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	High Court - New Zealand
		The High Court Judges and Associate Judges are based in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch, but also travel on circuit to Whangarei, Hamilton, Rotorua, Gisborne, New Plymouth, Napier, Wanganui, Palmerston North, Nelson, Blenheim, Greymouth, Timaru, Dunedin and Invercargill.
		Court staff in those centres are responsible for supporting the management of cases before the Court and, as Registrars and Sheriffs of the Court, are responsible for exercising certain judicial powers, and enforcing the Court's judgments and orders.
		The High Court deals with the most serious types of criminal offences before a Judge and jury, and can impose sentence in summary, judge alone, cases where the District Court considers that a penalty is warranted that exceeds the District Court's jurisdiction.
	www.justice.govt.nz /courts/high_court.html (402 words)

	High Court of Australia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The High Court is mandated by Section 71 of the Constitution, which vests the judicial power of the Commonwealth of Australia in it.
		Unlike other high courts, such as Supreme Court of the United States, the High Court is the court of final appeal for the whole of Australia with the ability to declare the common law for the whole of Australia, not just the state or territory in which the matter arose.
		The issue of appeals from the High Court to the Privy Council was a significant one during the drafting of the Constitution, and it continued to be significant in the years after the court's creation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/High_Court_of_Australia (4090 words)

	High Court - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		High Court usually refers to the superior court of a country or state.
		In some countries it is the highest court (eg Australia) and in others it is lower in the hierarchy of courts (eg.
		Court of High Commission (ecclesiastical court in England)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/High_Court (126 words)

	High Court of Admiralty - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about High Court of Admiralty
		The court is now incorporated within the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court and deals with such matters as salvage and damages arising from collisions between ships.
		The Admiralty Court also sits as a prize court, in which capacity it has jurisdiction in matters of capture in port or on land if the capture has been effected by a naval force or a mixed naval and military force.
		The Scottish Court of Admiralty lost its prize jurisdiction to the English Court of Admiralty in 1825, and in 1830 its civil and criminal jurisdiction was transferred respectively to the Court of Session and the High Court of Justiciary.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /High+Court+of+Admiralty (345 words)

	High Court of Justiciary
		The High Court of Justiciary is Scotland's supreme criminal court.
		Appeals are heard from the High Court, the Sheriff Courts and the District Courts.
		Cases in the High Court are prosecuted by advocates or solicitor-advocates ("advocate deputes") who are appointed by the Lord Advocate, in whose name all prosecutions are brought in the public interest.
	www.scotcourts.gov.uk /justiciary/index.asp (758 words)

	High Court of Australia - About the High Court - History of the High Court
		Although the High Court of Australia was established in 1901 by Section 71 of the Constitution, the appointment of the first Bench had to await the passage of the Judiciary Act in 1903.
		The Great Depression had caused the workload of the High Court to decrease, and consequently there was a view in some areas of government that, in the interests of economy, the two vacancies on the High Court Bench should not be filled.
		Appeals to the Privy Council from decisions of the High Court were effectively ended by the combined effects of the Privy Council (Limitation of Appeals) Act 1968 and the Privy Council (Appeals from the High Court) Act 1975.
	www.hcourt.gov.au /about_02.html (1618 words)

	High Court
		Miami's drug treatment court was born in the late 1980s, when a Dade County, FL, prosecutor named Janet Reno sold local authorities on the idea of a special court designed to break the predictable behavior of drug users who committed crimes—such as drug dealing and theft—to support their habit.
		The concept of Reno's drug treatment court, and others like it, is a simple one: instead of prosecuting drug offenders, the court enters them into a treatment program and monitors their progress by making them appear regularly before a judge.
		The colloquy is Allen's formal contract with the court stating that he waives his right to trial, and instead, accepts the conditions of the court and any sanctions the judge may impose as a result of missteps during treatment.
	citypaper.net /articles/040298/cover.shtml (5885 words)

