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News Trials begin for white supremacist prison gang members
Trials begin for white supremacist prison gang members
Holly Manges Jones
March 14, 2006 07:27:00 am

Four members of the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang go on trial Tuesday in California as the government attempts to bring an end to the white supremacist group. Altogether, twenty members of the gang face eventual trial in...

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News NAACP urges Justice Department to block New Orleans elections under Voting Rights Act
NAACP urges Justice Department to block New Orleans elections under Voting Rights Act
Tatyana Margolin
March 14, 2006 06:56:00 am

The president of the NAACP called on the US Justice Department Monday to block New Orleans mayoral elections currently scheduled for April 22, saying they would be "illegal" because the state of Louisiana "cannot guarantee...

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News Milosevic trial formally closed
Milosevic trial formally closed
Holly Manges Jones
March 14, 2006 06:49:00 am

The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia formally closed its war crimes case against former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic Tuesday, three days after he was found dead in his cell over...

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News Feingold resolution to censure Bush shuttled off to committee
Feingold resolution to censure Bush shuttled off to committee
Tatyana Margolin
March 14, 2006 06:33:00 am

A resolution introduced Monday in the US Senate by Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) to censure President Bush over domestic spying received only lukewarm approval from Feingold's fellow Democrats, preventing a floor vote...

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News Belarus jails 15 opposition activists days before presidential election
Belarus jails 15 opposition activists days before presidential election
Tatyana Margolin
March 14, 2006 05:55:00 am

Belarus authorities in Minsk Monday sentenced fifteen opposition activists to short jail terms as part of the government's latest effort to suppress opposition before Sunday's presidential elections. According to human rights monitors, the activists were not...

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News UK ID card legislation goes back to Lords after latest Commons endorsement
UK ID card legislation goes back to Lords after latest Commons endorsement
Tatyana Margolin
March 14, 2006 05:19:00 am

The controversial UK Identity Cards Bill will go back to the House of Lords on Wednesday after Prime Minister Tony Blair's governing Labour Party won a critical...

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News Memo against dismissal of Moussaoui death notice [US DC]
Memo against dismissal of Moussaoui death notice [US DC]
March 13, 2006 10:50:00 pm

Government's Memorandum in Opposition to Defendant's Motion to Dismiss the Death Notice and/or Exclusion of Witness, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, March 13, 2006 [memorandum opposing Moussaoui's motion to dismiss the death notice based on...

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News Moussaoui defense memo in support of death notice dismissal [US DC]
Moussaoui defense memo in support of death notice dismissal [US DC]
March 13, 2006 10:30:00 pm

Defendant's Memorandum in Support of his Motion to Dismiss the Death Notice and for Other Relief, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, March 13, 2006 [memorandum in support of Moussaoui's motion to dismiss the death notice...

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News Moussaoui trial prosecutorial misconduct letter [US DC]
Moussaoui trial prosecutorial misconduct letter [US DC]
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
March 13, 2006 09:38:00 pm

Ex Parte Communication by USA as to Zacarias Moussaoui, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, March 13, 2006 [redacted version of letter to US District Judge Leonie Brinkema describing prosecutorial misconduct of a TSA attorney in...

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News DOJ, Google to spar over search data in federal court
DOJ, Google to spar over search data in federal court
Christopher G. Anderson
March 13, 2006 04:08:00 pm

Google goes to federal court on Tuesday - backed by online privacy advocate groups - to fight a Bush administration subpoena that seeks to force the search engine giant to hand over an enormous amount of its...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

US Congress approves first Patent Act

On April 10, 1790, Congress approved the US's first Patent Act. The Patent Act of 1790 allowed inventors to maintain "sole and exclusive right and liberty of making, constructing, using and vending to others" a patented invention for fourteen years. The Act furthermore created the US Patent Board, the precursor to the modern US Patent Office. Read the current US Patent Law from the Cornell University Law School.

Hugo Grotius born

Hugo Grotius, Dutch jurist, statesman and father of international law was born in Delft, Holland, on April 10, 1583. His best-known work is De Jure Belli ac Pacis (On the Law of War and Peace), which he published in 1625.

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