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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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