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In 2009 a federal court of appeals in San Francisco found that Ashcroft could be sued and held personally responsible for the wrongful detention of material witness Abdullah al-Kidd – an American citizen arrested in March 2003 and held for 13 months in maximum security to be used as a witness in the trial of Sami Omar Al-Hussayen ( who himself was acquitted of all charges of supporting terrorism ).
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The most recent election, the German federal election, 2009, was held on September 27, 2009.
As of June 18, 2009, a regional federal court order lifting the prohibition on the sale of Counter-Strike was published.
As of March 21, 2009 a federal judge says members of the church in Ashland can import, distribute and brew ayahuasca.
It has been in federal government longer than any other party, as the junior coalition partner to either the CDU / CSU ( 1949 – 56, 1961 – 66, 1982 – 98, and since 2009 ) or the Social Democratic Party ( 1969 – 82 ).
The FDP retained their seats in the state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia, which was held six months after the federal election, but out of the seven state elections that have been held since 2009, the FDP have lost all their seats in five of them due to failing to cross the 5 % threshold.
In November 2008, the SPD re-elected Franz Müntefering as its chairman and made Frank-Walter Steinmeier its leading candidate for the federal election in September 2009.
In the 2009 federal elections, the party won 10. 7 % of the votes and 68 out of 622 seats in the Bundestag.
Map showing Alliance 90 / The Greens vote in each of the German constituencies at the German federal election, 2009
In June 2010, in the first state election following the victory of the CDU / CSU and FDP in the 2009 federal election, the " black-yellow " CDU-FDP coalition in North Rhine-Westphalia under Jürgen Rüttgers lost its majority.
A federal judge agreed, throwing out all claims related to McNamee's statements to investigators on February 13, 2009 but allowing the case to proceed on statements McNamee made about Clemens to Pettitte.
After Washington prosecutors showed " a renewed interest in the case in the final months of 2008 ," a federal grand jury was convened in January 2009 to hear evidence of Clemens ' possible perjury before Congress.
In the United States, where analog shutdown was completed in 2009 for full-service broadcasters, a federal subsidy was offered for coupon-eligible converter boxes with deliberately-limited capability which would restore signals lost to digital transition.
In June 2009, Governor John de Jongh, Jr. rejected the resulting draft constitution, saying that the document " violates federal law, fails to defer to federal sovereignty and disregards basic civil rights ".
As an example, the 2009 arrest of an illegal immigrant from El Salvador in the murder of federal intern Chandra Levy saw many questions arise surrounding the credibility of various witnesses.
Following the 2009 redistribution of New South Wales federal elecorates, the Division of Prospect was renamed the Division of McMahon starting at the 2010 federal election.
In the absence of official reports on the full cost of the monarchy, the Monarchist League of Canada regularly issues a survey based on various federal and provincial budgets, expenditures, and estimates ; the 2009 edition found that the institution cost Canadians roughly $ 50 million in 2008.
With the passage of the Farm Bill in the summer of 2008 these expanded federal income tax incentives were extended such that they also apply to all conservation easements donated in 2008 and 2009 and then this provision was extended again to apply to donations in 2010 and 2011.
Although the CDU / CSU lost support in the 2009 federal elections, the FDP experienced the best election cycle in their history, thereby enabling a CDU / CSU-FDP coalition.
The SPD last governed at the federal level in a grand coalition with the Christian Democratic Union and the Christian Social Union from 2005 until 27 October 2009.
The SPD conceded defeat in the federal election of September 2009, with its share of votes having dropped from 34. 2 % to 23 %, compared to 2005, and became the largest opposition party represented in the Bundestag.
At the 2009 federal election, the party lost its only constituency in the entire state of Bavaria ( in Munich ).
2009 and court
Following a protracted legal process culminating in a court ruling favorable to the Bahá ' ís, the interior minister of Egypt released a decree on April 14, 2009, amending the law to allow Egyptians who are not Muslim, Christian, or Jewish to obtain identification documents that list dash in place of one of the three recognized religions.
Chadwick had been imprisoned for nine years at that time and continued to be held in prison until 2009, when a state court set him free after 14 years, making his imprisonment the longest on a contempt charge to date.
The Australian state of Victoria maintained, until 2009, provisions for a grand jury in the Crimes Act 1958 under section 354 Indictments, which had been used on rare occasions by individuals to bring other persons to court seeking them to be committed for trial on indictable offences.
In April 2009, the New York Times reported on a document revealed in court as part of a lawsuit.
By 2009, a Taliban-led shadow government began to form in many parts of the country complete with their own version of mediation court.
In January 2009, a court in Amsterdam ordered the prosecution of Geert Wilders, a Dutch Member of Parliament, for breaching articles 137c and 137d.
Fewer than a third of all Russians regarded Stalin as a " murderous tyrant "; however, a Russian court in 2009, ruling on a suit by Stalin's grandson, Yevgeny Dzhugashvili, against the newspaper, Novaya Gazeta, ruled that referring to Stalin as a " bloodthirsty cannibal " was not libel.
In English law it is usually created by the decision of a higher court, such as the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, which took over the judicial functions of the House of Lords in 2009.
The Bankruptcy court scheduled continuing proceedings and hearings for June 3 and 24, 2009, and July 22, 2009.
For example, in Caperton v. A. T. Massey Coal Co. ( 2009 ), the Court ruled that a justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia had to recuse himself from a case involving a major contributor to his campaign for election to that court.
The House of Lords was replaced as the final court of appeal on civil cases within the United Kingdom on 1 October 2009, by the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.
In 2009, an independent study by Duke University into alleged racism found " no evidence that the ( assisted outpatient treatment ) Program is disproportionately selecting African Americans for court orders, nor is there evidence of a disproportionate effect on other minority populations.
The suit was settled out of court, and on June 2, 2009 Psion announced that the company was withdrawing all of its trademark registrations for the term " Netbook " and that Psion agreed to " waive all its rights against third parties in respect of past, current or future use " of the term.
The local court serves the town and the rest of North West Wales, and in 2009 moved to a multi-million pound court complex on Llanberis Road.
The old court buildings, replaced in 2009 by a new complex designed by HOK on the former Segontium School site in Llanberis Road, are situated inside the castle walls, next door to the Anglesey Arms Hotel and to the Gwynedd County Council Buildings in Pendeitch.
In December 2009 a court in London issued an arrest warrant for Tzipi Livni in connection with accusations of war crimes in the Gaza Strip during Operation Cast Lead ( 2008 – 2009 ).
In October 2009 promoters MCD Productions went to court to sue Prince for € 1. 6 million, after paying him $ 1. 5 million, half his agreed fee of $ 3 million for the concert.
A high court in the Indian capital, Delhi ruled on 2 July 2009, that homosexual intercourse between consenting adults was not a criminal act.
As of 2009, 46 states allow a person legally to change names by usage alone, with no paperwork, but a court order may be required for many institutions ( such as banks or government institutions ) to officially accept the change.
An initial decision of the commercial court, on 23 February 2009, finds that that offer was indeed illegal but, on 14 May 2009, a second decision on appeal holds that the Orange Sport offer is not included in the tied-selling ; Orange resumes the marketing of the channel the next day.
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