Judge clears Universal in race bias case
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Universal Pictures did not engage in racial discrimination when it fired a black assistant director from the film "2 Fast 2 Furious," a federal judge ruled.
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THE International Cricket Council (ICC) has cleared the Zimbabwe Cricket Union (ZCU) of racism, ending desperate attempts by some of the rebel cricketers, who were fired in May, to force their way back into the national team.
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TOKYO : Japan&#39;s Supreme Court cleared the way for UFJ Holdings and Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group to merge by rejecting a bid to halt the deal by Sumitomo Trust and Banking, a court spokeswoman said.
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A black assistant director fired from the set of the Universal Pictures film "2 Fast 2 Furious" has settled his racial discrimination suit with the studio for an unspecified sum.
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A Canadian women's fitness gym was cleared on Tuesday of charges that it illegally discriminated against a man by barring him from becoming a customer.
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The judge ruled in the industry group's favor because the Web site operators tampered with evidence.
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A federal judge ruled  Wednesday that Universal can open its crime thriller "Alpha  Dog" in wide release as planned January 12, despite objections  from murder suspect Jesse James Hollywood.
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More than 20 years ago, federal Judge Bruce Van Sickle issued a landmark decision that led to the release of hundreds of mentally retarded people from two North Dakota institutions. Now, 87 years old and stricken with Alzheimer's, the retired judge is himself at the center of a legal fight to remove him from an institution.
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A federal judge dismissed charges  against a New York record store owner on Friday who had been  selling unauthorized recordings of concerts, saying a law  against boot-legging was unconstitutional.
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CHICAGO - A federal bankruptcy judge on Friday ruled against United Airlines in a procedural dispute, siding with unions who said the company submitted unsubstantiated claims about how employees would be affected if their pension programs were terminated.
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A Turkish judge acquitted a prominent  author on Thursday in a case seen as a fresh test of freedom of  expression in the European Union candidate nation.
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Hollinger International&#39;s $US1.25billion ($1.7 billion) legal action alleging racketeering against former chief executive Conrad Black and businesses he controlled was dismissed by a US federal judge last Friday.
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Chinese courts on Friday ruled against a blind activist and a researcher for The New York Times in two cases that have attracted international attention as examples of government retribution against dissent.
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A judge has dismissed an exonerated prisoner's claim that investigators and a prosecutor violated his civil rights by framing him in a murder for which he spent 17 years on death row.
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By Messenger-Inquirer, Owensboro, Ky.  Dec. 8--In 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Brown vs. the Board of Education that racial segregation in public schools violated the 14th amendment to the Constitution, which guarantees all citizens equal protection of the laws.
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A Turkish judge acquitted a prominent   author on Thursday in a case seen as a fresh test of freedom of   expression in the European Union candidate nation.
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Public schools cannot use race to decide where students attend classes, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday in a significant civil rights decision that may affect millions of students nationwide.