http://www.jouwnieuws.nl/ Sun, 21 Mar 2010 06:33:29 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.jouwnieuws.nl/Supreme_Court_Limits_Warrantless_Vehicle_Searches.html WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that police need a warrant to search the vehicle of someone they have arrested if the person is locked up in a patrol cruiser and poses no safety threat to officers. http://www.jouwnieuws.nl/ Sun, 21 Mar 2010 06:33:29 +0100 http://www.jouwnieuws.nl/Calif._AG_urges_court_to_void_gay_marriage_ban_%0A____%28AP%29.html <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081220/ap_on_re_us/gay_marriage_lawsuits"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20081220/capt.cps.ooi67.201208012231.photo00.photo.default-512x341.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=VMjVHE4.mCIUHUE2JDuPMg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Supporters of gay marriage rally on the steps of the State Capitol in November 2008 in Sacramento, California. Opponents of same-sex marriage in the US state of California, who won a referendum blocking the unions last month, said Friday they filed suit to annul thousands of gay marriages conducted in the state this year.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Max Whittaker)" border="0" /></a>AP - The California attorney general has changed his position on the state's new same-sex marriage ban and is now urging the state Supreme Court to void Proposition 8.</p><br clear="all"/> http://www.jouwnieuws.nl/ Sun, 21 Mar 2010 06:33:29 +0100 http://www.jouwnieuws.nl/California_court_to_hear_gay_marriage_ban_case.html SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - California's Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to hear a legal challenge against the state's voter-approved ban on gay marriage and let the ban stand in the meantime. http://www.jouwnieuws.nl/ Sun, 21 Mar 2010 06:33:29 +0100 http://www.jouwnieuws.nl/California_court_to_hear_gay_marriage_ban_case_%0A____%28Reuters%29.html <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081120/pl_nm/us_gaymarriage_california"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20081120/2008_11_19t171251_450x300_us_gaymarriage_california.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=CdFL4uXbM1AUb9MBpbdDmQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Newlyweds Sharon Papo (R) and Amber Weiss (2nd R) pick up their marriage certificate after exchanging wedding vows at City Hall on the first full day of legal same-sex marriages in San Francisco, California June 17, 2008. (Erin Siegal/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - California's Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to hear a legal challenge against the state's voter-approved ban on gay marriage and let the ban stand in the meantime.</p><br clear="all"/> http://www.jouwnieuws.nl/ Sun, 21 Mar 2010 06:33:29 +0100 http://www.jouwnieuws.nl/California_court_to_hear_gay_marriage_ban_case_%0A____%28Reuters%29.html Reuters - California's Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to hear a legal challenge against the state's voter-approved ban on gay marriage and said the ban should stand pending its ruling. http://www.jouwnieuws.nl/ Sun, 21 Mar 2010 06:33:29 +0100 http://www.jouwnieuws.nl/Turkey_steps_back_from_brink_as_court_rules_against_ruling_party_ban.html <p>Turkey's highest court pulled the country back from the brink when it narrowly rejected calls for the ruling party to be shut down and its leaders banned from politics for allegedlyundermining the secular state.</p> http://www.jouwnieuws.nl/ Sun, 21 Mar 2010 06:33:29 +0100 http://www.jouwnieuws.nl/Court_confirms_two_year_doping_ban_for_Floyd_Landis.html <p>
American Floyd Landis has lost his last battle to retain his 2006 Tour de 
 France crown after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) confirmed his 
 two year suspension for doping on Monday.
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Landis tested positive for artificial testosterone during the 2006 Tour, in 
 which he had taken a spectacular victory largely thanks to a long breakaway 
 over several Alpine climbs.
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Stripped of his title and given a two-year ban by the United States 
 Anti-Doping Agency (USADA), Landis made a final appeal to CAS against the 
 sanctions. 
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Yesterday (Monday&rsquo&#59;s) verdict marks the final act of a two-year saga and one of 
 the most high-profile anti-doping cases in the history of sport during which 
 Landis has consistently insisted on his innocence.
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CAS however, have merely confirmed the original USADA sentence. At the end of 
 a 53-page document outlining the case CAS stated that Landis had failed to 
 show that - as he alleged - the laboratory that carried out the testing had 
 been responsible for procedural errors that caused his positive for 
 artificial testosterone.
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Landis will now have to pay $100,000 to the USADA in costs and will remain 
 barred from racing until January 30th 2009.
