The government took no action, and handed the final parts of Bakassi over to Cameroon on 14 August 2008 as planned, but a Federal High Court had stated this should be delayed until all accommodations for resettled Bakassians had been settled ; the government did not seem to plan to heed this court order, and did set the necessary mechanisms into motion to override it.

Bowie was chosen to curate the 2007 High Line Festival, selecting musicians and artists for the Manhattan event, and performed on Scarlett Johansson's 2008 album of Tom Waits covers, Anywhere I Lay My Head.

In August 2008, it was announced that the Solomon Islands intended to open a High Commission in Suva, and in December the government of Fiji announced that it had " formally endorsed the establishment of a Resident Diplomatic Mission in Suva by the Government of the Solomon Islands ".

* 2007 – Taiwan opposition leader Ma Ying-jeou resigns as the chairman of the Kuomintang party after being indicted by the Taiwan High Prosecutors Office on charges of embezzlement during his tenure as the mayor of Taipei ; Ma also announces his candidacy for the 2008 presidential election.

In 2006, it was ranked # 5 on Entertainment Weekly's list of the " 50 Best High School Movies " and in 2008, it was ranked # 412 on Empires list of The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time.

The current High Commissioner is South African lawyer Navanethem Pillay, whose four-year term began on 1 September 2008.

In June 2008 Unforgiven was ranked as the fourth-best American western, behind Shane, High Noon, and The Searchers, in the American Film Institute's " AFI's 10 Top 10 " list.

* British — Ali Campbell: " Nothing Ever Changes ( Pierrot )", from Flying High ( 2009 ); David Bowie: Pierrot in Turquoise ( 1993 ; includes following songs from the film of the same title: " Threepenny Pierrot ", " Columbine ", " The Mirror ", " When I Live My Dream & 2 "); Michael Moorcock and the Deep Fix: " Birthplace of Harlequin ", " Columbine Confused ", " Pierrot's Song of Positive Thinking ", and " Pierrot in the Roof Garden ", from The Entropy Tango and Gloriana Demo Sessions ( 2008 ); Petula Clark: " Pierrot pendu " (" Hanged Pierrot "), from Hello Mister Brown ( 1966 ); Placebo: " Pierrot the Clown ", from Meds ( 2006 ); Rick Wakeman: " The Dancing Pierrot ", from The Art in Music Trilogy ( 1999 ); Soft Machine: " Thank You Pierrot Lunaire ", from Volume Two ( 1969 ).

The venture capitalists, Gabriel and his Real World Limited partners, have created a new joint venture company, High Level Recordings Limited, to oversee the release of the album, which took place in 2008.

In 2008 Loveless Academic Magnet Program ( LAMP ) High School was named No. 20 on U. S. News & World Report's Gold Medal List, a nationwide ranking, bringing national attention to the city.

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A 2008 position statement issued by the National Federation of State High School Associations made the following recommendations about general energy drink consumption for young athletes:

Plainfield High School was the 307th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 322 schools statewide, in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2010 cover story on the state's " Top Public High Schools ", after being ranked 293rd in 2008 out of 316 schools.

In the fall of 2008 Worcester County has plans to open Worcester Technical High School to all residents of the county, to replace Worcester Career and Technology Center.

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In December 2008, the New Zealand Commerce Commission filed legal proceedings against 13 airlines in the New Zealand High Court.

In 2008, he donated $ 3. 5 million to the De La Hoya Animo Charter High School.

In November 2008 the Muhlenberg County school board announced that both Muhlenberg South High School and Muhlenberg North High School will combine and no longer be the Suns and Stars but will be Muhlenberg County High School home of the Mustangs.

In 2008, the Wildcats won their second 5A State Football Championship by defeating Peachtree Ridge High School.

She finished her education via online correspondence and received her GED in February 2008 from Kentwood High School in Kentwood, Louisiana.

