The Supreme Court faces a discomfiting decision. If it chooses, as it should, to hear a case concerning racial preferences in admissions at the University of Texas, the court will confront evidence of its complicity in harming the supposed beneficiaries of preferences the court has enabled and encouraged. Read full article > >
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The unintended consequences of racial preferences
The trial against Silvio Berlusconi has begun, but don’t expect a verdict any time soon: After opening hearings, the court adjourned until May 31. The whole session lasted just a few minutes, with neither Berlusconi nor the underage woman he allegedly…
Directors of the court of the BoE have been asked to release all documents on its work during the financial crisis.
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VIDEO: Treasury Committee
The lawyer for Joran Van der Sloot, the Dutch national accused of killing a 21-year-old woman in Lima, Peru, last year, said Monday he has asked the court to charge his client with the lesser offense of manslaughter.
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Documents detail Van der Sloot defense
Two of the N.B.A.’s worst teams took to the court in the league’s first regular-season game in Europe.
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Nets 116, Raptors 103: N.B.A.’s London Debut Is Greeted With Mixed Results
A moment of elation quickly turned tragic Thursday night when a Michigan high school basketball star collapsed on the court and later died after sinking a game-winning layup in overtime, propelling his team to a perfect season. Wes Leonard, 16, of…
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Teen Dies After Sinking Winning Shot
A feng shui master loses an appeal, called “thoroughly dishonest” by the court, against the rejection of his claim to Hong Kong tycoon Nina Wang’s fortune.
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Lover loses Nina Wang’s fortune
There may be a few empty seats around the Supreme Court justices at Tuesday’s State of the Union address. One year after a much-publicized incident in which President Obama took a swipe at the court’s Citizens United decision and Justice Samuel Alito…
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Will Justices Attend the Speech?
In a Dallas courtroom yesterday Cornelius Dupree, who had spent thirty years in prison on a conviction for rape, robbery, and abduction, was told that he had been exonerated. DNA evidence had shown unequivocally that he was not the man who had committed the crime in question. The judgment came too late for Dupree, who had already served his full sentence; the court was merely terminating his parole status. The Dallas Morning News reports: . . .
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SCOTT HORTON—In Texas, 41 Exonerations from DNA Evidence in 9 Years
Guinea’s Supreme Court has ruled Alpha Conde the winner of a November 7 presidential runoff election, the court’s president announced Friday in the country’s capital city.
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Guinea’s new president is named
Bristol Palin may have lost on TV last night, but her mother won in the court of law. HarperCollins and Gawker reached a settlement in which the gossip blog agreed not to repost scanned excerpts from Sarah Palin’s new book America by Heart. A federal…
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Gawker Settles Palin Book Dispute
A San Francisco appeals court ruled Monday that the controversial military policy known as “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” will stay in place while the court reviews the government’s appeal. “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” – enacted in 1993 – allows the military to…
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‘Don’t Ask’ to Stay Until Spring
Who could have seen this one coming? Charlie Sheen filed for divorce from his wife Brooke Mueller on Monday. The couple, who married in 2008 and have twin one-year-old boys, have been living apart since April, a source told People. In the court papers…
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Charlie Sheen, Brooke Mueller File for Divorce
In the court of public opinion at least, the nine Supreme Court justices have tended to be right over the last four years. And by and large, the Roberts Court’s decisions have fallen on the conservative side. According to a recent poll, a large…
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Court’s Shift Mirrors Public Opinion
Relatives of six Royal Military Police soldiers killed in Iraq in 2003 have said they are finding it difficult to come to terms with the court acquittal of two men accused of the murders.
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Dismay at Red Caps court verdict
Nets 116, Raptors 103: N.B.A.’s London Debut Is Greeted With Mixed Results
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