Supreme Court blocks Mississippi lethal injection execution
am 01.11.2007 von http://log.handakte.de/The US Supreme Court [official website] granted a stay of execution [order, PDF] to a convicted murderer on Mississippi’s death row Tuesday, pending the Court’s decision on whether to grant certiorari in the case. Earl Wesley Berry was scheduled to die by lethal injection Tuesday night; his was the third stay granted by the justices since they agreed last month in Baze v. Rees (07-5439) [docket; cert. petition] to hear a challenge to the use of lethal injections [JURIST news archive] as a form of “cruel …
OH Supreme Court ruling gives grandparents visitation rights
Handakte WebLAWg / [Via JURIST] Leading Monday’s states brief, the Ohio Supreme Court unanimously ruled [PDF text] today that grandparent visitation can be awarded over the wishes of the child’s parents as Ohio law requires courts to balance the best intere…
Docket Review v. Privacy
German American Law Journal :: American Edition / CK - Washington. Based on a pending trademark application, the applicant complained with a cease and desist demand of the improper use of the mark Moon by a third party, but later withdrew the application. In response, the target of the dema…
Identity of EU file sharers should be protected in civil suits: ECJ advisor
Handakte WebLAWg / European Court of Justice Advocate General Juliane Kokott [official profile] told the European Court of Justice (ECJ) [official website] in an advisory opinion [text, in German] Wednesday that European Union (EU) governments should resist disclosing…
Giftspritze ist für US-Richter keine grausame Strafe
Handakte WebLAWg / In einem Grundsatzurteil zur Todesstrafe hat das Oberste Gericht der USA die Hinrichtung per Giftspritze für rechtens erklärt. Die Hinrichtungsart verstoße nicht gegen das in der US-Verfassung festgeschriebene Verbot “grausamer und unüblich…
Execution / Ausfertigung
Transblawg / to execute a will = ausfertigen Dietl has this right a lot of the time, but it does have Testamentsvollstreckung: execution of a will Dangerous! Romain knows better: executorship (but probably one can manage without the abstract noun). Take tha…
New Batch of Supreme Judges
German American Law Journal :: American Edition / CK - Washington. Today, the federal election committee for the judiciary, Bundeswahlausschuss, elected several batches of justices for the various supreme courts. It chose six justices for the Bundesgerichtshof which is the supreme court for civil…
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