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News Turkish president vetoes constitutional amendment on presidential election process
Turkish president vetoes constitutional amendment on presidential election process
Mike Rosen-Molina
May 25, 2007 04:36:00 pm

Turkish President Ahmet Necdet Sezer Friday vetoed a constitutional amendment that would have changed the country's election procedures to allow the president to be elected by direct vote rather than selected by parliamentarians. The ruling Justice and...

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News UK renews call for extradition of Litvinenko poisoning death suspect
UK renews call for extradition of Litvinenko poisoning death suspect
Gabriel Haboubi
May 25, 2007 04:02:00 pm

UK Attorney General Lord Goldsmith Friday rejected a Russian offer to try the suspected murderer of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko in its own courts, calling for Andrei Lugovoy's extradition...

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Myanmar government extends detention of democracy advocate
Gabriel Haboubi
May 25, 2007 03:34:00 pm

The military government of Myanmar Friday extended the house arrest of pro-democracy advocate and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi for another year, rejecting calls for her release by...

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Right to tax-free legal services ruling [Canada SC]
May 25, 2007 03:22:00 pm

Attorney General of British Columbia v. Dugald E. Christie, Supreme Court of Canada, May 25, 2007 . Read the full text of the judgment. Reported in JURIST's Paper...

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EU questions Google privacy standards
Gabriel Haboubi
May 25, 2007 02:40:00 pm

The European Commission said Friday that an independent advisory panel will investigate Internet search engine giant Google to determine whether it complies with EU privacy rules . The Article 29...

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Ukraine leader claims troops but interior minister balks as prosecutor crisis deepens
Gabriel Haboubi
May 25, 2007 01:43:00 pm

Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko ordered Ukraine's interior ministry troops to come under his command Friday as a new crisis over Yushchenko's Thursday dismissal of the country's top prosecutor escalated, but...

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DOJ expands investigation into politicized hiring decisions
Gabriel Haboubi
May 25, 2007 12:38:00 pm

The US Department of Justice Office of Professional Responsibility has expanded its investigation into whether department aides illegally made hiring decisions based on consideration of applicants' political beliefs, the Los Angeles Times reported Thursday. The...

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Kansas AG seeks ruling on constitutionality of funeral picketing law
Michael Sung
May 25, 2007 11:06:00 am

Kansas Attorney General Paul Morrison filed a lawsuit Thursday to test the constitutionality of a new Kansas law restricting protests at military funerals . The law, signed by Gov. Kathleen Sebelius last month, will...

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Federal appeals court upholds fraud convictions of Adelphia execs
Michael Sung
May 25, 2007 10:32:00 am

The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit upheld the fraud convictions of Adelphia Communications founder John J. Rigas and son Timothy J. Rigas on all but one count Thursday, reversing and acquitting the...

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Mexico rights panel criticizes Oaxaca uprising response
Michael Sung
May 25, 2007 09:47:00 am

Mexico's National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) , an independent government council tasked with investigating alleged abuses of human rights in Mexico, issued a report Thursday criticizing the Mexican federal government's response to a May 2006 teachers' strike that...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Congress set minimum federal sentences for drug offenders

On November 2, 1951, President Harry Truman signed the "Boggs Act" into law, setting minimum federal sentences for drug offenders.

Read Richard J. Bonnie and Charles Whitebread, The Forbidden Fruit and the Tree of Knowledge: An Inquiry Into the Legal History of American Marijuana Prohibition, 56 Virginia Law Review (1970).

Balfour Declaration issued

On November 2, 1917, British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour issued the United Kingdom's formal statement regarding Jewish people in Palestine. The Balfour Declaration was later endorsed by the World War I Allied Powers. It stated the British intention to support a national homeland for Jewish people and became a cornerstone of the Zionist movement.

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