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News House Democrats call for election investigation
House Democrats call for election investigation
Gretchen E. Moore
November 8, 2004 08:55:00 am

Three House Democrats have called for an official investigation into voting machine irregularities during the 2004 election. Congressmen Robert Wexler of Florida, Jerrold Nadler of New York, and John Conyers of Michigan sent a letter to the Government Accountability...

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News Legal agenda and live webcasts ~ Monday, Nov. 8
Legal agenda and live webcasts ~ Monday, Nov. 8
Chris Buell
November 8, 2004 07:00:00 am

Here's a run-down of law-related events, expected developments and live webcasts on JURIST's docket for Monday, Nov. 8.The US Supreme Court hears arguments in two cases Monday, with the first to begin at 10 AM ET. In Devenpeck v....

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News Iran, Britain, France and Germany reach preliminary nuclear agreement
Iran, Britain, France and Germany reach preliminary nuclear agreement
Alexandria Samuel
November 7, 2004 08:16:00 pm

Iran, Britain, France and Germany reached a preliminary agreement in Paris Sunday on Iran's use of nuclear technology. Details of the agreement were not revealed, but an Iranian negotiator says "fundamental principals had been agreed ." While Iran denies...

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News Macedonia clears way for minority rights after repeal referendum fails
Macedonia clears way for minority rights after repeal referendum fails
Alexandria Samuel
November 7, 2004 07:27:00 pm

A referendum in Macedonia designed to block a law that gave its Albanian minority greater rights has failed due to a low turnout. The law, already passed by the Macedonian parliament, redraws local boundaries in the former Yugoslav Republic,...

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News Afghan hostage-takers focus on release of 26 prisoners
Afghan hostage-takers focus on release of 26 prisoners
Kate Heneroty
November 7, 2004 11:21:00 am

The Taliban-related group holding 3 UN workers hostage in Afghanistan has agreed to forego other demands relating to their release in exchange for the release of 26 prisoners, some believed to be held at Guantanamo Bay. A list was...

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News Security Council condemns Ivory Coast air raids that killed French peacekeepers
Security Council condemns Ivory Coast air raids that killed French peacekeepers
Kate Heneroty
November 7, 2004 10:50:00 am

The UN Security Council late Saturday issued a statement condemning Ivory Coast air force raids again rebel cities in which eight French peacekeepers attached to the UNOCI (United Nations Operation in the Ivory Coast) were killed, leading to French...

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News Ghana arrests suspects in election sabotage plan
Ghana arrests suspects in election sabotage plan
Kate Heneroty
November 7, 2004 10:36:00 am

Authorities in Ghana have arrested 7 people believed to be plotting the overthrow of President John Kufuor (official biography). The suspects are former and current members of the military and the plan allegedly included sabotaging the upcoming presidential election....

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News UPDATE ~ Iraq declares comprehensive state of emergency
UPDATE ~ Iraq declares comprehensive state of emergency
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
November 7, 2004 10:15:00 am

Following up on a story first reported Saturday afternoon on JURIST, Iraq's interim government has declared a 60-day state of emergency covering the whole country except for the Kurdish north. Early reports coming out of Kuwait had suggested that...

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News Law in the Sunday papers ~ Supreme Court, patient privacy, Guantanamo justice
Law in the Sunday papers ~ Supreme Court, patient privacy, Guantanamo justice
Timothy Lyon
November 7, 2004 09:22:00 am

Sunday's New York Times highlights the way Chief Justice Rehnquist's illness has affected the state of the US Supreme Court. The Times also covers the first person to be sentenced for violating a new federal law designed to protect...

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News Emergency laws to take effect in central Iraq
Emergency laws to take effect in central Iraq
Christina Gheen
November 6, 2004 03:42:00 pm

Iraqi government sources Saturday unveiled a plan to proclaim emergency laws in troubled central areas of Iraq, including Falluja and Ramadi. A spokesperson for the Iraqi Interior Ministry stated that the emergency laws could be imposed without declaration and...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Last Quaker executed for religious beliefs in American colonies

On March 24, 1661, William Ledda, executed in Boston, became the last Quaker in the American colonies to be put to death for his religious beliefs. Learn more about the persecution of the Quakers in colonial Massachusetts.

Archbishop Óscar Romero assassinated

On March 24, 1980, Archbishop Óscar Romero was assassinated while celebrating Mass in San Salvador, El Salvador by a right-wing death squad. Romero had become unpopular with conservative elements in the country when he began speaking out against government repression of the nation's poor and of his fellow priests. Read a biography of Archbishop Óscar Romero from the Kellogg Institute at Notre Dame University. In 2003, the Center for Justice and Accountability (CJA), an American human-rights organization, filed a lawsuit in the United States against former Salvadorean Air Force Captain Álvaro Rafael Saravia for his alleged role in the assassination of Archbishop Romero. The suit was filed in a US federal district court under the Alien Tort Claim Act (28 U.S.C. § 1350). In Doe v. Rafael Saravia, the defendant was found guilty of crimes against humanity and extrajudicial killing, resulting in a $10 million judgment against Saravia. Read a description of the case. Romero was later canonized as a saint by the Catholic Church in 2018.

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