Quebec to appeal court judgment slamming snowmobilers for excessive noise
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MONTREAL (CP) - The provincial government and the mayors of 18 municipalities plan to appeal a Quebec Superior Court ruling in favour of a group of Laurentian-area residents who said they were victims of excessive noise caused by snowmobiles.
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After its lawyer asked a question that may have pushed a jury to award $246 million in punitive damages, the Ford Motor Company is asking the Supreme Court to redefine how such damages are administered.
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Lawyers for Canadian serial killer Robert Pickton file an appeal against his six murder convictions.
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Editor and Publisher - CHICAGO In a Canadian version of the U.S. Supreme Court's Tasini decision on copyrights, a divided Ontario Appeals Court Thursday declared that The Globe and Mail violated a freelance writer's copyright when it republished her articles online and in electronic databases.
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MONTREAL - A group of hearing specialists from across the country says Canada&#39;s laws governing the noise level of childrens&#39; toys are too lenient.
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QUEBEC (CP) - The upcoming auction of a Quebec war hero's precious medals has triggered a spat among his family and drawn a stinging rebuke from a federal politician.
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A SWEDISH snowmobile owner said he had received a parking ticket for an offence allegedly committed in Britain - 1200km away. &quot;My snowmobile has been in the barn during the summer, together with another broken
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By Pete Bosak, The Centre Daily Times, State College, Pa.  Dec. 8--SNOW SHOE -- Fifteen vehicles, including seven tractor-trailers, crashed and piled up on an ice-covered Interstate 80 Thursday afternoon as a snow squall moved through and caused whiteout conditions.
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Japan Tobacco Inc.&#39;s Canadian unit, JTI-Macdonald, filed for bankruptcy protection after the Quebec government sued it for C$1.
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The Supreme Court's decision in Koons v. Nigh threatens car dealers.
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A dozen middle-school students from a private school in Rhode Island were hurt in a bus crash during a trip to Quebec.  The students were returning to Quebec from a visit to a maple-sugar production facility when the crash occurred Sunday night, The Boston Globe reported.
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A federal judge in California is scheduled to release a decision this week that will outline what the Navy must do to protect whales and other marine mammals from the loud blasts of its sonar equipment.
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SAINT-QUENTIN, NB (CP) - Over 500 people and pieces of heavy machinery continued to block a major highway in northern New Brunswick on Monday.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden - A Swedish mechanic says he won't pay a parking ticket that claims his snowmobile was illegally parked - in Britain.    Krister Nylander said he received a ticket Thursday from a British company ordering him to pay a $160 fine for an alleged parking violation in Warwick in central England...
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By David Kravets Associated Press  SAN FRANCISCO -- Attorneys for Southwestern Indian tribes urged a federal appeals court last week to block the proposed expansion of an Arizona ski resort they say already desecrates land they hold sacred and sullies their religious beliefs.
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The U.S. Supreme Court said on Monday it would decide Exxon Mobil Corp's appeal seeking to overturn the $2.5 billion in punitive damages for the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill off Alaska.
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At least five people were seriously injured Saturday in the town of Laval, Quebec, when part of an overpass above Highway 19 collapsed, a Montreal television station reported.