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News Eight Serbian police charged with 1999 killing of 48 Kosovo Albanians
Eight Serbian police charged with 1999 killing of 48 Kosovo Albanians
Greg Sampson
April 25, 2006 05:00:00 pm

Prosecutors in Serbia on Tuesday charged eight policemen for the killing of 48 Kosovar Albanians in the first weeks of the 1999 war in Kosovo . According to the indictment, the police officers are accused...

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News US immigration rule changes announced ahead of threatened litigation
US immigration rule changes announced ahead of threatened litigation
Greg Sampson
April 25, 2006 04:39:00 pm

A US Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) spokesman said Tuesday that the agency would introduce new rules to speed up the immigration process and prevent serious delays, apparently sidestepping a threat of mass lawsuits from Arab rights...

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News House intelligence bill gives CIA, NSA more arrest, pension power to counter leaks
House intelligence bill gives CIA, NSA more arrest, pension power to counter leaks
Jeannie Shawl
April 25, 2006 04:27:00 pm

The Intelligence Authorization Bill for Fiscal Year 2007 , up for a vote in the US House this week, contains several provisions which would expand the authority of the National Security Agency and Central Intelligence...

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News Bush takes legal steps to address gasoline price rise
Bush takes legal steps to address gasoline price rise
Greg Sampson
April 25, 2006 04:14:00 pm

As part of a larger response to record high gasoline prices, President George W. Bush on Tuesday announced that the US Environmental Protection Agency would suspend certain rules governing the refining of gasoline. By avoiding...

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News Abu Ghraib chief of interrogations to face military charges
Abu Ghraib chief of interrogations to face military charges
Jeannie Shawl
April 25, 2006 03:39:00 pm

Lt. Col. Steven L. Jordan, who was in charge of the Joint Interrogation and Debriefing Center at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison in 2003, will face charges in connection to the prison abuse scandal, a lawyer...

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News Saudi prisoner denounces military commission at Guantanamo hearing
Saudi prisoner denounces military commission at Guantanamo hearing
Greg Sampson
April 25, 2006 03:37:00 pm

Accused Saudi Al Qaeda operative Jabran Said bin al Qahtani, a prisoner at the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay , told a US military commission there Tuesday that the United States was an "enemy of God"...

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News Zimbabwe security minister threatens deadly force against anti-Mugabe protesters
Zimbabwe security minister threatens deadly force against anti-Mugabe protesters
Jeannie Shawl
April 25, 2006 03:11:00 pm

Zimbabwe State Security Minister Didymus Mutasa on Tuesday repeated his threats that government soldiers and police will use deadly force if necessary to thwart any protests organized by opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai . Mutasa was...

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News Jury deadlock in California terror case prompts mistrial declaration
Jury deadlock in California terror case prompts mistrial declaration
Jeannie Shawl
April 25, 2006 02:29:00 pm

US District Judge Garland E. Burrell Jr. on Tuesday declared a mistrial in the case of Umer Hayat, who is accused of lying to the FBI about his son's alleged terrorism-related activities, after the jury failed to...

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News Syria president meets with UN investigator in Hariri probe
Syria president meets with UN investigator in Hariri probe
Jeannie Shawl
April 25, 2006 01:56:00 pm

Serge Brammertz , the deputy prosecutor of the International Criminal Court who is heading the UN's independent investigation into the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri , on Tuesday met with Syrian...

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News Supreme Court rules in sovereign immunity, habeas time limit cases
Supreme Court rules in sovereign immunity, habeas time limit cases
Jeannie Shawl
April 25, 2006 10:17:00 am

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday handed down opinions in two cases, including Northern Insurance v. Chatham County , 04-1618, where the Court held that an entity that is not entitled...

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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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