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News Gonzales stresses DOJ anti-terror fight in appropriations pitch
Gonzales stresses DOJ anti-terror fight in appropriations pitch
Jeannie Shawl
March 2, 2005 12:23:00 pm

US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales presented the FY 2006 Justice Department budget Tuesday to the US House Committee on Appropriations . Gonzales testified that the FBI's counterterrorism workload has...

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News Supreme Court says secrecy requirement stops former spies suing CIA for support
Supreme Court says secrecy requirement stops former spies suing CIA for support
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
March 2, 2005 10:52:00 am

Unanimously reversing a Ninth Circuit ruling , the US Supreme Court ruled Wednesday in Tenet v. Doe that two former spies for the CIA could not sue the agency for support after it...

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News Hong Kong leader’s resignation presents legal problem
Hong Kong leader’s resignation presents legal problem
D. Wes Rist
March 2, 2005 10:45:00 am

Chief Executive of Hong Kong Tung Chee Hwa is reportedly going to step down from office as the leader of the Chinese special administrative region of Hong Kong for health reasons. Tung took the leadership...

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FERC releases tapes, transcripts of Enron shady dealings
D. Wes Rist
March 2, 2005 10:36:00 am

Thousands of hours of audio tapes and transcripts of conversations of Enron traders talking about, or engaging in, violations of federal regulations were released Tuesday by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission . FERC has indicated that it will...

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News Palestinians promise legal, judicial reforms at London summit
Palestinians promise legal, judicial reforms at London summit
D. Wes Rist
March 2, 2005 10:16:00 am

Attending an international one-day summit in London Tuesday, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas committed the Palestinian Authority to a range of legal and judicial reforms deemed necessary for the eventual creation of an independent Palestinian state. The reforms, set out...

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News Taiwan asks for international help in blocking Chinese anti-secession law
Taiwan asks for international help in blocking Chinese anti-secession law
D. Wes Rist
March 2, 2005 09:51:00 am

Taiwanese Premier Frank Hsieh has warned that China's planned approval of an anti-secession law will strain relations between the two countries, destroying the goodwill recently developed by the opening of commercial flights between the two...

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News IAEA rebuked on handling of Iran
IAEA rebuked on handling of Iran
D. Wes Rist
March 2, 2005 09:31:00 am

US Ambassador to the UN in Geneva Jackie Sanders told the annual meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency Board of Governors Wednesday that the IAEA could no longer ignore its 'statutory obligations' and must...

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News Legal change prompts Chinese divorce surge
Legal change prompts Chinese divorce surge
D. Wes Rist
March 2, 2005 09:12:00 am

The Chinese government paper China Daily Wednesday reported that the number of Chinese couples seeking a divorce in 2004 rose to 1.6 million, a dramatic increase over previous years attributed to a 2003 law reform that dropped...

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News UK court upholds right to wear Muslim dress in schools
UK court upholds right to wear Muslim dress in schools
Jeannie Shawl
March 2, 2005 07:57:00 am

The UK Court of Appeal ruled Wednesday that a British high school decision to exclude from school a student wearing a jilbab, a traditional Muslim gown, was unlawful because the school denied 16-year-old Shabina Begum the right...

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News Iraqis name tribunal judge, lawyer shot dead in Baghdad
Iraqis name tribunal judge, lawyer shot dead in Baghdad
Jeannie Shawl
March 2, 2005 07:36:00 am

Judge Barwez Mohammed Mahmoud al-Merwani and his son, lawyer Aryan Barwez al-Merwani, both of whom were working with the Iraqi Special Tribunal were assassinated late Tuesday as they were exiting their Baghdad home. In...

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Supreme court overturns racially restrictive covenants

On May 3, 1948, the Supreme Court ruled that racially restrictive covenants violate the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, even covenants between private individuals. In Shelley v. Kraemer, the Court overturned a covenant among members of a neighborhood in St. Louis, Missouri that restricted home sales to only white families.

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