Court overturns DC handgun ban
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A U.S. appeals court on Friday struck down a 30-year-old Washington, D.C., law that bans handguns in homes, a precedent-setting ruling that dealt a setback to a city with one of America's highest crime rates.
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TUCSCON, Ariz.  - A federal judge on Wednesday  lifted a block on a controversial Arizona law aimed at  restricting government services for illegal immigrants.
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Voting 9 to 0, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a ruling by the federal appeals court in New York that found the system for choosing nominees to the stateâs trial court unconstitutional.
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The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday overturned a nearly century-old ruling that prohibited manufacturers from dictating the minimum prices retailers must charge for their goods, saying such agreements could spark competition rather than stifle it.
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In a blow to printer company Lexmark International, a federal appeals court overturned on Tuesday an order that barred a North Carolina company from making computer chips for ink cartridge replacements.
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The House voted Wednesday to end a 28-year ban on handgun ownership in the nation's capital, brushing aside pleas from city officials concerned about a surge in violence and more heavily armed criminals.
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Ukraine&#39;s Constitutional Court yesterday overturned a new amendment to the country&#39;s election laws that had been intended to minimize the chances for fraud, but it dismissed
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A federal appeals court Monday barred the Defense Department from withholding funds from colleges and universities that deny access to military recruiters.
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A federal appeals court reversed itself Wednesday and ruled that the government can draw blood from federal parolees for a DNA databank used to investigate crimes -- a decision that dissenters called an invitation to repression.
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The District asked the Supreme Court yesterday to save the city's ban on handgun ownership, saying an appeals court's decision overturning the prohibition "drastically departs from the mainstream of American jurisprudence."
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A federal appeals court has overturned a statute outlawing sex toy sales in Texas, one of the last states  -  all in the South  -  to retain such a ban
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The Montana Supreme Court on Tuesday overturned a decision that determined a disputed legislative race was tied, likely giving Democrats control of the state House of Representatives.
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A 10-year-old ban on assault weapons  expired across the United States on Monday with a political  firefight but no apparent rush to rearm by gun enthusiasts.
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A federal appeals court on Monday overturned a judge who had thrown out a lawsuit seeking a paper trail for that state&#39;s new touchscreen voting machines.
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PARIS - A Paris appeals court on Tuesday upheld the acquittals of three photographers accused of invasion of privacy after they took pictures of Princess Diana and Mr Dodi Fayed at the scene of their deadly crash.
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A Federal Appeals Court has overturned a $156 million judgment that had been awarded to the family of an American-born student killed in a 1996 attack in the West Bank.
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SAN FRANCISCO - A bitterly divided federal appeals court reversed itself Wednesday and upheld the constitutionality of a 4-year-old law requiring federal parolees to give blood samples for the FBI&#39;s DNA database - a law the same court declared an ...