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News Domestic surveillance bill passed in House
Domestic surveillance bill passed in House
Kate Heneroty
September 29, 2006 07:23:00 am

The US House of Representatives passed the Electronic Surveillance Modernization Act Thursday night, voting 232-191 mostly along party lines. The bill, approved by the House Judiciary Committee last week, specifies when...

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News AMD foreign antitrust claims ruling [US DC]
AMD foreign antitrust claims ruling [US DC]
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
September 28, 2006 08:46:00 pm

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. et al. v. Intel Corporation et al., United States District Court for the District of Delaware, Judge Joseph Farnan, September 26, 2006 [ruling that AMD cannot proceed in US courts with a major portion of its...

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News Senate passes military commissions bill after rejecting habeas amendment
Senate passes military commissions bill after rejecting habeas amendment
James M Yoch Jr
September 28, 2006 07:34:00 pm

The US Senate approved its version of the military commissions bill in a 65-34 vote late Thursday after narrowly rejecting several amendments, including one sponsored by Senate Judiciary Committee chairman...

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News Lawmakers blast HP executives for allowing corporate spying
Lawmakers blast HP executives for allowing corporate spying
Kate Heneroty
September 28, 2006 07:14:00 pm

Members of the US House Energy and Commerce Committee lambasted executives of the Hewlett-Packard Corporation Thursday for their role in a corporate espionage scandal and demanded to know why company...

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News Canada police commissioner publicly apologizes to Arar for RCMP role in deportation
Canada police commissioner publicly apologizes to Arar for RCMP role in deportation
Katerina Ossenova
September 28, 2006 04:34:00 pm

Royal Canadian Mounted Police Commissioner Giuliano Zaccardelli made a formal apology Thursday to Maher Arar , the Canadian citizen who on suspicion of being linked to Al Qaeda was deported from the US...

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News Saddam defense demands end to ‘farce’ of genocide trial
Saddam defense demands end to ‘farce’ of genocide trial
Katerina Ossenova
September 28, 2006 04:06:00 pm

Lawyers for Saddam Hussein called for an end to Saddam's genocide trial in a statement issued Thursday, rejecting the proceeding as nothing more than a "farce" used to "offend the dignity of president...

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News Federal judge gives domestic spying another week
Federal judge gives domestic spying another week
Kate Heneroty
September 28, 2006 03:29:00 pm

US District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor on Thursday rejected the Bush Administration’s proposal to continue its domestic surveillance program while her August 17 decision finding the program unconstitutional and...

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News Belgium report flags legal problems with US financial monitoring program
Belgium report flags legal problems with US financial monitoring program
Katerina Ossenova
September 28, 2006 03:09:00 pm

The Belgian Data Privacy Commission released an advisory report Thursday concluding that the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) , the Belgium-based international banking cooperative, has been supplying the US Department of Treasury...

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News China denies rampant black market for executed prisoners’ organs
China denies rampant black market for executed prisoners’ organs
Holly Manges Jones
September 28, 2006 02:20:00 pm

Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang has denied a BBC report that human organs were being routinely taken from executed prisoners and sold to foreigners, saying that the donors must first give written consent to...

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News HP general counsel resigns before congressional hearing on company snooping
HP general counsel resigns before congressional hearing on company snooping
Holly Manges Jones
September 28, 2006 11:38:00 am

Hewlett-Packard announced the immediate resignation of its general counsel Thursday prior to a hearing held by a US House Energy and Commerce Committee panel to question key company officials on...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

President Ford offered amnesty to Vietnam draft-evaders

On September 16, 1974, President Gerald Ford announced a conditional amnesty program for Vietnam War deserters and draft-evaders which would waive any charges provided they agreed to work two years in public service. A Presidential Clemency Board was created to administer the program - it finished its work in September 1975 after having disposed of 14, 514 cases. Critics said the initiative did not go far enough, however, and noted that only about 19 percent of eligible persons even applied. Learn more about the conditional amnesty program from the Papers of Charles E. Goodell, the Washington lawyer who was Chairman of the PCB, now housed at the Ford Presidential Library in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Ozone Layer treaty opens for signatures

On September 16, 1987, the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer was opened for signature. It has since been signed by almost 200 nations. As a result, the Earth's Ozone Layer is expected to recover by the year 2050.

William O. Douglas born

On September 16, 1898, William O. Douglas was born in Maine Township, Minnesota. Douglas went on to become Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission before being named to the US Supreme Court by President Franklin Roosevelt. Douglas would become an influential civil libertarian on the Warren Court and the longest-tenured Justice in history, serving for 36 years and 7 months.

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