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News UK education authority allows schools to ban Muslim veils
UK education authority allows schools to ban Muslim veils
Jaime Jansen
October 5, 2007 10:17:00 am

The UK Department of Education and Skills issued updated school uniform guidelines Thursday that allow school heads to ban Muslim veils but stopped short of imposing a government ban on religious dress that...

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News Musharraf signs amnesty agreement for Pakistan ex-PM
Musharraf signs amnesty agreement for Pakistan ex-PM
Jaime Jansen
October 5, 2007 10:14:00 am

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf signed a "reconciliation ordinance" Friday, granting amnesty to former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto on corruption charges. The agreement reached between the two political rivals clears...

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News Haditha Marine squad leader should not face murder charges: investigating officer
Haditha Marine squad leader should not face murder charges: investigating officer
Michael Sung
October 5, 2007 10:02:00 am

The investigating officer who headed the Article 32 hearing for US Marine Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich has recommended that Wuterich not face unpremeditated murder charges but instead be tried for negligent homicide, defense lawyers said...

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News Senate hearings on Mukasey AG nomination could begin mid-October: Leahy
Senate hearings on Mukasey AG nomination could begin mid-October: Leahy
Jaime Jansen
October 5, 2007 10:02:00 am

Senate confirmation hearings for US Attorney General nominee Michael B. Mukasey could begin as early as October 17, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) said Thursday. Leahy on Tuesday listed what he...

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News Recording labels win first illegal file-sharing suit to go to trial
Recording labels win first illegal file-sharing suit to go to trial
Jaime Jansen
October 5, 2007 09:00:00 am

A federal jury awarded six recording companies $222,000 Thursday in Virgin v. Thomas , the first music file-sharing lawsuit to go to trial, ordering Jammie Thomas to pay for sharing 24 copyrighted songs on the Internet. The recording...

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News Democrats demand DOJ interrogation memos
Democrats demand DOJ interrogation memos
Jaime Jansen
October 5, 2007 08:01:00 am

Leading Democrats on Capitol Hill on Thursday demanded that the US Department of Justice (DOJ) hand over two 2005 legal opinions that reportedly endorse severe interrogation techniques . Earlier Thursday, the New York Times first reported...

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News Police liable for negligent investigations: Canada Supreme Court
Police liable for negligent investigations: Canada Supreme Court
Mike Rosen-Molina
October 4, 2007 07:18:00 pm

The Supreme Court of Canada Thursday ruled that police officers can be held liable for inadequate investigations, in a case that could have major repercussions for the way that Canadian police work is...

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News Medics worldwide urged not to participate in lethal injections
Medics worldwide urged not to participate in lethal injections
Alexis Unkovic
October 4, 2007 06:03:00 pm

Amnesty International Thursday urged medical professionals worldwide to refrain from participating in executions. In a new report examining the practice of execution by lethal injection , Amnesty said doctors and nurses break...

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News Senate Judiciary Committee backs journalist shield bill
Senate Judiciary Committee backs journalist shield bill
Alexis Unkovic
October 4, 2007 05:34:00 pm

The US Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday voted 15-2 to send a federal shield bill , which would protect reporters from being compelled to disclose confidential sources, to the full Senate for consideration. The Bush administration...

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News Chile judge indicts Pinochet relatives, associates
Chile judge indicts Pinochet relatives, associates
Alexis Unkovic
October 4, 2007 05:08:00 pm

Twenty-three family members and former associates of the late former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet were indicted in Chile Thursday on corruption charges. The 23 suspects include five...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Maurice Papon convicted of war crimes

On April 2, 1998, Maurice Papon was convicted of war crimes for his role in deporting French Jews to concentration camps during the Nazi occupation of France. Under German occupation, Papon served as the supervisor of the Service for Jewish Questions in Bordeaux from which he collaborated with the Nazi SS and oversaw the deportation of 1,560 Jewish men, women, and children to concentration camps. Read a biography of Maurice Papon from the BBC.

Massachusetts enacted anti-Vietnam War bill

On April 2, 1970, the Governor of Massachusetts signed into law an anti-Vietnam War bill providing that no inhabitant of Massachusetts inducted into or serving in the armed forces "shall be required to serve" abroad in an armed hostility that had not been declared a war by Congress under Article I, Section 8, clause 11 of the United States Constitution. Supporters of the legislation hoped that the US Supreme Court would seize on the obvious conflict that the bill created between state and federal law and would rule on the constitutionality of the Vietnam War itself, but the Court refused to exercise original jurisdiction, forcing the case into the lower federal courts.

Trial of Marquess of Queensberry begins, leading to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde

On April 2, 1895, the libel trial of the Marquess of Queensberry began on allegations that he called Oscar Wilde a "posing somdomite [sic]". The trial led to the disclosure of details of Wilde's personal life that eventually resulted in his imprisonment for homosexuality. Read about the trials of Oscar Wilde.

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