One painting, Portrait of a Youth by Dosso Dossi at the National Gallery of Victoria, was identified as a portrait of Lucrezia in November 2008.

Solomon Northup's descendant, the Northup family matriarch Victoria Northup Linzy Dunahm, died in California at the age of 98 in 2008.

Direct flights between Victoria and the San Francisco Bay Area ( San Francisco, Oakland, Silicon Valley ) began service on June 5, 2008 ( Victoria Times Colonist, February 6, 2008 ).

West Jet started a direct flight service to Las Vegas, Nevada, three times per week, on September 9, 2008 ( Victoria Times Colonist, May 29, 2008 ).

The majority of the retail and residential section of Doc Fictoria ( Victoria Dock ) was opened in 2008.

* June 2008 Uganda to buy a new train ferry for Lake Victoria for about $ 9m.

Based in the lavishly decorated former Officers ' Mess of Eastney Barracks ( built in the 1860s for the Royal Marine Artillery ), the Museum includes The Making of the Royal Marines Commando exhibition, opened in 2008, and a refurbished Medal Room with over 8, 000 medals earned by Royal Marines-including all 10 Victoria Crosses won by them.

As of 2008, the country has just under 350 growers, annually producing around 1, 200 metric tons of chestnuts, of which 80 % comes from northeast Victoria.

This team, which has the Victoria Someşeni Stadium as its home ground, reached the quarter-finals of the Romanian Cup during the 2007 – 2008 season, its best performance.

* Used as Windsor Castle in the Doctor Who episode Silver Nemesis ( 1988 ), in The Madness of King George ( 1994 ), in Victoria & Albert ( 2001 TV serial ), and in The Young Victoria ( 2008 ).

In October 2008, Telus was named one of BC's Top Employers by Mediacorp Canada Inc., which was announced by The Vancouver Sun, The Province and the Victoria Times-Colonist.

In 2008 Transrapid Australia quoted the Victoria ( Australia ) State Government A $ 34 million per km for dual track

In 2008 Transrapid Australia quoted the Victoria ( Australia ) State Government between A $ 16. 5 million ( commuter ) and A $ 20 million ( luxury ) per trains section or carriage

On 19 June 2008, the Melbourne Museum released the findings of the forensic investigation conducted by Dr. Ivan Kempson, University of South Australia, and Dermot Henry, Natural Science Collections at Museum Victoria.

According to a survey of teachers in the U. K. conducted in 2008 by the Association of Teachers and Lecturers young people frequently chose role models from celebrity culture such as David and Victoria Beckham or Paris Hilton and emulate their appearance and manner.

* Meray, Tibor ( 2008 ), On Burchett, Callistemon Publications, Kallista, Victoria.

* Origins of the Liberty of Ely, Victoria County History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 4 ( British History Online ), accessed 6 January 2008

* Victoria ( domestic partnership status provided since 2001 and a " registry system " has been provided since 2008 ).

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

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.

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.