	ABC News: Source: Clement Not Bush's Choice for High Court
		A U.S. Court of Appeals judge for the 5th Circuit, Clement was nominated to her current position by Bush and was confirmed by the Senate in November 2001.
		O'Connor, 75, was the first female justice to serve on the High Court, and many speculated that Bush would choose a woman to replace her.
		Clement was considered a leading candidate to replace her, along with her colleague on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit in New Orleans, Edith Hollan Jones.
	abcnews.go.com /Politics/SupremeCourt/story?id=953790 (319 words)

	BBC - Crime Fighters - High Court (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The High Court is a civil court and has the authority to hear any civil case in England and Wales.
		Along with the Court of Appeal, it is based at the gothic buildings of the Royal Courts of Justice on the Strand, London (pictured), but also sits at 26 towns around the country.
		This is a procedure whereby a court refers a statement of the facts and a question of law to a superior court for advice.
	www.bbc.co.uk /crime/fighters/highcourt.shtml (829 words)

	Israeli High Court Rulings on the Wall
		On the 10th of February, the Israeli Supreme Court issued a temporary injunction against the State of Israel and the Commander of the IOF forces in Judea and Samaria against the building of the Apartheid Wall on the land of the village of Iskaka in...
		Israel's High Court ordered a rerouting of a section of the barrier in the central West Bank in June to minimize hardship to Palestinians, thousands of whom have already been cut off from schools, hospitals, relatives and farmland by the network of electronic fences and...
		The High Court of Justice on Tuesday ordered the state to explain why it is building the West Bank separation fence along a route that residents of a village east of Jerusalem say will trap part of the village between the capital and the fence...
	www.vtjp.org /background/wallreport10.htm (4450 words)

	Kerala High Court, High Court of Kerala
		High Court of Kerala is the highest Court in the State of Kerala and in the Union Territory of Lakshadweep.
		The High Court of Kerala is headquartered at Kochi.
		The High Court of Kerala is empowered with Original, Appellate and Revisional jurisdiction both in civil as well as in criminal matters and the power to answer references referred to it under some statutes.
	www.keraladaily.com /kerala/kerala-high-court.php (224 words)

	High Court Takes Combatant Case - CBS News
		The high court said it will consider the appeal from Yaser Esam Hamdi, whom the government has labeled an enemy combatant ineligible for ordinary legal protections and a danger to the United States.
		The high court's decision to review the case is another in a recent series of legal setbacks for the Bush administration in terrorism cases.
		The administration had strongly urged the high court to stay out of the Hamdi case, or to shelve it for now pending an appeal in the similar case of another U.S.-born terrorism suspect.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2004/02/20/terror/main601422.shtml (1000 words)

	Court Services & Facilities
		The Court of Appeal hears appeals on criminal and civil matters from the Court of First Instance, the District Court, the Lands Tribunal and various Tribunals and Statutory Bodies by virtue of the Ordinance.
		When an accused in a criminal case is not satisfied with a decision made by the Court of First Instance or the District Court, he or she may lodge an application for leave to appeal with the Court of Appeal within 28 days from the day of conviction/sentence.
		If the party is not satisfied with the decision of the Court of Appeal, he or she may lodge an application for leave to appeal to the Court of Final Appeal.
	www.judiciary.gov.hk /en/crt_services/pphlt/html/hc.htm (3737 words)

	High Court of Australia in TutorGig Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The 'High Court of Australia' is the court of last resort for the jurisdiction of Australia.
		The functions of the High Court are to interpret and apply the law of Australia; to decide cases of special federal significance including challenges to the constitutional validity of laws and to hear appeals, by special leave, from Federal, State and Territory courts.
		In Brisbane and Perth registry functions are performed on behalf of the High Court by officers of the Federal Court of Australia, and in Adelaide, Hobart and Darwin they are performed by officers of the Supreme Court of the respective State or Territory.
	www.tutorgig.com /ed/High_Court_of_Australia (745 words)

