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WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom has won the right to demand the United States hand over all the evidence in its online piracy case against the internet entrepreneur, New Zealand's Supreme Court ruled on Thursday.
reuters.com (9 days ago)
New Zealand's Supreme Court on Thursday granted Megaupload leave to appeal a ruling that denied it access to evidence the U.S. government holds. The permission gives Megaupload another chance to make its case to see a wide range of evidence it contends is necessary prior to extradition hearings scheduled for August for its founder, Kim Dotcom, and three colleagues. The...
pcworld.com (9 days ago)

Hundreds of pro- and anti-gay-marriage activists are camped out in front of the U.S. Supreme Court Building in the hopes of getting inside to witness arguments in two potentially groundbreaking civil rights cases that will be heard Tuesday and Wednesday.
nydailynews.com (2 months and 1 day ago)

NICK Greiner was "evasive and hostile" in presenting evidence in a case involving allegations of bid-rigging, according to a Federal Court judge.
news.com.au (2 months and 1 day ago)

The Supreme Court could use secret evidence in a ruling for the first time in a landmark case this week despite previously banning such material from civil courts.
telegraph.co.uk (2 months and 9 days ago)
With lawyers claiming there were several instances of blatant voter fraud, the Supreme Court began hearing evidence on the March 7 election.
nytimes.com (2 months ago)
People are already lining up at the Supreme Court in hopes of getting a seat to witness history. Arguments over the right to same-sex marriage start Tuesday.
palmbeachpost.com (2 months and 2 days ago)
WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom has won the right to demand the United States hand over all the evidence in its online piracy case against the internet entrepreneur, New Zealand's Supreme Court ruled on Thursday. The ruling by New Zealand's highest court is a minor victory for Dotcom, a resident of the country who along with six associates is facing...
yahoo.com (9 days ago)
South Carolina and a handful of other states have a lot at stake in a voting rights case to be argued before the Supreme Court on Wednesday. For 48 years, the Justice Department has scrutinized each election procedure in the state, no matter how small, for evidence it might discriminate against minority voters. The case before the Supreme Court asks justices to declare that...
greenvilleonline.com (2 months and 28 days ago)
The Supreme Court this week ruled that a group of American lawyers lack standing to challenge the 2008 law that expanded the U.S. government’s authority to engage in electronic surveillance of overseas aliens suspected of terrorism. To hear the reaction of the ACLU and other civil liberties groups to the decision in Clapper v. Amesty International, one would think that the...
forbes.com (2 months and 26 days ago)
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