The case, Cynthia Robinson v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, was originally part of a larger class-action lawsuit for smoking-related injuries.
The bill also expands the list of conditions for which medical marijuana is available.
Last month the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) reported increasing evidence of abductions, detentions, torture and killings.
To the relief of the LGBT community, Obama did not include a sweeping religious exemption in the executive order -- something the community feared could happen in the wake of last month´s Supreme Court ruling in the Hobby Lobby case.
The resolution, which will make Lithuania the nineteenth nation to join the Eurozone on January 1, 2015, was passed by a vote of 545-116.
The cartel has been dubbed the “Atlantic Circle” – after the Hotel Atlantic in Hamburg where the sausage producers first met.
US District Judge Cormac Carney ruled on a petition by death row inmate Ernest Dewayne Jones, who was sentenced to death in 1995.
It is equally settled that universities may use race as part of a holistic admissions program where it cannot otherwise achieve diversity.
Obama´s latest round of sanctions came after close consultations with European leaders, who announced a less-ambitious package.
Citigroup will pay $4bn (£bn) to the Department of Justice and $2.5bn for "consumer relief".
The Brics group is made up of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.
Four Romanians behind a spectacular art heist in the Netherlands were ordered on Monday to pay 18 million euros ($26 million), with the fate of the stolen masterpieces by Picasso, Monet, Gauguin and Lucien Freud still a mystery.
This research led Heaton to seek permission from Egyptian authorities to travel to the remote, unpopulated plot of sand, explaining his cause. At first, even he was skeptical of his own plan.
Air was pumped slowly into 30 tanks or "sponsons" attached to both sides of the 290-metre, 114,500-tonne Concordia to expel the water inside, raising it two metres (6.5 feet) off the artificial platform it has rested on since it was righted in September.
Another investigation prompted by the watchdog´s report led to evidence of what Samsung called suspected child labor, pointing to holes in the tech giant´s ability to enforce its labour guidelines for Chinese suppliers.
Emergency powers to ensure police and security services can continue to access phone and internet records are being rushed through Parliament.
Chinese hackers broke into a US government network in an attempt to gain personal information on thousands of employees, US media report.
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