Judge grants anti-whaling ban
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An Australian judge Tuesday granted an activist group's request to ban a Japanese company from whaling in an Australian-declared animal sanctuary off Antarctica.
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A federal judge Tuesday upheld a New York City law banning the use of metal bats in high school baseball games.
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A judge upheld Montana water-quality standards aimed at protecting rivers in the Powder River Basin from pollution caused by coal-bed methane development.
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Australia said Thursday it would send a ship to pick up two anti-whaling activists who jumped on a Japanese harpoon vessel from a rubber boat in Antarctic waters, offering a solution to a tense, two-day standoff on the high seas.
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Mississippi judge who defended use of word "nigger" is confirmed to federal appeals court.
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A federal judge yesterday severely limited the Navy's ability to use mid-frequency sonar on a training range off the Southern California coast, ruling that the loud sounds would harm whales and other marine mammals if not tightly controlled.
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Details of Bush-ordered NSA eavesdropping stay secret A US federal judge has ruled in favour of government agencies' refusal to release classified information related to a controversial surveillance programme.â¦
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President Bush cannot exempt the Navy from environmental laws banning sonar training that opponents argue harms whales, a federal judge ruled Monday.
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A judge yesterday cleared the way for a voter-approved initiative to become law that will deny some public benefits to illegal immigrants.
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A judge today banned a float depicting naked Holocaust victims from taking part in the Rio de Janeiro carnival
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The International Whaling Commission passes a resolution condemning Japan's Antarctic whale hunt.
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HAPPY VALLEY-GOOSE BAY, Nfld. (CP) - A quiet protest by a Newfoundland Supreme Court judge has led the premier to reconsider his all-out ban on Canadian flags at provincial buildings.
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Six men guilty of sex crimes on remote Pitcairn Island will remain free till a legal appeal is decided. The verdicts were read out yesterday by New Zealand judges who had sat in makeshift courts in the Pitcairn
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A special meeting of the global whaling body called by Japan  is boycotted by most anti-whaling nations.   to plan the lifting of the global moratorium on commercial hunting.
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In a victory for environmentalists, a federal judge ruled Tuesday that the Bush administration cannot change the standards commercial fisheries must meet before the tuna they catch can carry the "dolphin-safe" label.
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The British government acted legally when it decided in April to withhold taxpayer funding from Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, a judge ruled Monday.
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A scheme which bans fishing east of Lundy Island is having a very beneficial effect on marine wildlife, says English Nature.