary preferential treatment of their investment income.
Recent court rulings in the United States have given the vultures the upper hand, and may make debt restructuring even more difficult, while enthusiasm for bailouts is clearly waning.
But now the PiS is pursuing a wide-ranging power grab, seeking control of the country’s constitutional court, public media channels, and security services.
The PiS then selected its own judges instead, while adopting legislation that essentially paralyzed the court.
The court declared the PiS’s judicial rule changes unconstitutional, but the PiS-led government refused to publish the court’s decision, thereby blocking it from taking effect.
It is now all but impossible for the court to assess the constitutionality of the current parliament’s legislation, despite the Polish constitution’s explicit provision authorizing judicial review.
Now that the PiS’s actions have been universally condemned, it is holding out until the end of the year, when the current constitutional court president’s mandate expires.
But a newly appointed president likely won’t end Poland’s constitutional crisis, because with valid court judgments from this summer remaining unpublished, there is now a black hole in Poland’s constitutional order.
The EU has started legal proceedings against Poland, and it is calling on the Polish government to work with opposition parties to reform the court.
Merkel would cause outrage among her conservative voters (as well as court defeat at the German Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe) should she agree to a more free-spending policy, including any direct financial assistance for Greece.
Often we had to go to court to force disclosure of information, using Romania’s 2001 Freedom of Information Act.
For example, even when we won a case regarding access to the records of wiretaps authorized by the general prosecutor, the prosecutor simply ignored the court order.
Likewise, the Bucharest court was asked for the number of judges disciplined since the beginning of 2000, including grounds for any sanctions applied.
Clearly, even when there is no malicious intent, bringing world leaders together can court diplomatic disaster.
He had known court Jews.
But this is not a criminal court.
If a future Syrian government were to join the International Criminal Court and consent to retroactive jurisdiction, the court would be free to prosecute any mass atrocities it saw fit to investigate.
But Bolivia’s constitutional court has ruled that he can, because the adoption of a new constitution redefined the country as the Plurinational State of Bolivia;Morales, therefore, served his first term as the head of a different state.
An independent report has chronicled 12 separate episodes of government meddling with court rulings.
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