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# Supreme Court

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May 2023
# Ukraine
Ukraine supreme court chief detained in $2.7 million corruption probe
Prosecutors said that members of the court were bribed by a billionaire in exchange for a favourable ruling.
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May 16th 2023, 3:18 PM
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2023
# U2 ltd
Man suing U2 over song wants Supreme Court to compel Adam Clayton to answer questions
Maurice Kiely is suing U2 Ltd, a limited liability company linked to the band.
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Apr 19th 2023, 2:37 PM
# Abortion Rights
Florida governor Ron DeSantis signs bill banning abortion after six weeks
The state’s Republican-dominated legislature passed the text hours earlier with 70 votes to 40.
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Apr 14th 2023, 7:24 AM
# Seanad Éireann
Supreme Court rules that Seanad University panel elections are unconstitutional
Six members of Seanad Eireann are elected by graduates from specified universities in Ireland.
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Mar 31st 2023, 2:00 PM
# Elaine O'Hara
Court dismisses Graham Dwyer’s appeal against murder conviction
Dwyer launched an appeal on numerous grounds, including the admissibility of mobile phone data evidence.
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Mar 24th 2023, 12:54 PM
# Patrick Quirke
Supreme Court rules seizure of computer from home of convicted murderer Quirke was 'unlawful'
The judgment of the seven member Supreme Court was delivered this morning.
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Mar 20th 2023, 11:56 AM
# Widower's Pension
Supreme Court to hear appeal against refusal to grant widower’s pension to an unmarried father
The Supreme Court panel said John O’Meara and his three children’s challenge raises points of general public importance.
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Feb 21st 2023, 7:40 PM
# Brexit
UK Supreme Court challenge on lawfulness of Northern Ireland protocol is dismissed
The appellants argued that the legislation passed at Westminster to give effect to the Withdrawal Agreement conflicts with the 1800 Acts of Union.
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Feb 8th 2023, 10:03 AM
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2022
# Same-Sex Marriage
US Senate passes landmark bill to protect same-sex marriage
‘Love is love, and Americans should have the right to marry the person they love,’ said Biden after the vote.
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Nov 30th 2022, 7:29 AM
# Courts
Attorney General to step down from his role in coming weeks
Paul Gallagher has held the role for two years under the current Government.
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Nov 25th 2022, 6:34 PM
# Supreme Court
Government must take time to examine CETA judgement, says Varadkar
The Tánaiste said that it wasn’t the result that the Government had expected.
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Nov 16th 2022, 6:27 PM
# rock and a hard place
Why the letters CETA now spell trouble for the Government
Today’s Supreme Court decision could bring Green unease to a head.
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Nov 11th 2022, 5:58 PM
Voices
Opinion: Today's ruling vindicates Costello's decision to take Ceta to the Supreme Court
Assistant Professor of Law David Kenny says today’s Supreme Court judgement on the trade deal shows how seriously the highest court took the case.
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Nov 11th 2022, 4:12 PM
# Referendum
CETA: Supreme Court rules trade deal cannot be ratified by Oireachtas unless law is changed
If the legislation is amended, a referendum on the matter could be avoided.
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Nov 11th 2022, 2:30 PM
# US
Trump asks Supreme Court to intervene over classified documents seized in Mar-a-Lago raid
A US court last month allowed the Justice Department to resume its use of the documents as part of its ongoing criminal investigation.
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Oct 4th 2022, 11:04 PM
# Kenya
Kenya court upholds WiIliam Ruto's presidential election after claims of fraud
The verdict dealt a blow to challenger Raila Odinga who had alleged fraud and filed a petition against the poll outcome.
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Sep 5th 2022, 6:31 PM
# Archie Battersbee
UK court upholds decision to withdraw 12-year-old's life sustaining treatment
Archie was found unconscious at his home by his mother on 7 April and has not regained consciousness since.
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Aug 2nd 2022, 5:51 PM
# Supreme Court
Supreme Court clears way for Hutch and Dowdall murder trials to proceed before Special Criminal Court
Both men are charged with the murder of David Byrne at the Regency Hotel in 2016.
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Jul 29th 2022, 11:43 AM
# Roe v Wade
Biden administration says US doctors must offer abortion if mother’s life at risk
Officials say federal law on emergency treatment guidelines pre-empts state laws in jurisdictions that now ban abortion.
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Jul 11th 2022, 11:05 PM
# st luke's kilkenny
Supreme Court to hear HSE's appeal over decision to lift consultant doctor's suspension
The Court of Appeal ruled that Prof Ray O’Sullivan was entitled to return to his job that he was suspended from on foot of the complaints against him in 2019.