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 http://www.jouwnieuws.nl/ Sun, 21 Mar 2010 06:33:29 +0100 http://www.jouwnieuws.nl/Court_defies_Mugabe_by_overturning_ban_on_opposition_rallies.html <p>Defying the crackdown on the opposition by President Robert Mugabe's government, Zimbabwe's High Court yesterday overturned a police ban on rallies by the Movement for Democratic Change. Its leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, is challenging Mr Mugabe in the presidential election run-off on 27 June.</p> http://www.jouwnieuws.nl/ Sun, 21 Mar 2010 06:33:29 +0100 http://www.jouwnieuws.nl/Court_defies_Mugabe_by_overturning_ban_on_opposition_rallies.html <p>Defying the crackdown on the opposition by President Robert Mugabe's government, Zimbabwe's High Court yesterday overturned a police ban on rallies by the Movement for Democratic Change. Its leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, is challenging Mr Mugabe in the presidential election run-off on 27 June.</p> http://www.jouwnieuws.nl/ Sun, 21 Mar 2010 06:33:29 +0100 http://www.jouwnieuws.nl/Supreme_Court_says_police_may_search_even_if_arrest_invalid_%0A____%28AP%29.html AP - The Supreme Court affirmed Wednesday that police have the power to conduct searches and seize evidence, even when done during an arrest that turns out to have violated state law. http://www.jouwnieuws.nl/ Sun, 21 Mar 2010 06:33:29 +0100 http://www.jouwnieuws.nl/Google_Thumbnails_Is_Fair_Use%3A_Court%3B_Google_New_%22Universal%22_Search.html Google's image search results don't constitute direct infringement when copyrighted images show up in the results, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled today, reports IP Democracy. Long story short: an adult company Perfect 10 sued Google on showing thumbnails, and after district court ruled against Google, the appeals court reversed some parts of the lower court's decision, but more importantly it found that Google's image search didn't violate Perfect 10's copyright, even though Google reproduced entirely, albeit in thumbnail format, Perfect 10's photos. The main language in the decision: "In this case, Google has put Perfect 10's thumbnail images (along with millions of other thumbnail images) to a use fundamentally different than the use intended by Perfect 10. In doing so, Google has provided a significant benefit to the public. Weighing this significant transformative use against the unproven use of Google's thumbnails for cell phone downloads, and considering the other fair use factors, all in light of the purpose of copyright, we conclude that Google's use of Perfect 10's thumbnails is a fair use." Full decision here. In related news, Google has merged the results of it disparate search services, such as books, YouTube videos and Google's local shopping information, and will now present them in the main results, a move it calls "universal search". It is also making other search enhacements: it will soon improve how its search engine discerns the meaning of a query, as in whether someone searching for "AB" means Alberta or air base. Full list of enhancements is here. Also read: "Google sets spotlight on videos" http://www.jouwnieuws.nl/ Sun, 21 Mar 2010 06:33:29 +0100 http://www.jouwnieuws.nl/Supreme_Court_upholds_%27partial-birth%27_abortion_ban.html The Supreme Court Wednesday upheld a controversial law banning a specific abortion procedure critics call "partial birth," a ruling that could portend enormous social, legal, and political implications for the divisive issue. http://www.jouwnieuws.nl/ Sun, 21 Mar 2010 06:33:29 +0100 http://www.jouwnieuws.nl/Appeals_court_overturns_D.C._gun_ban_%0A____%28AP%29.html AP - The District of Columbia's long-standing ban on handguns was overturned Friday by a federal appeals court, which rejected the city's argument that the Second Amendment right to bear arms applies only to militias, not individuals. http://www.jouwnieuws.nl/ Sun, 21 Mar 2010 06:33:29 +0100 http://www.jouwnieuws.nl/California%26%23039%3Bs_top_court_to_review_gay_marriage_ban_%0A____%28Reuters%29.html Reuters - California's highest court said on Wednesday it would consider a lawsuit challenging the state's ban on same-sex marriages, a legal fight stemming from marriage licenses granted to homosexual couples two years ago by San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom. http://www.jouwnieuws.nl/ Sun, 21 Mar 2010 06:33:29 +0100 http://www.jouwnieuws.nl/California%26%23039%3Bs_top_court_to_review_gay_marriage_ban_%0A____%28Reuters%29.html Reuters - California's highest court said on Wednesday it would consider a lawsuit challenging the state's ban on same-sex marriages, a legal fight stemming from marriage licenses granted to homosexual couples two years ago by San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom. http://www.jouwnieuws.nl/ Sun, 21 Mar 2010 06:33:29 +0100 http://www.jouwnieuws.nl/U.N._genocide_court_finds_no_home_for_4_acquitted.html DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - A U.N. court trying suspects in Rwanda's 1994 genocide has been forced to keep four acquitted defendants in jail because they found no countries willing to accept them, a court official said on Friday. http://www.jouwnieuws.nl/ Sun, 21 Mar 2010 06:33:29 +0100 http://www.jouwnieuws.nl/U.N._genocide_court_finds_no_home_for_4_acquitted.html DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - A U.N. court trying suspects in Rwanda's 1994 genocide has been forced to keep four acquitted defendants in jail because they found no countries willing to accept them, a court official said on Friday. http://www.jouwnieuws.nl/ Sun, 21 Mar 2010 06:33:29 +0100 http://www.jouwnieuws.nl/Court_told_no_need_to_count%2C_certify_votes.html Court told no need to count, certify votes http://www.jouwnieuws.nl/ Sun, 21 Mar 2010 06:33:29 +0100 http://www.jouwnieuws.nl/No_MSN_Search_Updates_on_Weekends.html No MSN Search Updates on Weekends Microsoft sometimes shocks you, it is like they do not follow the rules that Google and Yahoo! set forth in being secretive about how, why, what and when they do search index updates. Yahoo! recently began giving us updates, that yes, we did do an update. Google followed suit, to [...] http://www.jouwnieuws.nl/ Sun, 21 Mar 2010 06:33:29 +0100 http://www.jouwnieuws.nl/Court_Eases_%27No_Knock%27_Search_Ban.html The Constitution does not require the government to forfeit evidence gathered through illegal "no knock" searches, the Supreme Court ruled yesterday, in a far-reaching ruling that could encourage police with search warrants to conduct more aggressive raids. http://www.jouwnieuws.nl/ Sun, 21 Mar 2010 06:33:29 +0100