Burton ( 2008 ) argues that Lincoln's republicanism was taken up by the Freedmen as they were emancipated.

In 2008, it was discovered that the inactivation of only two genes in one species of annual plant leads to the conversion into a perennial plant.

From 2002 to July 2008 under Turkmen calendar reform, the month of August was named after Alp Arslan.

In 2008, the world's total arable land amounted to 13, 805, 153 km², whereas 48, 836, 976 km² was classified as " agricultural land.

A bridge was first completed here in 1887, replaced by another structure in 1949, and subsequently replaced with the current bridge which was completed in 2008.

To try to answer this question more definitely, a randomized double-blind study was started in September 2008 and was completed in March 2010.

For this reason, Armenia was virtually unaffected by the Liquidity crisis of September 2008.

It hosted the annual Hall of Fame Game, an exhibition game between two major league teams that was played from 1940 until 2008.

In 2008, Athens was ranked the world's 32nd richest city by purchasing power < ref >

As of early 2008, the wholesale price for abalone meat was approximately US $ 40. 00 per kilogram.

In 2008, a former goods shed by the main railway station of Abensberg was converted into a theatre by local volunteers.

The " Theater am Bahnhof " ( Theatre at the Railway Station ) is mostly used by the Theatergruppe Lampenfieber and was opened on 19 October 2008.

It replaces the " sheaves of wheat " design, and was minted until 2008.

On December 1, 2008, the Curb Exchange building at 86 Trinity Place was closed, and the Amex Equities trading floor was moved to the NYSE Trading floor at 11 Wall Street.

The building work for the stadium which has a capacity of 32. 960, began in May 2008 and was completed by the beginning of 2009.

It was not until June 6, 2008 that Japan formally recognised the Ainu as an indigenous group ( see Official Recognition, below ).

On June 6, 2008, a bi-partisan, non-binding resolution was approved by the Japanese Diet calling upon the government to recognize the Ainu people as indigenous to Japan, and urging an end to discrimination against the group.

Its main building was named Albertus Magnus Hall in 2008.

In 2008 the skeleton of Queen Eadgyth, granddaughter of Alfred the Great was found in Magdeburg Cathedral in Germany.

In December 2008, HDMS Absalon was involved in the rescue of putative Somali pirates 90 miles off Yemen in the Gulf of Aden.

The campaign by the name ' Tree Day-Plant Your Future ' was first organized on 12 March 2008, when an official non-working day was declared and more than 150, 000 Macedonians planted 2 million trees in one day ( symbolically, one for each citizen ).

* DuPont has been sued by 1, 995 people who claim dioxin emissions from DuPont's plant in DeLisle, Mississippi, caused their cancers, illnesses or loved ones ' deaths ; of these only 850 were pending as of June 2008.

On December 16, 2008, the Center for Biological Diversity sued the Interior Department under Kempthorne for introducing " regulations ... that would eviscerate our nation ’ s most successful wildlife law by exempting thousands of federal activities, including those that generate greenhouse gases, from review under the Endangered Species Act.

In 2008, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, and Sage Publications sued four senior members of staff employed by Georgia State University over the university's electronic reserves policy, which is an online version of the usual reserve policy for texts used in courses.

On May 9, 2008 the other members of the group sued drummer Mark Herndon for $ 202, 670 in money allegedly overpaid to him three years earlier after the band's farewell tour concluded.

However, in May 2008, Dravnel sued De La Hoya for slander, but she dropped the lawsuit after experts determined the photographs had been digitally doctored.

On October 1, 2008 the tribe sued CalTrans after months of unsuccessful negotiations.

In April 2008, eBay sued Craigslist to " safeguard its four-year financial investment ", claiming that in January 2008, Craigslist took actions that " unfairly diluted eBay's economic interest by more than 10 %.

Avery sued and in November 2008 accepted a $ 150, 000 settlement from the Israeli government in exchange for dropping the lawsuit.

By 2008, it was reported separately that Susan Berg, president of Global Music Group, bid on the label at auction for $ 24 million, and that Warner had topped her bid by reiterating its $ 25 million dollar offer, but neither sale went through ; questions regarding Knight's financial status surfaced when he sued Kanye West over a shooting / robbery at the rapper's birthday party.

In 2008, a paparazzo sued and lost his case against actor Keanu Reeves claiming that Reeves hit him with his car after he left his friend's house.

In May 2008, Emad al-Janabi sued L-3 and CACI for physical and mental abuse from employees while he was detained at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad, Iraq.

In 2008 the McCann family sued the Star and Express for libel following the newspapers ' coverage of the case.

In September 2008, Mervyn's sued the private equity firms involved in the leveraged buyout of the chain, alleging that the deal had stripped the retailer of its real estate assets, forcing it into bankruptcy.

In March, 2008, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission ( SEC ) sued Biovail and some of its former officers, alleging that " present and former senior Biovail executives, obsessed with meeting quarterly and annual earnings guidance, repeatedly overstated earnings and hid losses in order to deceive investors and create the appearance of achieving earnings goals.

In June 2011 El Naschie sued the journal Nature for libel, claiming that his reputation had been damaged by their November 2008 article about his retirement, which included statements that Nature had been unable to verify his claimed affiliations with certain international institutions.

In 2008, controversy again erupted in his family when the four remaining children sued Sony / ATV Music Publishing over an agreement that Twitty and his family signed in 1990.

In 2008, Singh was unsuccessfully sued for libel by the British Chiropractic Association for criticising their activities in a column in The Guardian.

In 19 April 2008, The Guardian published Singh's column " Beware the Spinal Trap ", an article that was critical of the practice of chiropractic and which resulted in Singh being sued for libel by the British Chiropractic Association ( BCA ).

On 30 September 2008, it was reported that Ant & Dec were being sued for $ 30 million by Greek American stand-up comedian and actor ANT for using his name in the United States.

Additionally, in October 2008, the four main members of Music Canada were sued by the estate of Chet Baker and several other artists for copyright infringement.

In 2008, Ubisoft sued Optical Experts Manufacturing ( OEM ), a DVD Duplication company for $ 25 million plus damages for the leak and distribution of the PC version of Assassin's Creed.

In March 2012 Cairns successfully sued former Indian Premier League commissioner Lalit Modi for libel, after Modi posted on Twitter in 2010 that Cairns had been involved in match-fixing during 2008.

In 2008, Klugman sued NBC Television concerning missing profits from his show Quincy M. E.

In 2008, LG Electronics sued the Quanta Computer company for patent infringement, when Quanta used Intel components with non Intel components.