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Jul 8th 2022, 6:36 PM
# Abortion
US girds for second day of protest against abortion ruling
Dozens of new protests were planned Saturday from coast to coast.
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Jun 25th 2022, 4:53 PM
# Abortion Rights
Abortion clinics begin closing after US Supreme Court ruling
The court’s overturning of the landmark Roe v Wade decision is likely to lead to abortion bans across the country.
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Jun 25th 2022, 7:32 AM
# New York
Biden 'deeply disappointed' after Supreme Court says people have right to carry guns in public
The ruling strikes down a New York law that required a person to prove they had legitimate self-defence needs to receive a gun permit.
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Jun 23rd 2022, 8:15 PM
# Courts
Supreme Court dismisses teen's appeal against sexual assault conviction for smacking child's bottom
The offence occurred in 2019 when the parties were playing in a field near their homes.
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May 23rd 2022, 3:01 PM
# Roe v Wade
‘Draft opinion’ on US abortion rights authentic document but not a final decision - chief justice
The draft opinion would allow individual states to more heavily regulate or outright ban abortion.
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May 3rd 2022, 5:57 PM
# Michael D Higgins
Supreme Court rules President immune from EU regulations around public disclosure of information
The Right To Know Group brought proceedings after it failed to get certain information following two separate requests to the Office of Secretary General to the President.
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Apr 30th 2022, 1:34 PM
# Mr Moonlight
Supreme Court gives Patrick Quirke permission to appeal conviction against 'Mr Moonlight' murder
The Tipperary farmer was convicted of the murder in 2019.
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Apr 27th 2022, 12:32 PM
# Surrogacy
Supreme Court to hear appeal in case brought by fathers seeking Irish passport for their son
The boy has UK citizenship, and it is his fathers’ wish that he get an Irish passport.
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Apr 14th 2022, 6:54 PM
# Supreme Court
US Senate confirms Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court
Jackson is the first Black woman ever to serve on the Supreme Court.
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Apr 7th 2022, 8:10 PM
# court of justice
EU court rules in favour of Graham Dwyer in privacy case, paving way for murder conviction appeal
Dwyer claims that data gathered from his phone should not have been used at his trial.
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Apr 5th 2022, 11:08 AM
# jUAN Orlando Hernandez
Honduran judge rules ex-president Hernández can be extradited to US
Juan Orlando Hernández is accused of having facilitated the smuggling of some 500 tons of drugs to the US since 2014.
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Mar 17th 2022, 4:07 PM
# Pandemic response
Supreme Court reserves decision in an appeal brought by Gemma O’Doherty and John Waters
The court gave no indication as to when it would give its decision.
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Mar 15th 2022, 6:07 PM
# Naoufal Fassih
Supreme Court refers action brought by Kinahan-linked crime boss to European Court of Justice
Fassih is currently serving an 18-year prison sentence in the Netherlands after being convicted of charges including attempted murder.
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Feb 18th 2022, 5:50 PM
# Court
Supreme Court discontinues injunction requiring Traveller family to vacate council-owned land
Clare County Council had secured an injunction from the High Court.
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Jan 31st 2022, 3:24 PM
# US Court
US President to get Supreme Court pick as liberal justice Breyer set to retire
Joe Biden has pledged to name the first black woman to the US’s highest court.
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Jan 26th 2022, 8:01 PM
# London
Julian Assange wins ruling in his battle against extradition to US
The WikiLeaks founder is wanted in the US over an alleged conspiracy to disclose national defence information.
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Jan 24th 2022, 3:00 PM
# 6 january
US Supreme Court allows release of presidential documents in Capitol investigation
Donald Trump had asked that the diaries, logs and handwritten notes be withheld.
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Jan 20th 2022, 7:06 AM
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# Russia
Russian Supreme Court orders closure of prominent human rights group Memorial
The group has spent years cataloguing atrocities committed in the Soviet Union.
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Dec 28th 2021, 2:30 PM
# Courts
Contributions paid by undocumented worker cannot be counted in social welfare payments application
The Supreme Court ruled that Sharda Sobhy is not entitled to have PAYE and PRSI payments considered in her application for maternity benefit.
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Dec 16th 2021, 6:11 PM
# The Troubles
UK Supreme Court rules PSNI decision not to investigate Hooded Men case was unlawful
The ‘Hooded Men’ were detained and subjected to extreme interrogation methods in 1971.
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Dec 15th 2021, 8:00 PM
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