Court rejects FT damage claim
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LONDON A judge rejected a claim Wednesday for a record Â£230.5 million in special damages in a libel case against the Financial Times newspaper that is being pursued by the London-based brokerage firm Collins Stewart Tullett.
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An appeals court said that evidence at the trial did not justify the guilty verdicts.
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A US court rejects a government lawsuit accusing the tobacco industry of covering up the effects of smoking.
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A woman who claims she was abused in a Catholic children's home loses a bid to sue the religious order which ran it.
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A judge at the London High Court struck out the bulk of a record libel damages claim of 240 million pounds (345 million euros, 434 million dollars) against the Financial Times by stockbroker Collins Stewart Tullet.
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The Court of Appeal rejects a challenge to  a decision to allow a mobile phone mast near three Yorkshire schools.
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A Superior Court judge rejected a motion Friday to throw out comedian Dom DeLuise's lawsuit claiming his former daughter-in-law caused him emotional and financial distress when she sued him for $2 million.
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A Â£4.31m damages claim is launched by a firm which failed to secure the Holyrood construction contract.
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A U.S. federal appeals court denied a petition from music webcaster associations for an emergency stay of new royalty rates.
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The World Trade Organization's (WTO) top  trade court on Monday rejected a U.S. appeal against a ruling  exonerating the export policies of the Canadian Wheat Board,  diplomats and trade sources said.
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A Kentucky trial judge yesterday refused to reconsider a decision exempting an unusual medical-bill ministry from compliance with state insurance laws.
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The Supreme Court rejected the claim by a high school football powerhouse in Tennessee that its coachâs recruiting violations were a form of free speech.
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Hong Kong&#39;s highest court rejected the government&#39;s request that a 67-year-old tenant be given hours instead of weeks to appeal the sale of a $2.7 billion property trust, putting its Dec. 20 trading debut in doubt.
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The Supreme Court refused Monday to speed up consideration of a challenge to the government's plans to try foreign terror suspects before military tribunals.
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India's Supreme Court upholds compensation for the family of a girl crushed to death in a faulty escalator.
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A Nigerian court rejected on Tuesday an attempt by the government to amend its case claiming $6.95 billion damages from U.S. drug company Pfizer Inc for a drug trial on children in 1996.
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Residents whose homes were flooded during Hurricane Katrina can sue the Army Corps of Engineers over claims the agency ignored warnings about defects in a nearby navigation channel, a federal judge ruled Friday.