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News US dismisses UK call to close Guantanamo Bay
US dismisses UK call to close Guantanamo Bay
Angela A. Onikepe
May 11, 2006 01:07:00 am

US officials have dismissed a call from UK Attorney General Lord Goldsmith to close the facility at Guantanamo Bay used to detain terror suspects, saying that the US is working to release...

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News Goldsmith Guantanamo closure speech [UK AG]
Goldsmith Guantanamo closure speech [UK AG]
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
May 10, 2006 10:07:00 pm

UK Terrorism Legislation in an International Context, Lord Peter Goldsmith at the Royal United Services Institute, May 10, 2006 [reviewing UK terrorism law in the context of similar initiatives elsewhere and calling for the closure of the US prison for...

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News Supreme Court narrowly rejects stay in deportation case
Supreme Court narrowly rejects stay in deportation case
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
May 10, 2006 09:22:00 pm

The US Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Wednesday against issuing a stay of removal in the case of a British citizen with US permanent resident status who had been convicted of marijuana possession, domestic violence and resisting arrest...

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News Electioneering communication ban ruling [US DC]
Electioneering communication ban ruling [US DC]
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
May 10, 2006 09:01:00 pm

Christian Civic League of Maine, Inc. v. Federal Election Commission, et al., United States District Court for the District of Columbia, May 9, 2006 [upholding the electioneering communication ban in the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 that prohibits TV...

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News Overseas HIV/AIDS funding peg to anti-prostitution pledge ruling [US DC]
Overseas HIV/AIDS funding peg to anti-prostitution pledge ruling [US DC]
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
May 10, 2006 08:15:00 pm

Alliance for an Open Society International et al. v. United States Agency for International Development et al., United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Judge Victor Marrero, May 9, 2006 [ruling that the federal government is...

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News CIA nominee suggests surveillance law could be modified
CIA nominee suggests surveillance law could be modified
Holly Manges Jones
May 10, 2006 04:45:00 pm

US Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL) said Wednesday that General Michael Hayden , the Bush administration's nominee for CIA director replacing Porter Goss, has suggested that he might welcome a modification to the 1978 Foreign...

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News Canada MP forced to quit committee chairmanship after tiff with CJ over judges
Canada MP forced to quit committee chairmanship after tiff with CJ over judges
Holly Manges Jones
May 10, 2006 03:06:00 pm

Maurice Vellacott , a Conservative Party member of the Canadian Parliament , resigned Wednesday from his position as chairman of the House of Commons Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Committee after...

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News UK Attorney General invokes American traditions in call to close Guantanamo Bay
UK Attorney General invokes American traditions in call to close Guantanamo Bay
Tom Henry
May 10, 2006 03:04:00 pm

British Attorney General Lord Goldsmith , already a critic of the US detention facility at Guantanamo Bay , Wednesday made a forceful public call for the shutdown of the facility. Making a speech ...

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News British doctors reject proposed euthanasia law ahead of Lords vote
British doctors reject proposed euthanasia law ahead of Lords vote
Holly Manges Jones
May 10, 2006 03:01:00 pm

British doctors belonging to the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) and the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) have said they oppose a bill now before the UK House of Lords that would...

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News Luttig quits federal appeals bench for Boeing VP/general counsel job
Luttig quits federal appeals bench for Boeing VP/general counsel job
Joshua Pantesco
May 10, 2006 02:44:00 pm

Judge J. Michael Luttig , 51, of the Richmond, Virginia-based US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit resigned from the bench Wednesday to accept a position as senior vice-president and general counsel ...

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Supreme Court ordered dissolution of Standard Oil

On May 15, 1911, the US Supreme Court found Standard Oil in violation of the Sherman Act and ordered its dissolution.

Read Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. U.S.

Austrian State Treaty signed

On May 15, 1955, the Allied Powers of World War II and representatives of Austria signed the Österreichischer Staatsvertrag (Austrian State Treaty), which re-established Austria as an independent nation for the first time since it was annexed by Nazi Germany in 1938. The treaty explicitly forbade any future attempts to unify with Germany.

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