ILEA000098021: Court rules vote weight disparity "unconstitutional"

High court rejects retrial appeal by ex-nurse over 2000 murder

Lawyers for Daisuke Mori, a former nurse who was sentenced to life for the murder of one patient and attempted murder of four others by giving them muscle relaxants in 2000, speak at a press conference in Sendai, northern Japan, on Feb. 28, 2018, after the Sendai High Court upheld a lower court decision that dismissed an appeal for retrial. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Court rules Oct. 2017 Japan general election constitutional

Photo shows a courtroom at the Akita branch of the Sendai High Court in Akita Prefecture, northern Japan, where the vote weight disparity in the October 2017 House of Representatives election was ruled constitutional on Jan. 30, 2018. (Pool photo)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Court ruling on Oct. 2017 Japan general election

A lawyer holds a signboard protesting against vote disparity on his way to a Sendai High Court branch in Akita, Japan, on Jan. 30, 2018. The court ruled the vote disparity in the House of Representatives election in October 2017 was constitutional. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Woman sues Japan gov't over forced sterilization under eugenics law

Lawyers and other people representing a woman who is seeking damages from the Japanese government over her forced sterilization under the now-defunct eugenic protection law walk toward the Sendai District Court in Miyagi Prefecture in northeastern Japan on Jan. 30, 2018. The woman, in her 60s, filed a lawsuit with the district court later in the day, seeking 11 million yen ($101,000) in damages and an apology from the state over her forced sterilization when she was a teenager under the 1948 law. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Woman sues Japan gov't over forced sterilization under eugenics law

Lawyers and other people representing a woman who is seeking damages from the Japanese government over her forced sterilization under the now-defunct eugenic protection law walk toward the Sendai District Court in Miyagi Prefecture in northeastern Japan on Jan. 30, 2018. The woman, in her 60s, filed a lawsuit with the district court later in the day, seeking 11 million yen ($101,000) in damages and an apology from the state over her forced sterilization when she was a teenager under the 1948 law. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Court orders state to pay compensation in hepatitis B relapse cases

Lawyers representing two chronic hepatitis B sufferers in a lawsuit over reduced state benefit for relapse cases hold up signs in front of the Fukuoka District Court in southwestern Japan on Dec. 11, 2017, showing the court's decision ordering the government to pay compensation. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Court orders state to pay compensation in hepatitis B relapse cases

Lawyers representing two chronic hepatitis B sufferers in a lawsuit over reduced state benefit for relapse cases hold up signs in front of the Fukuoka District Court in southwestern Japan on Dec. 11, 2017, showing the court's decision ordering the government to pay compensation. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Gov't, Tepco ordered to pay damages for Fukushima disaster

Lawyers for plaintiffs suing the state and Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc., the operator of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, over the 2011 nuclear crisis, hold up banners showing victory in the case in front of the Fukushima District Court in Fukushima on Oct. 10, 2017. The court ordered the state and Tepco to pay damages over the 2011 nuclear disaster triggered by the deadly earthquake and tsunami. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Gov't, Tepco ordered to pay damages for Fukushima disaster

Lawyers for plaintiffs suing the state and Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc., the operator of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, over the 2011 nuclear crisis, hold up banners showing victory in the case in front of the Fukushima District Court in Fukushima on Oct. 10, 2017. The court ordered the state and Tepco to pay damages over the 2011 nuclear disaster triggered by the deadly earthquake and tsunami. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

2 women charged with killing Kim Jong Nam plead not guilty

Siti Aisyah, 25, a woman from Vietnam who was charged with the murder of Kim Jong Nam, the estranged half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, enters the Shah Alam High Court in the suburbs of Kuala Lumpur on Oct. 2 2017. Aisyah and Doan Thi Huong, 29, from Vietnam, another woman also charged with the murder, pleaded not guilty in their trial that started later in the day in Shah Alam, the capital of Selangor state. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Court rules vote weight disparity "unconstitutional"

Lawyers display the contents of the decision of the Osaka High Court, which determined on Oct. 20, 2016, that the vote weight disparity in the July upper house election was "in a state of unconstitutionality," while turning down a lawsuit seeking to invalidate the election. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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