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News FBI documents describe military impersonation of agents, allege Presidential OK for abusive interrogations
FBI documents describe military impersonation of agents, allege Presidential OK for abusive interrogations
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
December 21, 2004 09:41:00 am

FBI records released late Monday by the ACLU pursuant to a Freedom of Information Act request include complaints in 2004 about military impersonation of FBI agents while using "torture technqiques" against prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, and allege that there...

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News Ukrainian presidential debate transcript [UTR]
Ukrainian presidential debate transcript [UTR]
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
December 21, 2004 09:32:00 am

Transcript of Ukrainian presidential debate between Viktor Yushchenko and Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, televised on UTR , December 20, 2004. Read the transcript here in English and Ukrainian, provided by the American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine. Reported...

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News Ruling on terrorist financing law [9th Circuit]
Ruling on terrorist financing law [9th Circuit]
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
December 20, 2004 09:55:00 pm

US v. Afshari et al., United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, December 20, 2004 [overturning a lower federal court ruling finding a 1996 terrorist financing law unconstitutional and reinstating indictments against seven people accused of providing "material...

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News UPDATE ~ US says Yukos sale erodes confidence in Russian legal system
UPDATE ~ US says Yukos sale erodes confidence in Russian legal system
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
December 20, 2004 03:51:00 pm

Updating a story reported earlier today in JURIST's Paper Chase, a US State Department spokesman said Monday that the weekend auction sale of Russian oil giant Yukos' main production arm to satisfy back taxes in the face of a...

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News Second Gitmo detainee to be released following status review hearing
Second Gitmo detainee to be released following status review hearing
Chris Buell
December 20, 2004 02:48:00 pm

The Department of Defense announced Monday that according to a DOD panel a detainee held at Guantanamo Bay was wrongly classified as an enemy combatant and would be released soon. Navy Secretary Gordon England refused to identify the man...

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News Hungary becomes second country to ratify new EU constitution
Hungary becomes second country to ratify new EU constitution
Chris Buell
December 20, 2004 02:25:00 pm

Hungary became the second nation to ratify the European Constitution with a parliamentary vote Monday, only seven months after joining the EU. After Hungary's approval, 23 EU member states have yet to ratify the constitution, with a negative vote...

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News Saddam’s defense lawyers preparing challenge in US courts, leaked papers show
Saddam’s defense lawyers preparing challenge in US courts, leaked papers show
Chris Buell
December 20, 2004 02:11:00 pm

Defense lawyers for Saddam Hussein are preparing legal challenges to his upcoming war crimes trial to be filed in US courts, according to leaked memos. The Sunday Times reported that a brief titled "The Iraqi Special Tribunal as Victors’...

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News BREAKING NEWS ~ WA Supreme Court to hear appeal over disputed ballots, Democrats say
BREAKING NEWS ~ WA Supreme Court to hear appeal over disputed ballots, Democrats say
Chris Buell
December 20, 2004 01:17:00 pm

KGW-TV in Portland is reporting that WA State Democrats have said the WA Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal over 700 disputed King County in a hand recount for the gubernatorial race. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports that...

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News US settles lawsuit with Hungarian Holocaust survivors over lost property
US settles lawsuit with Hungarian Holocaust survivors over lost property
Chris Buell
December 20, 2004 01:06:00 pm

The US government has agreed to settle a class action brought by Hungarian Holocaust survivors over an estimated $200 million in jewelry, gold and other property that was seized by the US at the end of World War II...

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News Ukraine opposition leader accuses rival of trying to "steal election" in live TV debate
Ukraine opposition leader accuses rival of trying to "steal election" in live TV debate
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
December 20, 2004 12:30:00 pm

Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko opened a 2-hour live TV debate Monday with rival and prime minister Viktor Yanukovych by accusing him of trying to steal the November 21 Ukrainian presidential election, which led to allegations of massive fraud...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Gorbachev becomes USSR leader

On March 11, 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev became the leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, following the death of Konstantin Chernenko. He soon announced that he would hold arms-reduction negotiations in Geneva with the United States. Gorbachev also used his tenure to liberalize the economy and social structure of the USSR, eventually leading to the abatement of the Soviet Union. In 1990, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace.

Read documents and interviews from the 1990 USA-USSR Summit.

Confederate Constitution adopted

On March 11, 1861, seven former US states adopted the Constitution of the Confederate States of America, which closely followed the language, if not necessarily the purport, of the original US Constitution. Section 9 (4) of the Confederate Constitution read "No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law denying or impairing the right of property in negro slaves shall be passed," enshrining the right to own slaves as fundamental law.

ICC holds first meeting

The war crimes court known as the International Criminal Court (ICC) swore in its first batch of judges on March 11, 2003. The meeting took place eight months after the ratification of the court's Rome Statute. Then-UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said of the occasion: It has taken mankind many years to reach this moment. By the solemn undertaking they have given here in open court, these 11 men and seven women, representing all regions of the world and many different cultures and legal traditions, have made themselves the embodiment of our collective conscience. Learn more about the work of the ICC.  

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