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.

Debts that are derived from being subjected to a ban on business operations ( issued by court, commonly for tax fraud and / or fraudulent business practices ) or owed to a crime victim as compensation for damages are exempted from this and like before this process was introduced in 2006 will remain lifelong.

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Thus, on April 28, 2006, after the unofficial repeal of the French First Employment Contract ( CPE ), the Longjumeau ( Essonne ) conseil des prud ' hommes ( labour law court ) judged the New Employment Contract ( CNE ) contrary to international law, and therefore " illegitimate " and " without any juridical value ".

However, the Twins continued their efforts to relocate, pursuing litigation against the Metropolitan Stadium Commission and obtaining a state court ruling that they were not obligated to play in the Metrodome after the 2006 season.

The event was organized by Ellinais, an organization which won a court battle to obtain recognition for Ancient Greek religious practices in the fall of 2006.

On 7 February 2006, five journalists were tried for insulting the judicial institutions of the State, and for aiming to prejudice a court case ( per Article 288 of the Turkish penal code ).

On November 21, 2006, a settlement was entered in federal court under which a $ 1. 75 million judgment was imposed in one case and $ 1. 86 million in another, but the defendants were insolvent

Because the August 2006 opinion was vacated, the full court did not hear the case en banc.

On February 21, 2006, the Supreme Court of Appeal gave him leave to sue Philip Morris, demonstrating that a vexatious litigant is not completely blocked from launching further court action.

* African Court on Human and Peoples ' Rights – regional court established in 2006

In 2006 PADI was severely criticized by a Coroner's court in the United Kingdom for providing what experts regarded as short and insufficient training.

After years of legal wrangling between the Matarrese firm, Bari Council and environmental groups such as Save the Earth, the court ruled in favour of its demolition and thousands gathered on the Bari seafront in April 2006 to see the event.

In December 2006, a Norwegian court ruled that striptease is an art form and made strip clubs exempt from value added tax.

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The Armed Forces Act 2006 establishes the Court Martial as a permanent standing court.

In 2006, in the Florida case Frazier v. Alexandre, a federal district court in Florida ruled that a 1942 state law requiring students to stand and recite the Pledge of Allegiance violates the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the U. S. Constitution.

In September 2006 Christianity Today reported that " Jews for Jesus settled out of court with a critical blogger identified as ' Whistle Blower ' on jewsforjesus. blogspot. com.

On 22 March 2006, Víctor Polay, the guerrilla leader of the MRTA, was found guilty by a Peruvian court on nearly 30 crimes committed during the late 1980s and early 1990s.

An initial hearing was scheduled in the court of Arezzo, with a ruling expected by 6 June 2006.

In 2006 the local administrative court in Toulouse found SNCF guilty of aiding in deportations.

Babyshambles frontman and ex-Libertine, Pete Doherty has reputedly given his address as Homerton ,< ref >< cite > The Sun-Doherty arrested again accessed 19 January 2007 </ ref > but it has been confirmed < ref > In Thames Magistrates court ( Dec 2006 )</ cite ></ ref > that he is receiving treatment, as an outpatient at Homerton University Hospital for addiction.

A court in Tokyo sentenced her in February 2006 to serve 20 years in prison.

A new Auburn High School opened on Drury Square in the center of town directly next to the old high school in the fall of 2006, equipped with turfed fields, to include the football field ( Memorial Field ) all-purpose field, baseball field, and a grass softball field ( Rebecca J. Colokaithis Field ), as well three new tennis courts and a basketball court ( Holstrom Corner ).

As part of the settlement of a television broadcast rights dispute with Comcast SportsNet over the Washington Nationals, the Orioles severed their Comcast ties at the end of the 2006 season.

The 2006 Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy " uses the term ' colonialism ' to describe the process of European settlement and political control over the rest of the world, including Americas, Australia, and parts of Africa and Asia.

On November 2, 2005, a settlement was announced, part of which was the abolishment of PSLs as of the 2006 season.

* Julian Stockwin's nautical fiction series, the The Kydd Series, includes the book Command ( 2006 ) in which Thomas Kydd takes a ship to Van Diemen's Land, at the behest of then governor of New South Wales, Philip Gidley King, for the purpose of preventing French explorers from establishing a French settlement on the island.

At that meeting, the Contact Group released a press statement that reaffirmed its desire to work towards a negotiated settlement in the course of 2006 and also endorsed Ahtisaari's plans to develop a comprehensive proposal for a status settlement.

Great Barrier Island in 2006 had a permanent population of around 850, primarily in coastal settlements such as Tryphena, the largest settlement in Tryphena Harbour at the southern end of the island.

* In 2006, Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP .. negotiated a major settlement with The American International Group on behalf of its client, C. V. Starr, a firm controlled by Maurice R. Greenberg, the former chairman and chief executive of A. I. G.

Discoveries reported in the local newspapers in 2006 have caused postulation that the settlement of the islands by Arawaks may have been much more significant than had earlier been thought.

On February 7, 2006, a settlement was reached in which the trophy could be awarded to non-NHL teams should the league not operate for a season.

A settlement was reached in November 2005 and the final injunction was lifted in February 2006.

In 2007, controversy arose over CUP's decision to destroy all remaining copies of its 2006 book, Alms for Jihad: Charity and Terrorism in the Islamic World, by Burr and Collins, as part of the settlement of a lawsuit brought by Saudi billionaire Khalid bin Mahfouz.

In 2006 archaeological excavations at Pocahontas Island found evidence of prehistoric Native American settlement dated to 6500 B. C.

A fictional version of its courthouse and rural countryside are also featured in director Ali Selim's 2006 independent film Sweet Land, a love story revolving around a German immigrant's settlement in rural Becker County, Minnesota in the aftermath of World War I.

Defendant Sharman Networks reached a tentative settlement agreement in August 2006.

The final settlement hearing took place on March 22, 2006.

In June 2006, Gordon Ramsay, his production company, and his producer accepted an out-of-court settlement of £ 75, 000 from Associated Newspapers, after an article in London's Evening Standard written by Lewis-Smith alleged that Ramsay had faked television scenes and installed an incompetent chef.

* January 2006: The Federal Trade Commission announced a settlement with data broker Choicepoint, under which the company had to pay $ 10 million to the Commission and $ 5 million to redress consumer harms.

The divorce was finalized on December 4, 2006, with Evert paying Mill a settlement of U. S. $ 7 million in cash and securities.

This settlement has a population ( estimated in 2006 ) of about 4, 000 and is the center of administration for the Tribe.

In October 2006, it was revealed in a Haaretz expose that rampant construction of settlements was ongoing in the West Bank, contrary to Israeli promises to the United States to halt settlement construction.

In June 2006, Lee received $ 1. 6 million from the federal government and five media organizations as part of a settlement of a civil suit he had filed against them for leaking his name to the press before any formal charges had been filed against him.

An out-of-court settlement in 2006 " essentially granted the Van Zandts eventual control over all of Harold Eggers ' mastered recordings ( once certain undisclosed obligations were met ), while Harold Eggers retained a 50 % ownership interest in seven of the albums at issue and a royalty interest in the remaining recordings.

In April 2006, The United States and Canada announced that they had reached a tentative settlement to end the current dispute.