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News Khmer Rouge genocide tribunal selection process underway
Khmer Rouge genocide tribunal selection process underway
Joshua Pantesco
March 10, 2006 12:14:00 pm

Both the UN and Cambodia have submitted "short lists" of possible judges for the Khmer Rouge war crimes tribunal that will be probing crimes against humanity by the Cambodian communist regime...

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News War crimes court finds Croats who leaked witness name in contempt
War crimes court finds Croats who leaked witness name in contempt
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
March 10, 2006 12:01:00 pm

The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia at The Hague Friday convicted two Croatians - a journalist and a former security official - for contempt in disclosing the name of...

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News Zimbabwe police arrest 15 for plotting Mugabe overthrow
Zimbabwe police arrest 15 for plotting Mugabe overthrow
Joshua Pantesco
March 10, 2006 11:53:00 am

Zimbabwean police have arrested 15 members of the opposition group Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) after reportedly uncovering a collection of stockpiled weapons connected to the clandestine Zimbabwe Freedom Movement (ZFM) , a group established in 2003...

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News China creates special intellectual property court
China creates special intellectual property court
Joshua Pantesco
March 10, 2006 11:50:00 am

China has established a Judicial Court of Intellectual Property to handle piracy and intellectual property cases nationwide, according to a court spokesman speaking Friday at a Beijing news conference held during the annual meeting of the parliamentary National People's...

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News Port security legislation still looms after Dubai company withdrawal from deal
Port security legislation still looms after Dubai company withdrawal from deal
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
March 10, 2006 11:17:00 am

New legislation aimed at improving security at American ports remained very much on the policy agenda of Republican and Democratic lawmakers Friday even in the wake of an announcement from United Arab Emirates-owned Dubai Ports World [corporate...

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News Milan prosecutors call for corruption indictment of Italian PM Berlusconi
Milan prosecutors call for corruption indictment of Italian PM Berlusconi
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
March 10, 2006 10:31:00 am

Prosecutors in Milan announced Friday that after an investigation they have formally asked a judge to issue an indictment against Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and his former lawyer, British barrister David Mills,...

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News Iraq says closed Abu Ghraib would not house detainees; Red Cross seeks access
Iraq says closed Abu Ghraib would not house detainees; Red Cross seeks access
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
March 10, 2006 08:18:00 am

An Iraqi Justice Ministry official responding to a US military statement that the US will eventually close its operation at Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad and hand the facility back to Iraqi authorities said...

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News Hariri tribunal preparations almost complete
Hariri tribunal preparations almost complete
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
March 10, 2006 06:41:00 am

Preparations for the establishment of an international tribunal to try those accused of killing former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and others in a Beirut bombing in February 2005 are almost complete, according to a Lebanese...

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News Moussaoui judge warns prosecutors not to base death penalty case on failure to act
Moussaoui judge warns prosecutors not to base death penalty case on failure to act
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
March 10, 2006 06:15:00 am

Presiding US District Judge Leonie Brinkema Thursday warned prosecutors in the sentencing trial of Zacarias Moussaoui against making any indication to jury members that Moussaoui was obligated to tell FBI agents about his terrorist...

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News Doctors' letter on Guantanamo force-feeding [Lancet]
Doctors' letter on Guantanamo force-feeding [Lancet]
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
March 9, 2006 09:34:00 pm

Letter on force-feeding and restraint of Guantanamo Bay hunger strikers, Dr. David Nicholl and others, The Lancet, March 9, 2006 [urged the US government to ensure that detainees at Guantanamo Bay are examined by independent physicians and that methods such...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

UK parliament rejected J.S. Mill's proposal to give women the vote

On May 20, 1867, the British Parliament rejected by 196-73 an amendment to the 1867 Reform Act presented by John Stuart Mill that would have permitted women to vote. Review Mill's 1869 work The Subjection of Women.

Supreme Court applies Free Exercise Clause to state governments

On May 20, 1940, the United States Supreme Court held that the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment applied to state governments in Cantwell v. Connecticut under the incorporation doctrine, which applied the protections of the Bill of Rights to state governments through the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Learn more about the Incorporation Doctrine from the Cornell Law Schools' Legal Information Institute.

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