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News US judge orders deportation of accused Nazi prison guard
US judge orders deportation of accused Nazi prison guard
Kate Heneroty
December 29, 2005 09:24:00 am

US Chief Immigration Judge Michael Creppy ruled Wednesday that John Demjanjuk , a retired auto worker living in Cleveland who is accused of having been a Nazi prison camp guard, should be deported to his native...

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Trial of ex-Enron executives delayed two weeks after Causey plea agreement
Kate Heneroty
December 29, 2005 08:51:00 am

The trial of former Enron executives Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling has been delayed two weeks until January 30, following a decision by former co-defendant Richard Causey to testify...

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News More charges filed against Red Cross workers accused of Katrina relief fraud
More charges filed against Red Cross workers accused of Katrina relief fraud
Kate Heneroty
December 29, 2005 08:46:00 am

Federal authorities have now indicted a total of 49 people for involvement in a scheme to fraudulently collect more than $200,000 from American Red Cross funds designed to assist Hurricane Katrina victims....

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Causey Enron plea agreement [US DC]
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
December 28, 2005 09:22:00 pm

US v. Richard A. Causey, Plea Agreement, United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, December 28, 2005 [former Enron Chief Accounting Officer pleading guilty to a single charge of securities fraud in exchange for his testimony against...

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Padilla Supreme Court mootness reply brief [US SC]
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
December 28, 2005 07:38:00 pm

Jose Padilla v. C.T. Hanft, Supreme Court of the United States, December 27, 2005 [petitioner's reply brief responding to the government's contention that Padilla's US Supreme Court appeal is moot and should be denied, insisting that his case "raises questions...

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Former Qwest VP pleads guilty to wire fraud
Jaime Jansen
December 28, 2005 04:36:00 pm

Former Qwest Communications vice president of investments, mergers and acquisitions Marc Weisberg pleaded guilty Wednesday to a single wire fraud count after his indictment in February on eight counts of wire fraud and...

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Ethiopian election protesters claim lawyers denied them
Jaime Jansen
December 28, 2005 03:36:00 pm

Some 80 opposition politicians, reporters and aid workers facing treason and genocide charges in Ethiopia relating to November's street clashes over May elections that killed 46 people have complained that they have been denied access to lawyers by prison...

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Pinochet fingerprints, mug shot taken by Chile police as rights case proceeds
Jaime Jansen
December 28, 2005 03:30:00 pm

Chilean police have taken fingerprints and a mug shot of former dictator Augusto Pinochet as part of his indictment over Operation Colombo , in which at least 119 dissidents were allegedly murdered during...

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Iraqi prisons minister to resign after abuse discoveries
Joshua Pantesco
December 28, 2005 03:19:00 pm

Iraqi Interior Minister Bayan Jabr , the minister in charge of Iraq's prison facilities, is expected to resign in the near future, according to multiple security and political sources. The reports follow accusations that he ran secret prisons...

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Algeria asks France to apologize for colonialist crimes
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December 28, 2005 03:04:00 pm

Algeria Wednesday asked the government of France to apologize for crimes committed during France’s colonization of Algeria, including France’s part in the massacres of 45,000 Algerians who demanded independence at the end of...

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Dred Scott decided

On March 6, 1857, the US Supreme Court announced its landmark decision in Dred Scott v. Sanford, holding that black people—slaves as well as free—were not and could never become citizens of the United States and that the 1820 Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional. Learn more about the Dred Scott case from Washington University in St. Louis (the city where Dred Scott initially filed his suit for freedom and had his case first tried). Review a selection of contemporary newspaper editorials reacting to the decision.

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