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Melbourne woman liable for $3m damages over housemaid sex slavery

March 5, 2015, 8:28 pm

A Melbourne woman found liable for slavery and complicity in her husband's alleged repeated sexual assault of their house maid has had a $3.3 million damages judgment made against her in the US...

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Formula One driver Giedo van Der Garde takes Sauber F1 team to court to...

March 5, 2015, 9:04 pm

Dutch Formula One driver Giedo van Der Garde has appealed to the Victorian Supreme Court to grant him an urgent hearing to force the Sauber F1 team to re-instate him as a driver. Reported by Brisbane...

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Battered ex avoids jail, weeps with relief

March 6, 2015, 5:38 am

DOMESTIC violence victim Jessica Silva wept uncontrollably with relief in the Supreme Court yesterday when she found out she would avoid jail time for the manslaughter of her abusive ex-boyfriend....

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Apple, Google, hundreds of other US companies file court brief in support of...

March 6, 2015, 7:55 am

A mass of 379 companies including Apple, Facebook, Google and Microsoft have filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court expressing their support for same-sex marriage, in advance of a landmark April...

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Alabama Supreme Court Says Enough! Defies State Ruling & Orders a ‘Stop’ to...

March 6, 2015, 10:00 am

*In a bodacious act of defiance, the Alabama Supreme Court has ordered all of the state’s probate judges to cease the issuance of marriage licenses to same-sex couples. This is the latest in what...

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Obama administration files brief with US Supreme Court backing same-sex...

March 6, 2015, 2:21 pm

Reported by Breaking News 2 hours ago.

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Brazil political leaders probed in Petrobras graft scandal

March 6, 2015, 4:06 pm

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's Supreme Court has agreed to investigate dozens of politicians, including the top leaders of Congress, in connection with a multibillion-dollar kickback scam at state-run...

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Petrobras graft probe snags top Brazilian politicians

March 6, 2015, 4:36 pm

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's Supreme Court will investigate the speakers of both houses of Congress and more than two dozen other politicians in connection with a multibillion-dollar kickback scheme...

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Trial of Ian Thomas, accused of killing mother, father, to move to Melbourne

February 26, 2015, 4:35 pm

A Supreme Court judge has decided with ‘‘considerable regret’’ to shift from Wangaratta to Melbourne the trial of a man accused of murdering his parents in the north-eastern Victorian town. Reported by...

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Formula One driver Giedo van Der Garde takes Sauber F1 team to court to...

March 6, 2015, 5:11 pm

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Palmer denied cash injection

March 8, 2015, 3:35 am

CLIVE Palmer has suffered another bruising defeat in his legal war against Chinese corporate giant Citic, with a Supreme Court rejecting his demand. Reported by The Australian 15 hours ago.

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UK Supreme Court waves through indiscriminate police surveillance

March 8, 2015, 9:56 am

Reported by The Register 8 hours ago.

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Morgan Huxley's accused murderer Daniel Kelsall a timid bookworm, court hears

March 8, 2015, 9:25 pm

Daniel Jack Kelsall's father and his former boss from the Sydney Cooking School have given a NSW Supreme Court jury insight into what the former kitchen hand and cleaner was like. Reported by Sydney...

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