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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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News Trial of ex-Enron executives delayed two weeks after Causey plea agreement
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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News Causey Enron plea agreement [US DC]
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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News Padilla Supreme Court mootness reply brief [US SC]
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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News Former Qwest VP pleads guilty to wire fraud
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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News Ethiopian election protesters claim lawyers denied them
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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News Pinochet fingerprints, mug shot taken by Chile police as rights case proceeds
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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News Iraqi prisons minister to resign after abuse discoveries
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
Jaime Jansen
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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Congress passed first graduated income tax

On August 24, 1894, the US Congress passed the first graduated income tax law, which the US Supreme Court declared unconstitutional the next year in Pollack v. Farmer's Loan and Trust Company, 157 US 429 (1895) and (on rehearing) 158 US 601 (1895).

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On August 24, 1815, the first modern constitution for the Netherlands was signed. It was later revised in 1848 to create the country's parliamentary democracy. In 1983, the Dutch Constitution was rewritten again. Read the version of the Netherlands Constitution in effect today.

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