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News Kennedy, Leahy introduce resolution on NSA domestic spying
Kennedy, Leahy introduce resolution on NSA domestic spying
Alexis Unkovic
January 21, 2006 10:48:00 am

In anticipation of US Senate Judiciary Committee hearings next month, Democratic Senators Edward Kennedy (D-MA) and Patrick Leahy (D-VT) introduced a proposed Senate resolution Friday, criticizing the...

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News US bankruptcy judge grants final approval to United reorganization
US bankruptcy judge grants final approval to United reorganization
Alexis Unkovic
January 21, 2006 10:11:00 am

US Bankruptcy Judge Eugene Wedoff from the Northern District of Illinois signed off on the United Airlines reorganization plan Friday, in a move that will allow the airline to emerge from...

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News Western states ecoterrorism indictment [US DOJ]
Western states ecoterrorism indictment [US DOJ]
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
January 20, 2006 07:27:00 pm

US v. Joseph Bibee et al., United States District Court for the District of Oregon, January 19, 2006 [indictment of eleven people alleged to have carried out a series of arsons causing millions of dollars in damage in five Western...

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News Maryland same-sex marriage law ruling [Baltimore City Circuit Ct.]
Maryland same-sex marriage law ruling [Baltimore City Circuit Ct.]
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
January 20, 2006 06:16:00 pm

Gitanjali Deane and Lisa Polak et al. v. Frank Conoway et al., Judge M. Brooke Murdock, Baltimore City Circuit Court, January 20, 2006 [ruling against a 1973 Maryland state law that prohibits same-sex marriage, declaring that it subjects the plaintiff...

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News US charges tenth Guantanamo detainee
US charges tenth Guantanamo detainee
Jaime Jansen
January 20, 2006 05:00:00 pm

The US Department of Defense announced Friday that it has brought charges against a tenth Guantanamo Bay detainee. Abdul Zahir has been formally charged with conspiracy, aiding the enemy and attacking civilians,...

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News Pinochet immunity stripped in torture case
Pinochet immunity stripped in torture case
Jaime Jansen
January 20, 2006 04:54:00 pm

A Chilean appeals court Friday stripped former dictator Augusto Pinochet of immunity so he can face charges involving the torture of thousands of people at Villa Grimaldi , an infamous political detention center...

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News UK Foreign Secretary denies withholding rendition information
UK Foreign Secretary denies withholding rendition information
Jaime Jansen
January 20, 2006 03:44:00 pm

British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw denied Friday that he withheld any information from Parliament concerning Britain's involvement in secret CIA rendition flights and also said that there had not been any flights through Britain...

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News California death penalty moratorium blocked
California death penalty moratorium blocked
Jaime Jansen
January 20, 2006 03:27:00 pm

A California proposal for a two-year death penalty moratorium hit a permanent stumbling block in the California Assembly's Appropriations Committee Thursday. The moratorium proposal intended to suspend executions in California until...

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News Maryland court rejects same-sex marriage ban
Maryland court rejects same-sex marriage ban
James M Yoch Jr
January 20, 2006 02:32:00 pm

Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge M. Brooke Murdock on Friday ruled against a 1973 state law that prohibits same-sex marriage , declaring that the statute subjects the plaintiff couples to a discriminatory classification...

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News Former Pentagon official sentenced 12 years for classified info leak
Former Pentagon official sentenced 12 years for classified info leak
James M Yoch Jr
January 20, 2006 02:00:00 pm

US District Court Judge T.S. Ellis III of the Eastern District of Virginia on Friday sentenced former Pentagon analyst Lawrence A. Franklin to 12 years and 7 months in federal prison for leaking classified information...

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Nuremberg war crimes trials began

On October 18, 1945, the Nuremberg Trials of Nazi war criminals began. Read US prosecutor Robert H. Jackson's opening statement.

Women declared "Persons" in Canada

On October 18, 1929, The Privy Council of the United Kingdom declared that women were considered "persons" under the laws of Canada. The Supreme Court of Canada had held in Edwards v. Canada that women were not considered "persons" under Canada's governing law, the British North America Act. The Privy Council overturned this ruling, declaring "that the exclusion of women from all public offices is a relic of days more barbarous than ours. And to those who would ask why the word 'persons' should include females, the obvious answer is, why should it not?"

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