	High Court Hears Amish School Case (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The U.S. Supreme Court was asked yesterday to decide whether the responsibility of a state to ensure the adequate education of children should override the religious conviction of the Amish that eight years' schooling is enough.
		The three fathers were convicted in the county court and again in the circuit court, and fine $5 each.
		At that point they appealed to the state supreme courts, where for the first time in American legal history they won a decision that the Amish have a constitutional right to keep their children out of high school.
	www.holycrosslivonia.org /amish/mackaye.htm (672 words)

	The American Lawyer - High Court Ethereality
		Since televisions and recording devices are still barred from the Court, curious citizens must still rely largely on a cadre of print reporters to cover oral argument and summarize new decisions.
		There is a growing recognition that the Supreme Court is composed of humans, and that subjective human interpretation can and should have a role in the life of the high court.
		But the Court still doesn't credential bloggers (the one credentialed blogger has been covering the Court for almost 40 years and is formally credentialed as a radio correspondent), and it still won't entertain the notion that audiocasts should become a part of everyday life at the Court.
	www.law.com /jsp/tal/PubArticleTAL.jsp?id=1106573731351 (1193 words)

	Wired News: High Court Nixes MS Appeal
		The Supreme Court's decision does not indicate how the justices view the merits of the Microsoft case, and the court may eventually referee part of the long legal battle that started in 1997.
		Microsoft had asked the high court to hear its complaint that the original federal judge who handled the 78-day Microsoft antitrust trial should be disqualified along with all his conclusions about Microsoft's conduct.
		The Supreme Court had not been expected to take the case, in large part because it is still in flux in lower courts.
	www.wired.com /news/antitrust/0,1551,47418,00.html (905 words)

	Online NewsHour: Supreme Court Watch \| PBS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The arguments came as the high court considered whether such a military court could deal with the case of Salim Ahmed Hamdan, a Yemeni who once worked as a driver for Osama bin Laden and has now been held by the U.S. for four years.
		The Supreme Court on Monday decided not to review a $50 million punitive damage award that lower courts in California enforced upon cigarette manufacturer Philip Morris USA.
		The Supreme Court unanimously rejected university objections to the Pentagon's "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays, ruling that the government can withhold federal money if the colleges ban military recruiters on campus.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/law/supreme_court (320 words)

	Rehnquist shaped high court conservatism - The Changing Court - MSNBC.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		At age 47, in October 1971, Rehnquist was nominated to the court by President Nixon, and was sworn in on Jan. 7, 1972.
		The court announced in October of 2004 that Rehnquist was being treated for thyroid cancer, and as recently as July he insisted he would continue with his duties unless his health prevented it.
		Writing for the court in the Lopez case, Rehnquist said Congress could not use the Constitution's Commerce Clause — the basis of its power to regulate interstate commerce — to justify a law which made it a federal offense to possess a firearm within 1,000 feet of a school.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/5304454 (1019 words)

	The High Court's Eating Disorder By Dahlia Lithwick
		The court made few efforts to undo even the radical work of the Warren Court, confining itself to the margins of the legal, and thus the national, landscape.
		This is a court happy to overturn acts of Congress, and "conservative" courts aren't supposed to be obtrusive and public.
		Indeed the "strict constructionist" wing of the high court (which may well expand by several hundred pounds over the next few months if rumors of summer retirements are true) was not all that restrained when it came to punching an arm through the venerable wall between church and state (in Good News Club v.
	www.slate.com /?id=111437 (1614 words)

	WorldNetDaily: High court limits Commandments
		In the Kentucky case, the court declined to ban all displays on government property, saying some, like their own courtroom frieze, are allowed if they have a neutral purpose, such as honoring the nation's legal history.
		Attorney Mathew D. Staver, who argued the case before the high court in March, said the decision is historic and will have a significant impact on future court decisions regarding the interaction between church and state.
		In contrast to the Kentucky decision, the court determined the granite monument at the Texas state Capitol in Austin to be a legitimate tribute to the nation's legal legacy.
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=45014 (763 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Africa \| Strike halts Ugandan High Court
		Lawyers in Uganda are holding a one-day strike in protest at the recent deployment of troops at the High Court.
		In the coming days judges in the constitutional court will give a ruling on whether Dr Besigye's trial at both the High Court and the military court martial is legal.
		Earlier this month, as 14 treason suspects were granted bail at the High Court, a group of heavily armed military men, since tagged the "Black Mambas Urban Hit Squad", surrounded the building.
	news.bbc.co.uk /go/rss/-/1/hi/world/africa/4477110.stm (635 words)

