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News Argentina calls for Peron extradition from Spain
Argentina calls for Peron extradition from Spain
Brett Murphy
February 14, 2007 08:15:00 am

Argentina has made a formal request that Spain extradite former Argentine President Isabel Peron , officials from the Argentinean Foreign Ministry said Tuesday. The request was made in connection to Federal Judge Raul Acosta's investigation...

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News Islamic charity asset freeze ruling [DC Circuit]
Islamic charity asset freeze ruling [DC Circuit]
February 13, 2007 10:27:00 pm

Islamic American Relief Agency v. Gonzalez, US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, February 13, 2006 [ruling upholding a freeze on the assets of an Islamic charity on the grounds that it was affiliated with the Islamic African...

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News Released Egyptian cleric plans lawsuit against US, Italy
Released Egyptian cleric plans lawsuit against US, Italy
Ryan Olden
February 13, 2007 08:40:00 pm

Freed Egyptian cleric Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr , the victim of an alleged 2003 CIA kidnapping and extraordinary rendition from Milan, is planning a lawsuit against the...

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News Appeals court upholds asset freeze of Islamic charity linked to terror funders
Appeals court upholds asset freeze of Islamic charity linked to terror funders
Ryan Olden
February 13, 2007 07:49:00 pm

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Tuesday upheld a freeze on the assets of the Islamic-American Relief Agency of Columbia, Missouri on the grounds that it was...

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News Sixth US serviceman enters guilty plea in Hamdania murder case
Sixth US serviceman enters guilty plea in Hamdania murder case
Alexis Unkovic
February 13, 2007 07:32:00 pm

US Marine Lance Cpl. Robert B. Pennington pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges of murder, kidnapping, housebreaking, larceny and conspiracy for his role in the death of Iraqi civilian Hashim Ibrahim Awad in Hamdania...

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News Judge sentences former CIA contractor to eight years for abusing Afghan detainee
Judge sentences former CIA contractor to eight years for abusing Afghan detainee
Holly Manges Jones
February 13, 2007 06:10:00 pm

A federal judge in Raleigh, North Carolina Tuesday sentenced David Passaro to eight years and four months in prison as well as three years of supervised release on charges related...

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News Pakistan ruling party proposes bill ending forced marriages
Pakistan ruling party proposes bill ending forced marriages
Lisl Brunner
February 13, 2007 04:55:00 pm

A bill to end forced marriages was proposed in the parliament of Pakistan by the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Q party (Quaid) Tuesday. The Prevention of Anti-women Practices Bill 2006 would also outlaw a tribal...

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News Ex-CIA top official indicted with defense contractor in Cunningham corruption case
Ex-CIA top official indicted with defense contractor in Cunningham corruption case
Lisl Brunner
February 13, 2007 04:12:00 pm

Former CIA executive director Kyle "Dusty" Foggo and defense contractor Brent Wilkes were indicted by a grand jury Tuesday on charges connected with the case of former Congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham . The FBI...

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ABA adopts new judicial conduct policies
Lisl Brunner
February 13, 2007 03:27:00 pm

The American Bar Association (ABA) House of Delegates adopted new policies Monday reforming the Model Code of Judicial Conduct to limit certain political activities of judges. The adopted rules include a prohibition on...

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South Dakota House committee approves new anti-abortion bill
Brett Murphy
February 13, 2007 02:10:00 pm

The South Dakota House State Affairs committee has approved a new bill that would criminalize abortions in the state, but grant exceptions for rape, aggravated incest and to prevent the death of the...

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FDR proposed 'court-packing' plan

On February 5, 1937, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, frustrated with the US Supreme Court's treatment of some of his economic reforms, proposed a plan to add judges to that and other federal courts whenever a sitting judge reached the age of seventy but declined to retire. Critics accused Roosevelt of indulging in autocracy and "court-packing." Review the text of Roosevelt's "fireside chat" on the proposal from March 9, 1937. Roosevelt eventually dropped the initiative but was nonetheless able to fill seven vacancies on the Court over the next four years, achieving his goal indirectly.

Panamanian dictator Noriega indicted

On February 5, 1988, Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega was indicted on charges of drug smuggling and money laundering. The following year, he was extradited to the United States and later sentenced to 30 years in US federal prison. In 1999, the French government requested that Noriega be extradited to France, where he had been convicted of money laundering. In that same year, the government of Panama also requested the extradition of Noriega, as a result of his 1995 conviction in absentia on murder charges.

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