Polish Constitutional Court however, in September 2008, decided that the regulations were unconstitutional and dismissed them.

In 2008, Victoria Court, an apartment building full of luxury flats, was started on Victoria Street.

On 17 January 2008, the Judge of the 17th Federal Court of Minas Gerais State forbade the sales of the game in the whole Brazilian territory.

The U. S. Supreme Court upheld the 8th Circuit Court's decision by declining to hear the case in June 2008.

* 1917 – Louis-Philippe de Grandpré, Canadian lawyer and justice of the Supreme Court of Canada ( d. 2008 )

In 2008, the U. S. Supreme Court overturned a Washington, D. C. law that required handguns to be locked or otherwise kept inoperative within the home, saying that this " makes it impossible for citizens to use them for the core lawful purpose of self-defense.

In December 2008 in a landmark decision the European Court of Justice ruled that:

On May 1 and 2, 2008, they made a well-publicized appearance on the show Divorce Court to air their differences in an attempt to save their marriage.

In 2008, Prime Minister John Key ruled out any abolition of the Supreme Court and return to the Privy Council.

On 24 May 2008, the International Court of Justice ruled that Pedra Branca belonged to Singapore with the nearby Middle Rocks going to Malaysia.

* 2008 – The International Court of Justice ( ICJ ) awards Middle Rocks to Malaysia and Pedra Branca ( Pulau Batu Puteh ) to Singapore, ending a 29-year territorial dispute between the two countries.

* 2008 – California becomes the second U. S. state after Massachusetts in 2004 to legalize same-sex marriage after the state's own Supreme Court rules a previous ban unconstitutional.

In 2008, a three-judge panel of the U. S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the murder conviction but ordered a new capital sentencing hearing because the jury was improperly instructed.

In the 2008 decision of the Supreme Court in District of Columbia v. Heller, the de jure definition of " militia " as used in United States jurisprudence was discussed.

A longstanding border dispute with Cameroon over the potentially oil-rich Bakassi Peninsula has been resolved by the International Court of Justice in The Hague with Cameroon being granted ownership, and Nigeria turning over the territory in 2008.

It was in relation to the latter that, in November 2008, the United States Court of Appeals in Cincinnati decided that a case over sexual abuse by Catholic priests could proceed, provided the plaintiffs could prove that the bishops accused of negligent supervision were acting as employees or agents of the Holy See and were following official Holy See policy.

The Ecowas Court of Justice is hearing the case of Hadijatou Mani in late 2008, where Ms. Mani hopes to compel the government of Niger to end slavery in its jurisdiction.

On 22 July 2010, the International Court of Justice gave the following advisory opinion: " The declaration of independence of Kosovo adopted on 17 February 2008 did not violate international law.

A more recent ruling by the Supreme Court in 2008 has altered that scheme somewhat, by stating that treaties containing human rights provisions enjoy a status above that of ordinary legislation, though they remain beneath the constitution itself.

In Davis v. Federal Election Commission, 554 U. S. 724 ( 2008 ), the Supreme Court declared the " Millionaire's Amendment " provisions of the BCRA to be unconstitutional.

In United States v. Williams, 553 U. S. 285 ( 2008 ), the Court upheld the PROTECT Act of 2003, ruling that prohibiting offers to provide and requests to obtain child pornography did not violate the First Amendment, even if a person charged under the Act did not possess child pornography.

In 2008 and 2010, the Supreme Court issued two Second Amendment decisions.

In District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U. S. 570 ( 2008 ), the Court ruled that the Second Amendment protects an individual's right to possess a firearm, unconnected to service in a militia and to use that arm for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home.

In District of Columbia v. Heller ( 2008 ), the Supreme Court did not accept this view, remarking that the English right at the time of the passing of the English Bill of Rights was " clearly an individual right, having nothing whatsoever to do with service in the militia " and that it was a right not to be disarmed by the crown and was not the granting of a new right to have arms.