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Federal judge vacates ex-Enron CFO broadband conviction
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February 1, 2007 08:27:00 am

A federal district judge on Wednesday vacated the conviction of former Enron CFO Kevin Howard in light of an August 2006 opinion by the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth...

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Class action representatives Jennifer Gratz and Patrick Hamacher have settled their suit challenging the former affirmative action policies of the University of Michigan after a district judge on Wednesday issued an order approved the settlement terms, decertified...

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Joshua Pantesco
February 1, 2007 07:46:00 am

US District Judge Reggie Walton on Wednesday denied several motions challenging the ongoing detentions of 16 Guantanamo Bay detainees, ruling that until the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit decides whether civilian judges may...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Warsaw Pact signed

On May 14, 1955, seven communist countries in Eastern Europe (Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland Romania, and the USSR) signed the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance (Warsaw Pact), a mutual defense accord created to counter NATO in the West. East Germany joined in 1959. Albania left in 1968.

Delegates gathered in Philadelphia for the Constitutional Convention

On May 14, 1787, delegates from each state begin to arrive in Philadelphia for the Constitutional Convention.

The last delegates arrived 10 days later, on May 24. Learn more about the Constitutional Convention.

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