In 1962 the World Court ruled that Preah Vihear, which sits on a ridge, was on Cambodian soil.
After all, the Treaty identifies the World Court as one of four "arbitral tribunals" which must be used to resolve disputes under LOST.
After the executions were cleared to proceed in the US, Mexico went back to the world court last month to stop the sentences from being carried out.
Parties to the accord, moreover, are compelled to submit to what will, inevitably, be politicized tribunals like the World Court, whose decisions are binding and unappealable.
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"Texas is bound not by the World Court, but by the US Supreme Court, which reviewed this matter and determined that the convicted murderer's execution shall proceed, " the statement said.
Libya's case against both countries at the World Court continues.
If we were talking about the World Court or at least a permanent war crimes court applicable to all countries, there would be no opposition from Serbs to Milosevic's extradition.
Murrow was pulled into the great issues of the day ("Resolved, the United States should join the World Court"), and perhaps it's Ruth Lawson whom we modern broadcast journalists should thank for engaging our founder in world affairs.
In fact, while serving as the state's chief litigator, Cruz took on the George W. Bush administration, the World Court, and 90 foreign nations who challenged Texas' right to execute an illegal immigrant who had raped and murdered two teenagers in the state -- and he won.
Notably, at the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) review conference in New York where this statement was unveiled, some among the roughly 500 participating non- governmental organizations (NGOs) declared their intention to ask the World Court to order the nuclear weapon states to set a timetable for complete nuclear disarmament.
Fortunately the legality of poison pill plans was finally called into question in a case that sat before the most important business court in the world, the Delaware Chancery Court.
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John Bellinger, the State Department's legal advisor, says officials are already working out the modalities of moving the Taylor trial to the International Criminal Court, the world's first anti-war crimes tribunal and a court the U.S. opposes.
More specifically, the World Bank investment court, called the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID).
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It took a growing recognition that segregation was not only wrong, but hurting the development of this country and staining its reputation in the rest of the world, before the Court worked up the courage to outlaw it.
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Goffin, who told the crowd after the match that he had pictures of Federer on his wall as a child, was ranked 109th in the world when the clay-court tournament started but he will be up to 68th when it ends next Sunday.
"As concerned ... restrictive conditions and lack of human contact, the court found that, if the applicants were convicted as charged, the U.S. authorities would be justified in considering them a significant security risk and in imposing strict limitations on their ability to communicate with the outside world, " the court ruled.
The Italian trials, which began in 2007, were the first in the world to bring to court cases involving extraordinary rendition, the CIA's practice of transferring terror suspects to countries where torture is permitted.
It still applied in the world of international crimes, the court held.
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Finally, around the second world war, as the Supreme Court shifted its focus to civil liberties, the most important cases became those concerning freedom of speech.
What remains for certain is that as Lance Armstrong proved to the world this past month, the court of public opinion does not grant remorse to those athletes who believe that they are above the law and through lying, disrespect the very people that are responsible for their success.
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Depending on what you read, your take was either that we were approaching the end of the world wherein President Obama and the Supreme Court (SCOTUS) had bankrupted us or that this was the best thing that could ever happen to us.
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The day after the United Nations ratified a world court to try war criminals, sympathizers of the Palestinian intifada demanded that Israeli leaders be the first defendants.
Still, we are in an entirely new world not just on the court, but also in the marketing world.
Mr. James didn't indicate what he wanted to do with his additional earnings, though he has never been shy about his desire to become as dominant in the business world as he is on the basketball court.
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Every place you visit, from the gardens one several times the size of Central Park to the museums (the Prado and the Thyssen-Bornemisza have some of the world's most impressive court portraiture collections), you can practically hear the whispers of kings and queens long gone.
The technology world is now faster moving than the court system.
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America is taking this position because officials believe that as it is the most powerful country in the world, an international court could be used to mount frivolous and politically motivated actions against its citizens.
They were dispatched to customers around the world, including Pakistan and Yemen, the court heard.
And Canada chaired the 1998 conference to set up a world criminal court at which the United States was one of only seven states opposed.
The conservatism of the Lochner era at the Supreme Court, and in the broader political world, generated a backlash.
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