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News Supreme Court to decide when claims belong in federal court
Supreme Court to decide when claims belong in federal court
Matt Lubniewski
February 28, 2005 01:09:00 pm

The Supreme Court Monday granted certiorari to a case raising the question of when plaintiffs can sue in federal court, as opposed to state court. The question has lately sparked an important political debate, as plaintiffs often prefer to...

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News WorldCom’s Ebbers testifies he did not understand accounting, finance
WorldCom’s Ebbers testifies he did not understand accounting, finance
Matt Lubniewski
February 28, 2005 12:54:00 pm

Former WorldCom chief Bernard Ebbers testified Monday at his corporate fraud trial, now in its sixth week in Manhattan federal court. Ebbers said on the stand that he was unschooled in accounting...

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News Appeals judges uphold convictions for Bosnian prison camp guards
Appeals judges uphold convictions for Bosnian prison camp guards
Matt Lubniewski
February 28, 2005 12:30:00 pm

Judges of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia Monday upheld the convictions of four Bosnian Serbs who found guilty in 2001 of crimes against detainees at a wartime prison camp in Bosnia. Miroslav Kvocka, Mladjo...

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News Lebanon’s pro-Syria PM resigns before no-confidence vote
Lebanon’s pro-Syria PM resigns before no-confidence vote
Matt Lubniewski
February 28, 2005 12:27:00 pm

Lebanon's Prime Minister Omar Karami announced the resignation of his administration on Monday, just before a no-confidence vote was scheduled to take place. Karami had been under popular pressure to resign after his government was implicated in the February...

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News Corporations and securities brief ~ Spitzer expands AIG probe
Corporations and securities brief ~ Spitzer expands AIG probe
Amit Patel
February 28, 2005 12:15:00 pm

Leading Monday's corporations and securities law news, the Financial Times is reporting that New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has expanded his inquiry into the corporate governance and accounting practices at American International Group (AIG)...

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News Iraqi tribunal takes first steps toward trial of Saddam aides
Iraqi tribunal takes first steps toward trial of Saddam aides
Liza Hall
February 28, 2005 11:53:00 am

The Iraqi Special Tribunal has finished preliminary investigations into some of the crimes allegedly committed by Saddam Hussein’s top aides and announced Monday that the first group of five will be sent to trial. The five include...

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News Trial of former Yukos CEO could end in April
Trial of former Yukos CEO could end in April
Russell Adkins
February 28, 2005 11:48:00 am

A lawyer for Mikhail Khodorkovsky , former CEO of Russian oil giant Yukos , has said that his client's trial on tax fraud and other charges could end in April. Yuri Shmidt said...

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News Bosnian Muslim army chief to face war crimes tribunal
Bosnian Muslim army chief to face war crimes tribunal
Liza Hall
February 28, 2005 11:14:00 am

General Rasim Delic , who headed the Bosnian Muslim army during most of the Bosnian civil war that spanned the 1990s, left Sarajevo for the Hague Monday to surrender to the UN tribunal and face trial for war...

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News Saddam to face trial in ‘Lecter-style’ cage
Saddam to face trial in ‘Lecter-style’ cage
Russell Adkins
February 28, 2005 10:45:00 am

Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein will face trial in a reinforced metal cage, much like the one used for the character Hannibal Lecter in the 1991 film, the Silence of the Lambs, London's Sun reports in its Monday edition....

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News Bankruptcy limitation bill going before Senate
Bankruptcy limitation bill going before Senate
D. Wes Rist
February 28, 2005 09:43:00 am

A controversial bankruptcy bill first introduced in 1997 goes up for consideration again Monday in the US Senate . The bill aims to limit the ability of consumers to declare bankruptcy and have their debts nullified. Republican Senator...

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Soviet spy Klaus Fuchs sentenced to 14 years in UK prison

On March 1, 1950, German-British atomic scientist Klaus Fuchs was sentenced to 14 years in prison by a UK court for passing British and American nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union. Read a biography of Fuchs from PBS.

Civil Rights Act of 1875 became law

On March 1, 1875, the Civil Rights Act of 1875 became law. It declared that all persons within the jurisdiction of the United States shall be entitled to the full and equal enjoyment of the accommodations, advantages, facilities, and privileges of inns, public conveyances on land or water, theaters, and other places of public amusement, subject only to the conditions and limitations established by law. In 1883, in the Civil Rights Cases, the US Supreme Court ruled the 1875 Act unconstitutional and unauthorized by either the 13th or 14th Amendments. Congress passed no more civil rights legislation until 1957.

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