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News ICTY judge warns Karadzic not to delay war crimes trial
ICTY judge warns Karadzic not to delay war crimes trial
Andrew Gilmore
October 29, 2008 06:05:00 am

Judge Iain Bonomy of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Tuesday warned former Bosnian Serb leader and war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic not to cause any...

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News Google agrees to settle two copyright infringement lawsuits for book search
Google agrees to settle two copyright infringement lawsuits for book search
Andrew Gilmore
October 29, 2008 01:19:00 am

Internet search company Google, Inc. agreed Tuesday to settle two copyright infringement lawsuits stemming from its book-scanning initiative . The two lawsuits were brought against Google by The Authors Guild [advocacy...

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News US military judge excludes confession of Guantanamo detainee from trial
US military judge excludes confession of Guantanamo detainee from trial
Leslie Schulman
October 29, 2008 12:23:00 am

A US military judge ruled Tuesday that a confession given by Guantanamo Bay detainee Mohammed Jawad to Afghan officials following his capture in 2002 was obtained using torture and is therefore...

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News China legislature removes high court vice president without explanation
China legislature removes high court vice president without explanation
Lucas Tanglen
October 28, 2008 03:40:00 pm

Huang Songyou was removed from his position as vice president of China's Supreme People's Court Tuesday in a vote by Chinese legislators. No explanation was given for the action, but earlier...

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News Former ICTY spokesperson defers plea on contempt charges
Former ICTY spokesperson defers plea on contempt charges
Ximena Marinero
October 28, 2008 03:33:00 pm

Former spokesperson for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Florence Hartmann declined Monday to enter a plea on two counts of contempt she faces for allegedly releasing restricted information regarding court...

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Ukraine PM drops lawsuit against president after election order suspended
Devin Montgomery
October 28, 2008 01:41:00 pm

Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko on Monday withdrew a lawsuit she had brought against president Victor Yushchenko and the country's Central Election Commission (CEC) challenging Yushchenko's plan to...

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News Hate crime reports drop in 2007, but sexual-orientation bias crimes up: FBI
Hate crime reports drop in 2007, but sexual-orientation bias crimes up: FBI
Catherine
October 28, 2008 12:37:00 pm

Reports of hate crimes dropped approximately one percent in 2007 from the previous year but incidents of sexual-orientation bias crimes increased by six percent, according to the 2007 Hate Crime Statistics released by the US Federal...

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Visa and Mastercard settle antitrust suit
Christian Ehret
October 28, 2008 12:19:00 pm

Visa Inc. and Mastercard Inc. on Monday settled an antitrust suit with Discover Financial Services for $2.75 billion. Under the settlement, $1.8875 billion was apportioned to Visa and $862.5 million to Mastercard [press...

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Laos urged to release repatriated Hmong protest leaders
David Weber
October 28, 2008 12:03:00 pm

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday called on Laos to release leaders of the ethnic minority Hmong who were forcibly repatriated from Thailand and imprisoned in Laos for their roles in...

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Ex-Milberg Weiss partners sentenced to prison for obstruction, racketeering
Devin Montgomery
October 28, 2008 11:11:00 am

A judge in the US District Court for the Central District of California Monday sentenced Steven Schulman and David Bershad, two former partners of the law firm now known as Milberg LLP , to six months...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

President Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus

On April 27, 1861, US President Abraham Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus in Maryland and parts of several midwestern states during the American Civil War. Lincoln took this action to address draft riots and the threat of secession by Union states bordering the Confederacy. The President maintained his suspension even after it was overturned by the federal judiciary in Ex parte Merryman 17 F.Cas. 144 (1861). Learn more about Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus.

War crimes trials of WWII Japanese leaders began

On April 27, 1946, the International Military Tribunal for the Far East began its trials in Tokyo, Japan, ruling on the indictments of former Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo and 27 associates.

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