'Let courts decide on hunt ban'
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It should be left to the courts to decide whether to delay a hunting ban coming into force, ministers say.
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By Kevin Miller, Bangor Daily News, Maine  Dec. 12--Wildlife activists say recent reports of bald eagles and Canada lynx being caught in hunters' traps provide additional ammunition to a lawsuit that aims to ban trapping in parts of Maine inhabited by the federally protected species.
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Peers are widely expected to resist the will of the Commons and vote against a hunting ban on Wednesday.
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Pro-hunt campaigner Otis Ferry warns supporters will cause trouble in the run up to the general election in protest at the ban.
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If hunting is banned in Britain, the pro-hunt lobby says its supporters will continue to hunt illegally.
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The Countryside Alliance prepares a legal challenge to the Parliament Act - used to force the hunt ban into law.
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An appeals court ruled yesterday that New Jersey&#39;s environmental commissioner overstepped his authority by trying to block this year&#39;s planned bear hunt.
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Hunt supporters say they are prepared to go to prison for flouting the law which will ban their pastime.
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Pro-hunt groups say sport is more popular than ever despite ban on hunting with dogs
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A protestor is taken away by police outside the House of Parliament in London Sept. 15, 2004. More than 10,000 British pro-hunting protestors held a major rally outside the house of Parliament on Wednesday as lawmakers debated on a ban on fox hunting.
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A court is to decide the future of a "sacred" bullock, due to be slaughtered after testing positive for TB.
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LONDON  - Britain outlawed fox hunting in England and Wales on Thursday as elected legislators won a dramatic standoff with the House of Lords to ban a popular country sport that is despised by many urbanites. Some hunting supporters vowed to defy the ban.
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Manhunt 2 wins an appeal to force the British Board of Film Classification to look again at its banning.
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LONDON - Fox hunting supporters on Wednesday pledged to mount a swift legal challenge and a campaign of civil disobedience if Parliament bans the time-honored pursuit in the coming days.
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Officials from 75 nations begin on Monday talks critical to whale conservation amid political pressure to lift a 20-year ban on commercial hunting of the gentle giants.
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Simon Hart, the chief executive of the Countryside Alliance, may believe that the ban on hunting undermines a tolerant society (Parliament Act brings an end to 700 years of hunting, November 19), but this was a democratically made decision (unlike others
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The House of Commons was poised to ram through a ban on fox hunting in England and Wales, against the backdrop of angry protests from thousands of hunt supporters outside parliament.