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News State-financed religious prison program ruling [US DC]
State-financed religious prison program ruling [US DC]
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
June 3, 2006 05:32:00 pm

Americans United for Church and State et al. v. Prison Fellowship Ministries et al., United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa, Chief Judge Robert W. Platt, June 2, 2006 [holding that a religious prison organization receiving government...

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News Canada police arrest 17 suspected of planning major terror attack
Canada police arrest 17 suspected of planning major terror attack
Holly Manges Jones
June 3, 2006 11:22:00 am

Canadian security authorities said Saturday that a major terrorist attack on Canadian targets had been thwarted by the arrests of twelve men and five youths in Ontario Friday. A spokesman for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police...

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News Bush pushes constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage ahead of Senate vote
Bush pushes constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage ahead of Senate vote
Holly Manges Jones
June 3, 2006 11:20:00 am

In his weekly radio address Saturday, President George W. Bush voiced his support for a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage which is scheduled for a vote in the US Senate in the coming...

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News Denmark adopts new anti-terror laws
Denmark adopts new anti-terror laws
Tom Henry
June 3, 2006 10:44:00 am

Denmark's parliament has adopted two new anti-terror measures conceived in the aftermath of the July 2005 London terrorist attacks . The new laws give the Danish Security Intelligence Service (PET) broader access to the...

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News Ireland passes emergency statutory rape bill after high court overturns 1935 law
Ireland passes emergency statutory rape bill after high court overturns 1935 law
Holly Manges Jones
June 3, 2006 10:44:00 am

Irish President Mary McAleese signed an emergency bill into law Friday authorizing jail sentences for persons convicted of for having sex with minors, but allowing them to use mistake of age as a defense. The bill...

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News Court rejects broad bid for documents in CIA leak case
Court rejects broad bid for documents in CIA leak case
Tom Henry
June 3, 2006 10:12:00 am

US District Judge Reggie B. Walton ruled Friday that most of the government documents sought by former Vice-Presidential aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby and his defense team were not closely tied to the narrow issue of...

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News Iraq denounces outcome of US Ishaqi probe, plans own investigation
Iraq denounces outcome of US Ishaqi probe, plans own investigation
Holly Manges Jones
June 3, 2006 10:07:00 am

Adnan al-Kazimi, an aide to new Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki , said Saturday that the Iraqi government would open its own investigation into the deaths of Iraq civilians in Ishaqi after an official statement [text;...

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News Appeals court rules nuclear plant expansion must be weighed for terror risk
Appeals court rules nuclear plant expansion must be weighed for terror risk
Tom Henry
June 3, 2006 09:40:00 am

A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled Friday that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission must examine the risk of a terrorist attack when it considers the...

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News Federal judge strikes down state-financed religious prison program
Federal judge strikes down state-financed religious prison program
Tom Henry
June 3, 2006 08:56:00 am

Judge Robert W. Pratt, chief judge of the US District Court for the Southern District of Iowa, ruled Friday that a religious prison organization receiving government funds violated the US Constitution because it was used to rehabilitate prison...

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News Florida Pledge of Allegiance recitation ruling [US DC]
Florida Pledge of Allegiance recitation ruling [US DC]
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
June 2, 2006 08:39:00 pm

Cameron Frazier v. Cynthia Alexandre, United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, Judge Kenneth L. Ryskamp, May 31, 2006 [holding that a state law requiring students to stand and recite the Pledge of Allegiance is unconstitutional and...

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On March 4, 1909, the Copyright Act of 1909 became law, making infringement of a copyright a federal crime for the first time. Review a brief history of copyright in the United States.

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