* 2005 – The Oregon Supreme Court nullifies marriage licenses issued to gay couples a year earlier by Multnomah County.

A court case allowing the União do Vegetal to import and use the tea for religious purposes in the United States, Gonzales v. O Centro Espirita Beneficente Uniao do Vegetal, was heard by the U. S. Supreme Court on November 1, 2005 ; the decision, released February 21, 2006, allows the UDV to use the tea in its ceremonies pursuant to the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

* International Criminal Court ( party since 2005 )

" Contempt of Court: A Scholar's Battle for Free Speech from behind Bars " ( 2005 ) ( ISBN 0759106436 ).

The case was re-investigated in early 2005, when the new law came into effect, and his case was referred to the Court of Appeal in November 2005 for permission for a new trial, which was granted.

In Northern Ireland the Criminal Justice Act 2003, effective 18 April 2005, makes certain " qualifying offence " ( including murder, rape, kidnapping, specified sexual acts with young children, specified drug offences, defined acts of terrorism, as well as in certain cases attempts or conspiracies to commit the foregoing ) subject to retrial after acquittal ( including acquittals obtained before passage of the Act ) if there is a finding by the Court of Appeals that there is " new and compelling evidence.

In Gonzales v. O Centro Espirita Beneficente Uniao do Vegetal, the Supreme Court heard arguments on November 1, 2005 and unanimously ruled in February 2006 that the U. S. federal government must allow the UDV to import and consume the tea for religious ceremonies under the 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

* 2005 – US District Court Judge John E. Jones III rules against mandating the teaching of " intelligent design " in his ruling of Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District.

' Lower courts then set guidelines for identifying ' junk science ,' such as the 2005 opinion of United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit Judge Easterbrook, ' Positive reports about magnetic water treatment are not replicable ; this plus the lack of a physical explanation for any effects are hallmarks of junk science.

* 2005 – The United States Supreme Court upholds a federal law banning cannabis, including medical marijuana, in Gonzales v. Raich.

On 5 September 2005, the Federal Court of Australia issued a landmark ruling that Sharman, though not itself guilty of copyright infringement, had " authorized " Kazaa users illegally to swap copyrighted songs.

On 5 December 2005, the Federal Court of Australia ceased downloads of Kazaa in Australia after Sharman Networks failed to modify their software by the December 5 deadline.

Although Weah was still threatening to take his claims to the Supreme Court if no evidence of fraud was found, Johnson-Sirleaf was declared winner on November 23, 2005, and took office on January 16, 2006.

Liechtenstein has resorted two times to international dispute settlement by the International Court of Justice, in the Nottebohm ( Liechtenstein v. Guatemala ) case against Guatemala in the 1950s and in a case concerning art property of the Liechtenstein family against Germany in 2005.

* 2005 – US Supreme Court rules that the execution of juveniles found guilty of murder is unconstitutional marking a change in " national standards ,".

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In Florida, the state Supreme Court held in 2005 that no-contest convictions may be treated as prior convictions for the purposes of future sentencing.

In February 2005, a California Court of Appeal unanimously upheld the original verdict.

In 2005, The Supreme Court of the United States ruled that police do not have a constitutional duty to protect a person from harm.

* The Supreme Court of the Philippines, through a unanimous opinion penned in 2005 by Associate Justice Leonardo Quisumbing, quoted The Moving Finger when it ruled that the widow of defeated presidential candidate Fernando Poe Jr. could not substitute her late husband in his pending election protest against Philippine president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, thus leading to the dismissal of the protest.

The case was heard in the High Court in London in July 2005 ; some embarrassment was caused to Byers when he admitted that an answer he had given to a House of Commons Select Committee was inaccurate, but on 14 October 2005 the judge found that there was no evidence that Byers had committed the tort of misfeasance in public office.

In February 2005, the U. S. Supreme Court ruled in Johnson v. California that the California Department of Corrections ' unwritten practice of racially segregating prisoners in its prison reception centers – which California claimed was for inmate safety ( gangs in California, as throughout the U. S., usually organize on racial lines )— is to be subject to strict scrutiny, the highest level of constitutional review.

Satanism is now allowed in the Royal Navy of the British Armed Forces, despite much opposition from Christians, and, in 2005, the Supreme Court of the United States debated over protecting the religious rights of prison inmates after a lawsuit challenging the issue was filed to them.

The U. S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit subsequently overturned the ruling on June 29, 2005.

* On 19 July 2005, in Richmond, Virginia, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals began hearing the government's appeal of the lower court ( the District of South Carolina, at Charleston ) ruling by Henry F. Floyd, District Judge, ( CA-04-2221-26AJ ).

In September 2005, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the defendants ' argument and affirmed the lower court's decision.

In February 2005, the Tennessee Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling stating that Williams's heirs — son, Hank Williams Jr., and daughter, Jett Williams — have the sole rights to sell his recordings made for a Nashville radio station in 1951.

In January 2005, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans denied the case.

After a lengthy legal process that went to appeal, the Tennessee State Appeals Court ruled on May 3, 2005, that Vanderbilt University would be forced to pay a sizable sum to the UDC if it removed " Confederate " from the building.

In the same DNA interview, Short was critical of the role of members of the Appeals Committee at the 2005 and 2006 World Championships, in particular FIDE Vice President Zurab Azmaiparashvili whom he described as " singularly inappropriate for such work having, by his own admission, cheated in winning the 2003 European Championship.

In 2004, the Kansas Appeals Court upheld the law as is, but the Kansas Supreme Court unanimously reversed the lower court's ruling on October 21, 2005, in State v. Limon.

On June 13, 2005, the Supreme Court denied the government's petition to have his case heard directly by the court, instead of the appeal being first heard by the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in Richmond, Virginia.

On December 21, 2005, the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit refused to authorize a transfer from the Navy brig.

The Davidson County Chancery Court dismissed the lawsuit in 2003, but the Tennessee Court of Appeals ruled in May 2005 that the university must pay damages based on the present value of the United Daughters of the Confederacy's contribution if the inscription bearing the name " Confederate Memorial Hall " was removed from the building or altered.

* In September 2005, a U. S. lumber industry associate filed suit in the D. C. Court of Appeals challenging the constitutionality of the NAFTA Chapter 19 dispute settlement system.

On February 24, 2006, the Ontario Court of Appeals denied the government leave to appeal the November 7, 2005 decision.

In June 2005, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a district judgment holding that it was unconstitutional for the school district to " teach the Bible as literal truth " to students, including first graders.

On January 6, 2005, a Texas Court of Appeals reversed the convictions, because California psychiatrist and prosecution witness Dr. Park Dietz admitted he had given materially false testimony during the trial.

But Chilean judge Nibaldo Segura from the Appeals court, refused in July 2005, arguing that they had already been prosecuted in Chile.

This decision was reversed in 2005 by the Court of Appeals of the Republic of Lithuania, on the basis that the District Court had not linked all the supporting evidence.

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The case was initially dismissed as a political question by the District Court for the Northern District of California in 2003, but was reinstated in part by the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in 2005.

* Heiko Meiertöns, Superior Responsibility and Mens Rea-The Appeals Decision in the Blaskic-Case, 18 Journal of International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict, 53-58 ( 2005 )

This decision was reversed, and the conviction was ultimately upheld by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in July 2005.

In July 2005, however, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit reversed the decision, and reinstated the suit against The New York Times.

A three-judge panel of the 11th U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta overturned their convictions in 2005, citing the " prejudices " of Miami ’ s anti-Castro Cubans, but the full court later reversed the five's bid for a new trial and reinstated the original convictions.