Judge rules for Cuban father
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The father of a 5-year-old Cuban girl at the center of an international custody battle did not abandon her despite failing to contact her for months, a judge ruled Thursday.
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A federal judge in Washington Monday ruled that an al-Qaida suspect at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, cannot be tried for war crimes in secrecy.
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BOGOT -- Retired General Augusto Pinochet was indicted and ordered placed under house arrest yesterday by a top Chilean judge on charges connected with the murder and kidnapping of political dissidents in four countries. The ruling is the latest twist in a prolonged legal battle that has spanned two continents over whether the former military dictator should be judged for ...
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A Costa Rican appeals court judge ordered the former head of the Organization of American States jailed Friday while prosecutors prepare corruption charges against him for allegedly accepting kickbacks when he was the nation's president.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida  - A Florida judge on Thursday ordered that the body of former Playboy centerfold Anna Nicole Smith be handed into the custody of the court-appointed guardian of her 5-month-old baby daughter, sidestepping a ruling on her burial.
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Â· Judge rules that woman hands over boy to father  Â· Compulsive desire to parent led to deception
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An American convicted 10 months ago for murder in Nicaragua is vindicated but not liberated -- and the judge who ordered him free may lose his job
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A judge has ruled that Gen. Augusto Pinochet stand trial for his alleged involvement in state-sponsored torture.
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Military trials set up to determine the guilt or innocence of enemy combatants imprisoned at a US military prison in Cuba are unlawful and cannot continue in their current form, a federal judge ruled this afternoon.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- A judge overseeing the BALCO steroids case in has ruled against the government and says BALCO founder Victor Conte and Barry Bonds' personal trainer, Greg Anderson, can keep evidence prosecutors turned over to them from the investigation.
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A high court on Friday ruled in favor of a Cuban dissident who was recently deported from Bolivia for criticizing President Evo Morales, saying a law prohibiting foreigners from involvement in the Andean country's politics is unconstitutional.
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The husband of a severely brain-damaged woman won a Florida Supreme Court ruling on Thursday that could allow him to remove his wife&#39;s feeding tube and let her die, against her parents&#39; wishes.
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A U.S. judge in El Paso on Wednesday dismissed demands that U.S. immigration authorities release an anti-Fidel Castro militant accused of bombing a Cuban airliner in 1976.
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A federal judge ruled Wednesday that suspected al-Qaida operative Jose Padilla is competent to stand trial on terrorism support charges, rejecting arguments that he was severely damaged by 3 1/2 years of interrogation and isolation in a military brig. Padilla was in court when U.S. District Judge Marcia Cooke announced her decision, but he showed no reaction.
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Cuba is planning to ban the use of US dollars on the communist Caribbean island in answer to tighter US sanctions. Cuban leader Fidel Castro announced his decision on Monday
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KEY WEST, Florida  - A federal judge sentenced U.S. sports agent Gustavo "Gus" Dominguez to five years in prison on Monday for smuggling potential major-league baseball players out of Cuba.
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CBC SPORTS ONLINE - Soccer legend Diego Maradona will return to Cuba to continue his drug rehabilitation with the permission of a federal judge.