A roommate-finding site cannot require users to disclose their sexual orientation, a United States appeals court ruled on Thursday, in the latest skirmish over whether anti-discrimination rules apply to the web. The court said Roommates.com, which obliges users to list their sexual orientation, was different from sites where people volunteer or withhold personal information.
Turkey’s top court decided on Monday to put the Islamist-rooted ruling party on trial for alleged anti-secular activity, in a case that could threaten national stability and Ankara’s bid to join the European Union. The judges of the Constitutional Court agreed to accept the indictment against the Justice and Development Party filed by the country’s top prosecutor.
With pressure mounting on Governor Eliot Spitzer to resign over a prostitution scandal, investigators said he was clearly a repeat customer who spent tens of thousands of dollars — perhaps as much as  000 — with the high-priced prostitution service over an extended period of time.
A United States teen who used vulgar slang in an internet blog to complain about school administrators should not have been punished by the school, her lawyer told a federal appeals court this week. But a lawyer for the school said administrators should be allowed to act if such comments are made on the web.
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/ 18 October 2007
Standing around to chat on a busy Manhattan street can certainly create an inconvenience for other pedestrians. But is it illegal? A man arrested after a conversation with friends in bustling Times Square in New York City has asked the state’s highest court to dismiss the case.