Judge Restores Clinton's 'Roadless Rule'
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By TERENCE CHEA  SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge on Wednesday reinstated the "Roadless Rule," a Clinton-era ban on road construction in nearly a third of national forests.  U.S.
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A US District Court judge has sent the Federal Election Commission back to work on a passel of rules it wrote to put the 2002 campaign-finance law into effect.
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A federal judge ruled on Monday that Florida&#39;s elections division did not need to create a paper trail for the controversial touchscreen voting systems that will be used
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A third federal judge has ruled the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act unconstitutional, adding judicial weight that some experts say could keep the issue from reaching the U.S. Supreme Court.
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CHICAGO _ Sparking sharp debate on a divisive political issue, the Illinois Supreme Court on Wednesday issued key rules designed to revive a 1995 law that prohibits minors from obtaining abortions without notifying a parent.
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A Los Angeles judge on Wednesday lifted an order that kept Anna Nicole Smith's body from being buried, saying that DNA required for a legal battle over her baby daughter had already been obtained.
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Pakistan's Supreme Court reinstated the country's top judge on Friday in an historic ruling that dealt a blow to President Pervez Musharraf, who had suspended him four months earlier.
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NEW YORK - A federal judge declared the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act unconstitutional Thursday in the second such ruling in three months - even though he called the procedure "gruesome, brutal, barbaric and uncivilized."   U.S. District Judge Richard C...
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Judge says law violates free speech, orders blocking stopped.
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A judge in Argentina has paved the way for trying two notorious figures from the former military government.
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A US judge Thursday became the second in the nation to rule that a federal ban on a particular type of late-term abortion is unconstitutional.
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The Supreme Court unanimously upheld New York's unique system of choosing trial judges Wednesday, setting aside critics' concerns that political party bosses control the system.
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The United States Supreme Court overturned a ruling that had found the system for choosing nominees unconstitutional.
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Why a Supreme Court ruling on sentencing guidelines puts more power back on the bench
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A state judge, Vincent J. Grasso of Superior Court in Ocean County, has ruled that New Jersey voters who cast absentee ballots for a candidate who has dropped out of the presidential race can vote again.
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A Los Angeles judge on Wednesday  lifted an order that kept former Playboy Playmate Anna Nicole  Smith's body from being buried, saying that sufficient DNA  required for a legal battle over her infant daughter was  obtained during the autopsy.
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NEW YORK - The judge presiding over the U.S. Department of Justice's (DOJ) attempt to block Oracle Corp.'s proposed takeover of rival software maker PeopleSoft Inc. ruled in Oracle's favor on Thursday, removing one obstacle preventing the hostile acquisition.