In contrast, on July 21, 2010, in a lawsuit involving whether college cheerleading qualified as a sport for purposes of Title IX, a federal court, citing a current lack of program development and organization, ruled that it does not, but may in the future.

They were convicted of theft and trespass in September 2010 by the Aomori district court.

Together with John Pilger and Jemima Khan, Ken Loach was among the six people in court willing to offer surety for Julian Assange when he was arrested in London on 7 December 2010.

On June 9, 2010, Rothstein received a 50-year prison sentence after a hearing in federal court in Fort Lauderdale.

In July 2010, the Puntland Council of Ministers unanimously approved a new anti-terrorism law to more efficiently handle terror suspects and their accomplices ; a special court is also expected to be established within the region's existing criminal courts system to facilitate the task.

Mudawi and SUDO appealed their closure in court, winning the appeal in April 2010.

In July 2011, the magazine was sued for defamation in United States district court for a July 12, 2010 article written by David Grann.

In 2010, Monkey House Games published a new edition of the game although according to the lawsuit filed in U. S. Federal court, Arizona District, ( Case no.

In Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, on Jan, 2010, the US Supreme court ruled that corporations and unions can not constitutionally be prohibited from promoting the election of one candidate over another candidate.

Bono's legal transition was completed on May 8, 2010, when a California court granted his request for a gender and name change.

On November 2, 2010, a Dutch court ruled against Sanrio and ordered the company to stop marketing Cathy products in Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands.

British Columbia will implement similar reforms on July 1, 2010, although the new Rule 7-2 ( 2 ) can be read in two ways, it appears to be that each party can examine each other party for a maximum of 7 hours unless the court orders otherwise.

In October 2010, Subway franchisees in the UK lost a high court appeal against paying standard VAT on all toasted subs, as required by HM Revenue and Customs.

Prince settled the case out of court in February 2010 for $ 2. 95 million.

On November 12, 2010, in a unanimous decision, the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Boston affirmed a ruling by a New Hampshire lower federal court which found that the pledge's reference to God doesn't violate students ' rights.

The Valukas Report by bankruptcy court examiner, Anton R. Valukas, issued on 11 March 2010, charged that Lehman Brothers engaged in a practice known as repo 105 and that Ernst & Young, Lehman's auditor, was aware of it.

During 2010, the court examiner's review of the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy also brought these instruments back into focus, as Lehman had used an instrument called " Repo 105 " to allegedly move assets and debt off-balance sheet to make its financial position look more favorable to investors.

As of 2010, there were 678 authorized district court judgeships.

On the court, the 2010 – 11 season was a stark contrast from the previous season.

Furthermore, a special court set up personally by Karzai in defiance of constitutional norms has sought to reinstate dozens of candidates who were removed for fraud in the 2010 parliamentary elections by the Independent Electoral Commission.

In 2010, Robertson lost the lawsuit with the court saying the site did not infringe on any trademarks and was protected as free speech.

However, a state court ruled on November 24, 2010, that both Alexandria and Newport are county seats after all.

An audit by the Office of Inspector General ( OIG ) ( November 2010 ) of the Justice Department found " weaknesses in the USMS's efforts to secure federal court facilities in the six USMS district offices we visited ".

In February 2010, a Swiss court agreed to release more than US $ 4 million to Jean-Claude Duvalier, although the Swiss Foreign Ministry said it would continue to block the release of the money.

Such is the case with the Black Sea invasion of the natural hybrid Pelophylax esculentus reported in 2010.

* 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 only exception to this rule is New Year's Day, in which case alcohol sales are permitted until 4 a. m. Alcohol sale was likewise banned on Sundays until 12p. m., and on Dec. 25 from 12 a. m. until 12 p. m, until a repeal in late 2010.

The case has attracted criticism, both after 2003 tests and after the recent 2010 tests.

It contains a ‘ sunset clause ’, and it will automatically cease to have effect on November 1, 2010, unless the legislature decides to prolong the law, or extend it to other mass civil case proceedings.

On June 1, 2010, in deciding the Berghuis v. Thompkins case, the United States Supreme Court declared that criminal defendants who have been read the Miranda rights ( and who have indicated they understand them and have not already waived them ), must explicitly state during or before an interrogation begins that they wish to be silent and not speak to police for that protection against self-incrimination to apply.

In February 2010, Larrikin Music Publishing won a case against the group arising from the uncredited appropriation of " Kookaburra ", originally written in 1934 by Marion Sinclair and for which they owned the publishing rights, as the flute line in the song " Down Under ".

A Discovery Channel TV documentary titled, Undercover: Operation Harvest King, which documents Mark Whitacre's role in the ADM price fixing case aired several times during 2009 and 2010, where Discovery Channel interviewed the three FBI agents who handled the Mark Whitacre / ADM case ( i. e., Dean Paisley, Brian Shepard and Robert Herndon ), along with Mark and Ginger Whitacre.

In June 2010, the first case report appeared of a PML patient being successfully treated with mefloquine.

* Robert J. Stevens ( born 1941 or 1942 ), exonerated defendant associated with 2010 U. S. Supreme Court case United States v. Stevens

In the 2010 WebcamGate case, plaintiffs charged two suburban Philadelphia high schools secretly spied on students by surreptitiously and remotely activating webcams embedded in school-issued laptops the students were using at home, and therefore infringed on their privacy rights.

Argued Oct. 26, 2010 — March 11, 2011. trade secrets case involving Kevlar fiber, resulting in award to DuPont of ~ US $ 920 million.

On May 5, 2010 the Supreme Court of India in the case " Smt.

Another English case in 2009, R v Wilkins ( 2010 ), resulted in a man who filmed his intercourse with five of his lovers for his own private viewing, being sentenced to imprisonment for eight months and ordered to sign the Sex Offenders Register, where his name would remain for ten years.

He has never been found but the case was reopened in the year 2010.

Another famous case is the self-immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi, a Tunisian street vendor who set himself on fire on December 17, 2010, an act that was a catalyst for Tunisian Revolution and sparked Arab Spring, including several men who emulated Bouazizi's act.

The case was shelved in 2010, because of a law passed in 2009 that restricted High Court investigations to those " involving Spanish victims, suspects who are in Spain, or some other obvious link with Spain ".

On February 4, 2010, at his war crimes trial in the Hague, Taylor testified that Robertson was his main political ally in the U. S., and that he had volunteered to make Liberia's case before U. S. administration officials in exchange for concessions to Robertson's Freedom Gold, Ltd., to which Taylor gave a contract to mine gold in southeast Liberia.

( The next such case was Julia Gillard, Prime Minister from 24 June 2010, who has a domestic partner but is unmarried.

The phenotype of such an individual is a matter of speculation ; as of 2010, no such documented case has been published.

* Chandra Levy case timeline ( 2000 – 2010 ) at The Washington Post

In 2010 Amnesty International " strongly condemned a worrying attack on a Rwandan opposition group " in the lead-up to presidential elections, citing the case of Victoire Ingasbire, president of the FDU-Inkingi ( United Democratic Forces ) and her aide Joseph Ntawangundi, attacked in February 2010 while collecting party registration documents from a government building in Kigali.