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News ICTY charges Seselj with contempt for revealing witness identities
ICTY charges Seselj with contempt for revealing witness identities
Kayleigh Shebs
January 23, 2009 07:04:00 am

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugolavia (ICTY) on Wednesday charged Volislav Seselj with contempt of court after it was alleged that Seselj authored...

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News Obama issues torture ban, orders CIA ‘secret prisons’ closed
Obama issues torture ban, orders CIA ‘secret prisons’ closed
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
January 22, 2009 08:13:00 pm

Discharging key campaign pledges on his third day in office, US President Barack Obama expressly banned US use of torture in interrogations and directed the immediate shutdown of CIA detention facilities in a third executive order...

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News Turkish police arrest 30 more over alleged coup plot
Turkish police arrest 30 more over alleged coup plot
Caitlin Price
January 22, 2009 03:16:00 pm

Turkish police on Thursday arrested approximately 30 more people, including eight army officers, nine policemen, and a union leader, in an investigation of an alleged plot to overthrow the government of the ruling Justice and Development...

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News China court sentences 2 to death over tainted milk scandal
China court sentences 2 to death over tainted milk scandal
Christian Ehret
January 22, 2009 01:11:00 pm

A Chinese court on Thursday sentenced two people to death and several to life imprisonment for their involvement in the melamine-tainted milk scandal that sickened almost 300,000 children and killed at least six. Chairwoman of the...

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News Obama orders Guantanamo prison closed within a year
Obama orders Guantanamo prison closed within a year
Jaclyn Belczyk | JURIST Executive Director
January 22, 2009 11:36:00 am

US President Barack Obama issued an executive order Thursday directing that the Guantanamo Bay military prison be closed "as soon as practicable, and no later than 1 year from the date of...

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News Federal judge rules Illinois school ‘moment of silence’ law unconstitutional
Federal judge rules Illinois school ‘moment of silence’ law unconstitutional
Safiya Boucaud
January 22, 2009 11:07:00 am

A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois on Wednesday ruled that an Illinois state law requiring a moment of silence in public schools is unconstitutional. Judge Robert Gettleman held...

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News Illinois school moment of silence ruling [US DC]
Illinois school moment of silence ruling [US DC]
January 22, 2009 10:58:00 am

Dawn S. Sherman, a minor, through Robert I. Sherman, her father and next friend, on behalf of herself and all other similarly situated, v. Township High School District 214, US District Court for the Northern of Illinois, January 21, 2009...

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News Child Online Protection Act dead after high court declines to hear DOJ appeal
Child Online Protection Act dead after high court declines to hear DOJ appeal
Steve Czajkowski
January 22, 2009 10:27:00 am

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday ended a decade-long battle by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) to have the Child Online Protection Act of 1998 (COPA) declared constitutional by denying...

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News Obama retakes presidential oath on lawyer’s advice
Obama retakes presidential oath on lawyer’s advice
Christian Ehret
January 22, 2009 10:07:00 am

US President Barack Obama retook the presidential oath of office Wednesday, administered by Chief Justice John Roberts , following minor mistakes the two made in the wording of the oath during Tuesday's...

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News Uganda high court rules death penalty constitutional
Uganda high court rules death penalty constitutional
Steve Czajkowski
January 22, 2009 09:26:00 am

The Supreme Court of Uganda on Wednesday ruled that the death penalty is not prohibited by Uganda's constitution because it does not constitute cruel and inhuman punishment. The decision comes on an...

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Benjamin Cardozo, future US Supreme Court Justice, was born on May 24, 1870. Learn more about Justice Benjamin Cardozo from the Oyez project at Northwestern University.

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