	Jonathan H. Adler on Supreme Court and Marijuana on National Review Online
		Represented by noted libertarian law professor (and sometime NRO contributor) Randy Barnett, Raich argued that, at least as applied to her situation, the federal Controlled Substances Act (CSA) is unconstitutional.
		Filburn, in which the Supreme Court upheld Congress’s power to regulate the planting of wheat on an individual farm, reached this far.
		It was on this ground that the Supreme Court struck down federal statutes prohibiting gun possession in or near schools and penalizing gender-motivated violence.
	www.nationalreview.com /adler/adler200412010837.asp (1462 words)

	High Court in Calif. Nullifies Gay Marriages (washingtonpost.com)
		The court's rulings focused only on the narrow question of whether San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom had the right to legalize same-sex marriage -- not the larger issue of whether the ban on such unions is constitutional.
		Some city officials had thought the court might keep the same-sex marriages valid at least until it decides whether the ban on such unions is constitutional.
		The California Supreme Court halted the marriages in March at the request of the state's attorney general, Bill Lockyer (D), and conservative groups that oppose same-sex unions.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A61169-2004Aug12.html (1037 words)

	Israelâs High Court Rejects World Court Ruling on Barrier - The NewStandard
		The panel of nine High Court judges â“ led by Supreme Court President Aharon Barak â“ unanimously upheld, in part, a petition brought by Palestinian residents of several West Bank villages impacted by a particular section of the barrier near the city of Qalqilya.
		The court ruling addressed a 13-kilometer stretch of the barrier, which is in the form of a concrete wall eight meters high and adorned with sniper towers.
		In its July 2004 ruling, the International Court of Justice (World Court) in The Hague, Netherlands held that construction of the barrier is "contrary to international law," in part because it "destroyed and confiscated" property, it greatly restricts Palestinian movement, and it "severely impedes the exercise by the Palestinian people of [the] right to self-determination".
	newstandardnews.net /content/index.cfm/items/2370 (1166 words)

	CNN.com - High court: Juvenile death penalty unconstitutional - Mar 1, 2005
		The high court in 1989 ruled the execution of 16- and 17-year old killers was allowable, but the issue in the current case was whether "evolving national standards" had prompted a new look at the divisive issue.
		In the high court's last visit to the issue -- 1989 -- the justices also cast a 5-4 vote, this time upholding the death sentence of a Kentucky youth who was 16 when he committed murder.
		Since that time, opinion -- and the court -- has begun to shift away from the death penalty, particularly when those convicted of a capital crime can be seen as less than mature in their reasoning.
	www.cnn.com /2005/LAW/03/01/scotus.death.penalty (900 words)

	USATODAY.com - The next president could tip high court (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The prospect of a change on the court is greater — eight of the justices are now at least 65 — and the replacement of even one justice could affect the law on issues such as abortion rights, affirmative action and religion's role in government.
		The court, for example, has prevented state workers who face discrimination because of age or disability from suing their employers for money damages under federal laws.
		Rehnquist and Stevens are at opposite poles of the court.
	www.usatoday.com /news/politicselections/nation/president/2004-09-29-election-court-cover_x.htm (3174 words)

	Urinalysis By Dahlia Lithwick
		The court held—among other things—that elected judges may behave more like student council candidates ("I promise more theme dances and strict construction for everyone!") and parochial schools may be treated like public ones.
		The court decided that school districts may conduct such tests, using what was once a very limited "special needs" exception to the requirement that government actors must have probable cause, even for "administrative" (as opposed to law enforcement) searches.
		Not surprisingly, the students (whom the court felt were used to walking around naked in public anyhow) lost.
	www.slate.com /?id=2067710 (1177 words)

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