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And, while the constitution protects a citizen’s “right to life,” it makes an exception when the termination of a life is “in execution of the sentence of a court.”
When South Africa’s Constitutional Court ended capital punishment in 1995, opponents of the decision argued that the court was not in tune with public opinion; some even called for a referendum.
As the South African court wrote in its opinion: “Everyone, including the most abominable of human beings, has the right to life.”
Given this, it recommends that, beyond safeguarding media freedom, EU intervention be limited to regulating cross-border issues – such as libel “forum shopping” (when litigants choose the court to which to take their case based on the likelihood of a favorable judgment) – and promoting a European public sphere.
Lawyers can use OONI data to assess the legality of Internet censorship in their countries, and potentially introduce it as evidence in court cases.
Last month the suspects went on trial in a Spanish court.
Just as US President Donald Trump was touting the accomplishments of his first 100 days in office, a federal court, responding to a legal complaint brought by several jurisdictions, temporarily blocked his executive order to strip federal funding from “sanctuary” states and cities.
The immigration showdown will ultimately be adjudicated in the court system; and Trump has already lost his first battles there.
The German court suggests that this would require that “government bonds of selected member states are not purchased up to unlimited amounts,” along with the assurance that the ECB would not run the risk of write-off losses at maturity.
As to the substance of the case, the German court is right to argue that the OMT program may lead to a significant redistribution of wealth among eurozone member states if the acquired bonds are held until maturity.
The German court is also right to argue that purchases of troubled countries’ government bonds cannot be considered monetary policy – and thus exceed the ECB’s mandate.
Students for Fair Admissions, the organization suing Harvard, has submitted to the court a document showing that a review from Harvard’s own Office of Institutional Research found that in 2013 Asian-Americans were less likely to be admitted than whites who performed comparably well on all measures except a subjective “personal” rating.
This principle was enshrined in Article 125 of the Maastricht Treaty, which has since been rigorously interpreted by the German constitutional court.
Indeed, the only thing that I know for certain about those days is a strange curiosity: that Ceausescu endured his kangaroo court trial and execution with far more dignity than I would ever have imagined.
In February, the Stockholm arbitration court ruled that Gazprom must award Naftogaz $2.56 billion in damages for breach of a previous agreement between the two companies.
It would have been far better if he had been handed over alive to be judged in a court of law.
A 42-year dictatorship does not exactly provide fertile ground for the learning and experience needed to create an impartial court.
A German court has now issued arrest warrants for those involved in his abduction.
The omission of the freedom of private initiative from the values and objectives of the new Europe will influence countless court judgements, which will cause legal doctrine to become biased towards an interventionist stance.
During its 67 years, the Bank has outgrown its original design with the addition of an arbitration court and three specialist financial institutions: one for the private sector, the International Financial Corporation; another, the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency, to insure against political risks; and the International Development Agency, which funds the poorest countries.
If the court agrees, it will be more difficult for the government to avoid enforcing the court’s ruling.
Now we know better, and the plaintiffs will urge the court to embrace the modern scientific understanding that dolphins are mammals, and to rule that the requirement that mammals’ suffering be minimized thus applies.
The ball is in the regulators’ court.
These probabilities are then offered as the basis for diagnosis and as evidence in court.
The chief Jesuit confessor at the papal court used to be called “the black pope,” owing to his simple black cassock (if not his sinister intent).
Only when a constitutional court decision disbanded the apparent reincarnation of Thaksin’s party in 2008 did the opposition seize power.
Another special court is being considered to investigate allegations of organ harvesting by ethnic Albanian guerrillas in Kosovo.
In early May, US Secretary of State John Kerry pledged $5 million toward “a credible, impartial, and effective justice mechanism, such as a hybrid court,” to hold accountable perpetrators of violence in South Sudan’s civil war, in which tens of thousands have died, and hundreds of thousands displaced, since 2013.
The ball is in May’s court.
A clear reminder that the fault lines of disunity still run deep is the recent sentence of death by stoning issued to a woman by a Muslim Sharia court in Nigeria's northern region.
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