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News Google compliance with subpoena of search records motion [US DOJ]
Google compliance with subpoena of search records motion [US DOJ]
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
January 20, 2006 01:48:00 pm

Alberto R. Gonzales v. Google, Inc., United States District Court for the Northern District of California, January 18, 2006 [seeking to compel Internet search giant Google to comply with a subpoena issued last summer that the company provide a "multi-stage...

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News Canada PM accuses opposition leader of planning to politicize high court
Canada PM accuses opposition leader of planning to politicize high court
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
January 20, 2006 01:35:00 pm

In a last-minute push to regain popular support in the final stages of the Canadian federal election campaign, Prime Minister Paul Martin has accused Conservative Party leader Stephen Harper of planning to pack the Supreme...

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News Eleven indicted in ecoterrorism arson plot
Eleven indicted in ecoterrorism arson plot
James M Yoch Jr
January 20, 2006 01:30:00 pm

US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on Friday unsealed the indictment of eleven people alleged to have carried out a series of arsons causing millions of dollars in damage in five Western states between...

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News Turkish court orders Pope gunman back to prison
Turkish court orders Pope gunman back to prison
Krista-Ann Staley
January 20, 2006 12:48:00 pm

A Turkish appeals court on Friday ordered Mehmet Ali Agca , the man who shot Pope John Paul II in 1981, to return to prison and Agca was subsequently taken into custody in Istanbul. Agca was...

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News Japan PM to introduce bill allowing female monarchs
Japan PM to introduce bill allowing female monarchs
Krista-Ann Staley
January 20, 2006 12:22:00 pm

Japanese Prime Minister and Liberal Democratic Party leader Junichiro Koizumi pledged to introduce a bill to reform the 1947 Imperial Household Law , allowing women to ascend to the country's imperial throne during his annual...

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News Accused Serb war criminal arrested in Australia
Accused Serb war criminal arrested in Australia
Krystal MacIntyre
January 20, 2006 11:21:00 am

Former Serb commander Dragan Vasiljkovic was arrested in Australia Thursday at the request of the Croatian government, who want to prosecute Vasiljkovic for war crimes committed during Croatia's 1991-1995 independence war. Vasiljkovic, now a...

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News Lawyers seek delay in deportation of Haitian illegal immigrants
Lawyers seek delay in deportation of Haitian illegal immigrants
Krystal MacIntyre
January 20, 2006 10:38:00 am

Lawyers across the country filed motions Thursday asking immigration judges to reconsider sending illegal immigrants back to Haiti. The motions are in response to the decision of the Department of Homeland Security to continue deporting Haitian immigrants,...

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News Retired military officers urge Bush clarification on torture ban
Retired military officers urge Bush clarification on torture ban
Krystal MacIntyre
January 20, 2006 10:00:00 am

A group of retired military leaders have sent a letter to President Bush seeking clarification on the president's plans to enforce a recently passed ban on the use of torture against terror detainees. Last month,...

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News Father of ‘American Taliban’ urges commuted sentence for son
Father of ‘American Taliban’ urges commuted sentence for son
Asha Puttaiah
January 20, 2006 08:59:00 am

The father of John Walker Lindh , the American caught fighting for the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001, called on President Bush Thursday to grant his son clemency and commute his 20 year sentence in...

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News Cheney defends NSA wiretapping program
Cheney defends NSA wiretapping program
Asha Puttaiah
January 20, 2006 08:39:00 am

US Vice President Dick Cheney on Thursday defended the Bush administration's authorization of domestic surveillance in the weeks following Sept. 11, saying the program is a crucial tool in monitoring terrorist organizations. In a...

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On November 4, 1646, the Massachusetts General Court approved a law requiring all members of the colony to recognize the Bible as the Word of God, under penalty of death.  

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