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News Intelligence agents accused in Italy rendition case seek political resolution
Intelligence agents accused in Italy rendition case seek political resolution
Katerina Ossenova
January 9, 2007 02:28:00 pm

Faced with possible indictment by an Italian judge, US and Italian intelligence agents implicated in the 2003 kidnapping and extraordinary rendition from Milan of Egyptian cleric Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr Tuesday...

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News Supreme Court rules in immigration, patent cases
Supreme Court rules in immigration, patent cases
Jeannie Shawl
January 9, 2007 02:22:00 pm

The US Supreme Court handed down decisions in three cases Tuesday, including US v. Resendiz-Ponce , where the Court upheld the conviction of Juan Resendiz-Ponce on charges of attempting...

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News Two more convicted in Pitcairn sex trial
Two more convicted in Pitcairn sex trial
Katerina Ossenova
January 9, 2007 02:01:00 pm

The Pitcairn Supreme Court found two more men guilty Tuesday of rape and related offences against children as young as seven. The latest conviction of Shawn Christian and Brian Young follow the six other men convicted in...

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News Somalia air strike target on FBI most wanted list
Somalia air strike target on FBI most wanted list
Brett Murphy
January 9, 2007 01:44:00 pm

Fazul Abdullah Mohammed , one of the FBI's most wanted terror fugitives, was the target of two US air strikes in Somalia on Monday. Believed to be a member of al-Qaida and to have trained with...

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News Iraqi ex-electricity minister defends prison escape after corruption conviction
Iraqi ex-electricity minister defends prison escape after corruption conviction
Katerina Ossenova
January 9, 2007 01:29:00 pm

The former head of the Iraqi Ministry of Electricity Ayham al-Samaraie , who escaped from a Baghdad prison in December, has said he plans to return to his home in the United States. Al-Samaraie, a member...

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News State Farm Katrina insurance trial begins in Mississippi
State Farm Katrina insurance trial begins in Mississippi
Brett Murphy
January 9, 2007 01:19:00 pm

Opening statements were made Tuesday in insurance lawsuits brought against State Farm Fire & Casualty brought by policyholders who were denied claims after Hurricane Katrina . Judge L.T. Senter Jr. of the US District for...

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News Bush taps Fielding as new White House counsel
Bush taps Fielding as new White House counsel
Lisl Brunner
January 9, 2007 01:08:00 pm

US President George Bush announced Tuesday that Fred F. Fielding will serve as the new White House counsel . Fielding, who has advised Bush throughout his presidency and sat on the 9/11 Commission , will...

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News Germany to push for EU law criminalizing Holocaust denial
Germany to push for EU law criminalizing Holocaust denial
Jeannie Shawl
January 9, 2007 10:26:00 am

German Federal Minister of Justice Brigitte Zypries said at a press conference Monday that Germany will attempt to make denial of the World War II-era Holocaust in which millions of Jews died at the hands...

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News Number of hunger-striking Guantanamo detainees doubles
Number of hunger-striking Guantanamo detainees doubles
Lisl Brunner
January 9, 2007 10:16:00 am

The number of detainees on hunger-strike at Guantanamo Bay has increased this month to 11 from five as the detention center's fifth anniversary approaches on Thursday. US military spokesman have in the past insisted that...

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News Lawyers for Saddam co-defendants make last efforts to stop executions
Lawyers for Saddam co-defendants make last efforts to stop executions
Jeannie Shawl
January 9, 2007 09:58:00 am

Lawyers for Awad Hamed al-Bandar , former chief judge of Iraq's Saddam Hussein-era Revolutionary Court, and former Iraqi intelligence chief Barzan Ibrahim al Tikriti , the two Saddam Hussein co-defendants sentenced to...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Supreme Court ruled corporations due equal protection rights

On May 10, 1886, the US Supreme Court ruled in Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company that corporations were "persons" within the terms of the Fourteenth Amendment, and therefore were due rights of equal protection under state law.

Nelson Mandela became first black president of South Africa

On May 10, 1994, Nelson Mandela was inaugurated as the first black President of South Africa. Before becoming President, Mandela was an anti-Apartheid leader in segregated South Africa. He served twenty-seven years in prison before his release in 1990, after which he was elected president of the country. Mandela was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.

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