Word: courtly
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Chavunduka had been hoping that the Zimbabwe Supreme Court would rule the law under which he was arrested unconstitutional and prevent the trial...
Does gender-based violence affect interstate commerce? Sounds like a silly question, but it?s at the heart of a rape case that just made the Supreme Court docket. During its 1999-2000 session, the Court will decide the constitutionality of provisions in the Violence Against Women Act that allow women who are attacked or raped to sue their attackers in Federal civil court. The case under consideration was brought by a Virginia Tech student who charges that two members of the football team raped her during her freshman year. So why would a case like this fall under...
RECOVERING. RUTH BADER GINSBURG, 66, Supreme Court Justice, from surgery for colon cancer; in Washington. Ginsburg will remain hospitalized for about a week. It is not clear whether she will be able to return for the high court's new term, which begins...
...systematic human rights abuses committed by his military junta between 1973 and 1990 (including, but not limited to, torture on Spanish citizens). Chile?s government is arguing that extraditing Pinochet violates Chile?s sovereignty, and that if he needs to be tried it should be in a Chilean court ?- although there had appeared to be no prospect of that happening before his arrest in Britain...
...becomes difficult while pressing for Slobodan Milosevic to be tried in the Hague for crimes against his own citizenry to argue that the charges against Pinochet ?- whose regime murdered at least 3,000 of its political opponents ?- are a domestic matter. But even if a British Magistrate?s Court upholds Spain?s extradition request, the 83-year-old general will still have recourse to appeal ?- and ultimately, to a political decision by Home Secretary Jack Straw, who may well be persuaded by compassionate arguments on behalf of the ailing Pinochet. But by then, the general may well have been...