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.

The protest ended in September 2008 after a lengthy court process.

On January 17, 2008, a Brazilian federal court order prohibiting all sales of Counter-Strike and EverQuest and imposing the immediate withdrawal of these from all stores began to be enforced.

Dismissed by the district court, the case was heard on appeal and the Ninth Circuit issued its ruling on May 21, 2008.

In September, 2008, the three Santo Daime churches filed suit in federal court to gain legal status to import DMT-containing ayahuasca tea.

Nevertheless, they divorced in August 2008, citing irreconcilable differences, but according to a court petition later filed by Price, continued to live together as husband and wife until his death.

However, Price and Coleman married in 2007 ; and while they divorced in 2008, Price claimed in a court petition that she remained Coleman's common-law wife, sharing bank accounts and presenting themselves publicly as husband and wife, until his death ; an assertion that, if validated by the court, would make her the lawful heir.

In August 2008, Bradley Blakeman, a former aide to George W. Bush, filed a copyright lawsuit in federal court on Long Island over Grammer's movie Swing Vote, claiming that parts of its plot and marketing had been stolen from him.

In July 2008, Majdi Rahima Rimawi was convicted of murder by an Israeli court for his part in planning the assassination.

In December 2008, an Israeli military court sentenced Ahmad Sa ' adat, leader of the Palestinian Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( PFLP ), to 30 years in prison for heading an " illegal terrorist organization " and for his responsibility for all actions carried out by his organization.

In August 2008, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review ruled that the President and the Congress had the authority to wiretap international phone calls and intercept e-mail messages without a specific court order.

Kyoto held a year-long celebration commemorating the 1000th anniversary of Genji in 2008, with poetry competitions, visits to the Tale of Genji Museum in Uji and Ishiyama-dera ( where a life size rendition of Murasaki at her desk was displayed ), and women dressing in traditional 12-layered Heian court and ankle-length hair wigs.

On June 27, 2008, Indonesian Sulaiman Damanik, 26, pleaded guilty in a Singapore court for sale of his kidney to CK Tang's executive chair, Mr. Tang Wee Sung, 55, for 150 million rupiah ( US $ 17, 000 ).

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 2008, a WCAL advocate group took St. Olaf College to court for breach of trust for selling the radio station.

They lost Game 1 88 – 79, but won in game two on the road, 103 – 97 ( marking Boston's first home court loss in the 2008 postseason ).

Madison Square Garden's pre-transformation food court on the sixth floor, seen in March 2008.

* 2008: The Kids for Cash scandal resulted in federal convictions and sentences of juvenile court judges Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan.

The court square in Newnan, GA was transformed into a battlezone on Sunday, March 29, 2008.

In January 2008, the Tennessee Court of Appeals ruled that even though " the trial court accurately characterized conduct attributable to Crosby as ' bigotry, sexism, or utter foolishness '", the plaintiff failed to prove by " clear and convincing evidence " that Crosby " knowingly or willfully " committed the type of misconduct essential to establish the requisite statutory grounds to remove a public official from office.

“ The Town of Sunnyvale received an order from Honorable Judge Reed O ’ Connor regarding the Dews vs Town of Sunnyvale case, finding the Town in contempt of court for its failure to implement the Settlement Stipulation in the case by April 15, 2008.

November 25, 2008: Carmen Dominicci and Fernando del Rincón sign divorce papers in a court in Miami, Florida, U. S. A.

December 12, 2008: Carmen Dominicci denounces the act of domestic violence in a court in the Dominican Republic.

Congress addressed these issues in the Military Commissions Act of 2006, so that enemy combatants and unlawful enemy combatants might be tried under military commissions ; however, on 12 June 2008, the Supreme Court ruled, in Boumediene v. Bush, that Guantanamo Bay captives were entitled to access the US justice system, and that the military commissions as constituted under the Military Commissions Act of 2006 fell short of what was required of a court under the United States constitution ( see the section below for more details ).

* 2010 – California's Proposition 8, the ballot initiative prohibiting same-sex marriage passed by the state's voters in 2008, is overturned by Judge Vaughn Walker in the case Perry v. Schwarzenegger.

The electronic edition was available without charge, as an open access journal, but since 2008 this is no longer the case.

In reviewing the 2008 Menier Chocolate Factory production, The Telegraph reviewer wrote that " Sondheim's lyrics are often superbly witty, his music here, mostly in haunting waltz-time, far more accessible than is sometimes the case.

In the case of metastatic breast cancer, a Cochrane Review published in 2008 maintained that the current body of evidence is not sufficient to rule out the possibility that psychological interventions may cause harm to women with this advanced neoplasm.

In this case the specific name marinus changes to marina in order to conform with the rules of gender agreement as set out by the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature changing the binomial name from Bufo marinus to Rhinella marina ; the binomial Rhinella marinus was subsequently introduced as a synonym through misspelling by Pramuk, Robertson, Sites, and Noonan ( 2008 ).

Two 2008 case studies show that the layout of a system provides a strong correlation to the ease of use for a system and that it proved more beneficial for the design to focus on presenting information in a way that reflected the most important goals and tasks of the user, rather than the structure of the organization.

Allowing users to test developing products can have its limits in effectiveness, as the culture of the industry and desired outcomes can affect the effect on CRM creation, as a 2008 case study suggests that the responsiveness of test users can vary dramatically depending on the industry and field of the user.

Many other director's cut music videos contain sexual content that can't be shown on TV thus creating alternative scenes, such as 30 Seconds to Mars's Hurricane, and in some cases, alternative videos, such as in the case of Spears ' 2008 video for Womanizer.

The U. S. Supreme Court upheld the 8th Circuit Court's decision by declining to hear the case in June 2008.

In 2008, two Greenpeace anti-whaling activists, Junichi Sato and Toru Suzuki, stole a case of whale meat from a delivery depot in Aomori prefecture, Japan.

In 2008, Florida police declared the Walsh case closed, naming Toole, who died in prison in 1996, as the killer.

This has been the case in June 2004, in the wake of the US Space Exploration Initiative, and in September 2008 in preparation of the ESA ministerial counsel.

This was most recently the case during the 2008 – 09 season, to celebrate 40 years since it was worn for the club's first European Cup win in 1968.

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.

A last case of corruption was the 2008 Peru oil scandal.

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.

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.

Dr. McKay's case review in the Annals of Emergency Medicine noted 41 Segway injuries between April 2005 and November 2008 among GWU emergency room patients.

In this case, the article in the July 21, 2008 issue about Obama did not discuss the attacks and rumors but rather Obama's political career.

On October 1, 2008, the Court declined to reconsider its opinion in this case, but did amend the majority and dissenting opinions in order to acknowledge that federal law.

An outbreak in Paraguay in 2008 was first feared to be urban in nature, but this ultimately proved not to be the case.

** During a severe thunderstorm over Washington, a man calling himself D. B. Cooper parachutes from the Northwest Orient Airlines plane he hijacked, with US $ 200, 000 in ransom money, and is never seen again ( as of March 2008, this case remains the only unsolved skyjacking in history ).

* Twenty percent of U. S. homicides occur in four cities with just 6 % of the population — New York, Chicago, Detroit, and Washington, D. C .— and each has or, in the cases of Detroit ( until 2001 ) and D. C. ( 2008 ) had, a requirement for a license on private handguns or an effective outright ban ( in the case of Chicago ).

On 13 October 2008, his son Guillaume died at the age of 37 from complications linked to a sudden case of pneumonia.