je.st
news
Tag: court
Pine Bush Anti-Semitism Lawsuit Will Proceed, Court Says
2014-11-06 01:06:52| Footwear - Topix.net
A lawsuit by several Jewish families in upstate New York claiming their children were victims of anti-Semitic harassment at school can proceed, a federal court ruled. Judge Kenneth Karas of the U.S. District Court in White Plains, N.Y., on Tuesday denied a motion by the Pine Bush Central School District to dismiss the 2012 lawsuit, which also charged school administrators with not doing enough in response to the harassment.
Texas city bans fracking in its birthplace, court battles loom
2014-11-05 19:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Voters approved a ban on hydraulic fracturing in the north Texas town of Denton on Tuesday, making it the first city in the Lone Star State to outlaw the oil and gas extraction technique behind the U.S. energy boom. The vote in the city of 123,000 was highly symbolic because hydraulic fracturing, better known as fracking, is widely used in Texas, the top crude producer in the United States. Green groups said the result served as a wake-up call to the industry, but several similar measures failed...
Tags: city
court
texas
battles
Court says BSkyB sport can air on BT
2014-11-05 17:50:08| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
A UK court rules that pay TV broadcaster BSkyB must make its Sky Sports 1 and 2 channels available on rival BT's YouView service.
Water wars between Florida, Georgia advance at U.S. Supreme Court
2014-11-04 00:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Florida's water war against Georgia advanced as the U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear an interstate dispute on whether Atlanta's suburbs are sucking dry the river flow that feeds the oyster beds and fisheries of the northern Gulf Coast. Georgia had sought to dismiss the suit, filed last October by Florida Governor Rick Scott, that stems from a decades-old fight over Atlanta's daily demand for 360 million gallons of water from the Chattahoochee and Flint river basins. Florida blames...
Tags: water
court
florida
advance
Briton in court over Hong Kong deaths
2014-11-03 04:42:01| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
A 29-year-old British banker accused of murdering two women in Hong Kong after their bodies were found in an apartment arrives at court.
Sites : [288] [289] [290] [291] [292] [293] [294] [295] [296] [297] [298] [299] [300] [301] [302] [303] [304] [305] [306] [307] next »