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Commentary High Time for Justice: The US and the Khmer Rouge Tribunal
High Time for Justice: The US and the Khmer Rouge Tribunal
Jeremiah Lee
January 31, 2006 08:01:00 am

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Craig Etcheson, author of After the Killing Fields: Lessons from the Cambodian Genocide (2005) and a Visiting Scholar at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies, says the time has come for the United States...

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Commentary The judicial capacity to try Saddam
The judicial capacity to try Saddam
JURIST Commentator
January 30, 2006 10:12:00 pm

Michael J. Kelly : "Each new session of the Iraqi High Criminal Court, convened last year to try Saddam Hussein and his henchmen for the massacre of over a hundred Shi'a at Dujail in 1982, brings...

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Commentary The Real Danger of Presidential Spying
The Real Danger of Presidential Spying
Jeremiah Lee
January 30, 2006 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Brian J. Foley of Florida Coastal School of Law says that the greatest threat posed by President Bush's domestic surveillance program is not to the privacy of ordinary Americans but rather to the independence of potential political...

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Commentary Alito's Discrimination Problem
Alito's Discrimination Problem
Jeremiah Lee
January 28, 2006 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist David Kairys of Temple University School of Law says that the Senate should fully examine Judge Samuel Alito's views on race and gender discrimination - strangely shaped in the turmoil of the 1960s - before voting on...

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Commentary Legal news views wanted
Legal news views wanted
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
January 28, 2006 01:54:00 am

Welcome to JURIST's Hotline, where you can publish your insights on legal news as it happens.We've designed this service to do two things: to give lawyers, law professors, policy experts, and people caught up in legal events a platform where...

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Commentary Much Pain, Much Gain: Skeptical Ruminations on the Vioxx Litigation
Much Pain, Much Gain: Skeptical Ruminations on the Vioxx Litigation
Jeremiah Lee
January 23, 2006 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Benjamin Zipursky of Fordham University School of Law says that the ongoing Vioxx litigation is exposing serious shortcomings in America's products liability system... In August, a jury in Texas arrived at a huge verdict of $253 million...

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Commentary Legal Technicalities: Weighing the Alito Nomination
Legal Technicalities: Weighing the Alito Nomination
Jeremiah Lee
January 23, 2006 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist David Kairys of Temple University School of Law says that senators weighing the nomination of Judge Samuel Alito to the US Supreme Court should be wary of endorsing his commitment to legal technicalities over core constitutional values......

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Commentary Abramoff and Congressional Reform
Abramoff and Congressional Reform
Jeremiah Lee
January 20, 2006 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Peter Henning of Wayne State University Law School says that while lawmakers in Washington are floating new ethics regulations in the wake of the Abramoff lobbying scandal, they might do better to apply existing laws and work...

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Commentary Hiding Behind 'Principles': The US and the Geneva Conventions
Hiding Behind 'Principles': The US and the Geneva Conventions
Jeremiah Lee
January 18, 2006 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Geoffrey S. Corn, Lt. Col. US Army (Ret.) and former Special Assistant to the Judge Advocate General for Law of War Matters, now a professor at South Texas College of Law, says that US claims of adherence...

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Commentary Hollow Ritual: The Alito Confirmation Hearings
Hollow Ritual: The Alito Confirmation Hearings
Jeremiah Lee
January 17, 2006 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Peter Shane of Moritz College of Law, Ohio State University, says that the confirmation hearings for US Supreme Court nominee Judge Samuel Alito were a distressingly hollow ritual that reflected poorly on the nominee, the Senators questioning...

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White supremacists overthrow government in Wilmington, North Carolina

A group of white supremacists overthrew the government of Wilmington, North Carolina on November 10, 1898, killing at least dozens of Black people in the process. The city's Republican government resigned after the 500-2,000 strong white mob burned the offices of a Black-owned newspaper and terrorized black neighborhoods. The new state Democratic government passed laws in 1899 disenfranchising Black voters across North Carolina. Learn more about the 1898 Wilmington Coup.

Supreme Court limited free speech in wartime

On November 10, 1919, the US Supreme Court ruled in Abrams v. United States that the federal government could criminalize speech if it was of a type tending to bring about harmful results, in this case, resistance to the United States war effort. In a powerful dissenting opinion, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes countered that even during wartime, free speech could only be curtailed when there was clear and "present danger of immediate evil or an intent to bring it about."

Leonid Brezhnev dies

On November 10, 1982, Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev died of a heart attack. He had served as leader of the USSR from October 1964 until his death. Following his death, the Soviet Union cycled through three more leaders during the 1980s until Mikhail Gorbachev allowed the country to dissolve in 1991. Read an obituary of Leonid Brezhnev from the New York Times.

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