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News England to plead guilty in Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse case
England to plead guilty in Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse case
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
April 30, 2005 12:14:00 pm

The lawyer for Pfc. Lynndie England said Friday that the 22-year old reservist made infamous by photographs that showed her posing with with humiliated Iraqi detainees in Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison has agreed to plead guilty to...

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News Moussaoui judge refuses DOJ report release
Moussaoui judge refuses DOJ report release
Christina Gheen
April 30, 2005 11:42:00 am

US District Judge Leonie M. Brinkema Friday denied a US Department of Justice request to release a report on FBI missteps leading up to 9/11. The report chronicles three episodes considered to be missed opportunities to detect the 9/11...

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News 2004 Wiretap Report [Administrative Office US Courts]
2004 Wiretap Report [Administrative Office US Courts]
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
April 30, 2005 11:30:00 am

2004 Wiretap Report , Administrative Office of the United States Courts, April 28, 2005 [reporting that wiretaps increased by 19 percent in 2004, with federal and state judges approving 1,710 applications while...

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News First Vioxx wrongful-death suit to go to trial
First Vioxx wrongful-death suit to go to trial
Christina Gheen
April 30, 2005 10:04:00 am

An Alabama Circuit Court refused Friday to dismiss the first wrongful-death suit brought against Merck for their painkiller Vioxx. Merck pulled Vioxx from the market when a study found it to double the chances of heart attacks and strokes...

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News Death penalty reinstatement bill [MA Gov. Mitt Romney]
Death penalty reinstatement bill [MA Gov. Mitt Romney]
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
April 29, 2005 09:13:00 pm

An Act Reinstating Capital Punishment in the Commonwealth, filed with the Massachusetts Senate and House of Representatives, April 29, 2005 [to reinstate the death penalty in Massachusetts for deadly acts of terrorism, killing sprees, murders involving torture, and the killing...

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News US trade rep puts China on ‘watch list’ for copyright infringement
US trade rep puts China on ‘watch list’ for copyright infringement
Chris Buell
April 29, 2005 02:43:00 pm

The US Trade Representative on Friday said the office had placed China on a "priority watch list" due to what the US considers rampant copyright infringement in the country. China was at the center of the US...

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News GOP sets June target for social security draft legislation
GOP sets June target for social security draft legislation
Chris Buell
April 29, 2005 02:16:00 pm

House Republicans on Friday said they planned to finish drafting social security reform legislation by June, a day after President Bush in a prime-time press conference challenged legislators to move forward on the issue. House Ways and Means...

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News BREAKING NEWS ~ US, Italy fail to agree on shooting investigation
BREAKING NEWS ~ US, Italy fail to agree on shooting investigation
Chris Buell
April 29, 2005 12:33:00 pm

AP is reporting that the US and Italy have issued a joint statement that they have failed to agree on the circumstances surrounding the shooting of an Italian agent by US soldiers in Iraq. Italy had indicated earlier [AP...

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News Taiwanese opposition, Chinese president end hostilities
Taiwanese opposition, Chinese president end hostilities
Chris Buell
April 29, 2005 11:42:00 am

Taiwan opposition leader Lien Chan and Chinese President Hu Jintao agreed on Friday to end decades of hostility and to work to avoid dangerous tensions in the Taiwan Strait during a historic meeting in...

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News UPDATE ~ Chalabi named to deputy prime minister post in new Iraq cabinet
UPDATE ~ Chalabi named to deputy prime minister post in new Iraq cabinet
Chris Buell
April 29, 2005 11:20:00 am

Following up on a story reported Thursday on JURIST, prominent Iraqi politician Ahmad Chalabi was named deputy prime minister and acting oil ministry chief in the Cabinet approved Wednesday by the interim national assembly...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Montgomery started racially-integrated bus service after boycott

On December 21, 1956, buses in Montgomery, Alabama, started racially integrated service following federal court rulings ending on-board segregation. Bus boycott leaders Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King and Rev. Ralph Abernathy were among the first riders under the new scheme. Learn about the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

Stalin born

On December 21, 1879, Joseph Stalin was born in Gori, Georgia. In 1922, he became leader of the USSR until his death in 1953. During his time as Soviet dictator, Stalin industrialized his country, which he then led to become one of the world's two superpowers after WWII. Through his infamous purges, show trials and nationwide famines, Stalin also became responsible for millions of deaths.

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