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JURIST named in ABA list of top legal news websites
Jaclyn Belczyk | JURIST Executive Director
December 4, 2009 02:56:00 pm

JURIST's Paper Chase legal news service has been named as one of the "100 best Web sites by lawyers, for lawyers" as chosen by the editors of the ABA Journal, the flagship magazine of the American Bar Association. Ranking...

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News Texas executes death row prisoner despite mental impairment defense
Texas executes death row prisoner despite mental impairment defense
Steve Dotterer
December 4, 2009 11:35:00 am

The State of Texas executed death row inmate Bobby Wayne Woods by lethal injection Thursday, over the objections of lawyers who argued Woods was mentally impaired and thus could not be executed under federal law. Defense lawyers...

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News Serbia ICTY cooperation progressing: report
Serbia ICTY cooperation progressing: report
Sarah Paulsworth
December 4, 2009 10:29:00 am

Serbia is cooperating with the work of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) , according to a report presented Thursday to the UN Security Council by...

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News Myanmar high court to consider Suu Kyi appeal
Myanmar high court to consider Suu Kyi appeal
Jaclyn Belczyk | JURIST Executive Director
December 4, 2009 09:05:00 am

Myanmar's Supreme Court has agreed to consider an appeal by opposition pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi against the 18-month extension of her house arrest, officials said Friday. Suu Kyi's lawyers filed the appeal...

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News Military judge denies admission of new charges against Guantanamo detainee
Military judge denies admission of new charges against Guantanamo detainee
Ximena Marinero
December 4, 2009 07:33:00 am

A US military judge ruled Thursday that the US government may partially amend the charges against Guantanamo Bay detainee Ibrahim Ahmed al Qosi by changing his jurisdictional basis, but may not include...

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News China court sentences 5 more to death for Xinjiang riot killings
China court sentences 5 more to death for Xinjiang riot killings
Dwyer Arce
December 3, 2009 02:15:00 pm

Five more people have been sentenced to death by a Chinese court in connection with the July Xinjiang riots , state media reported Thursday. The sentencing came in connection to the killing of a police...

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News Russia judges resign after criticizing lack of judicial independence
Russia judges resign after criticizing lack of judicial independence
Carrie Schimizzi
December 3, 2009 01:00:00 pm

Two justices on Russia's Constitutional Court renounced their positions Wednesday, on the recommendations of their fellow justices, after publicly criticizing the nation's lack of judicial independence. Senior justice Anatoly Kononov, whose term of office was...

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News Canada government releases e-mails alleging torture of Afghan detainees
Canada government releases e-mails alleging torture of Afghan detainees
Andrew Morgan
December 3, 2009 12:19:00 pm

The Canadian government on Wednesday released more than 40 redacted e-mails sent by former diplomat Richard Colvin to then-foreign affairs minister Peter MacKay raising concerns about the torture of detainees who were transferred to Afghan...

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News Honduras congress rejects Zelaya reinstatement
Honduras congress rejects Zelaya reinstatement
Steve Dotterer
December 3, 2009 11:59:00 am

The Honduran National Congress on Wednesday voted 111-14 not to reinstate ousted president Manuel Zelaya who was removed by a military coup earlier this year. The vote was held [El...

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News Deputy AG Ogden to step down in February 2010
Deputy AG Ogden to step down in February 2010
Brian Jackson
December 3, 2009 11:58:00 am

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Thursday that Deputy Attorney General David Ogden will resign from his position to reenter the private sector. Ogden outlined his reasons for leaving, citing his original...

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India sues Union Carbide over Bhopal industrial disaster

On April 8, 1985, the government of India filed a lawsuit against the Union Carbide Corporation for the Bhopal industrial disaster in which forty-two tons of methyl isocyanate gas was released from the pesticide plant of a Union Carbide subsidiary in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India. The disaster initially killed 2,000 Indians and injured another 200,000. These injuries led to another 16,000 deaths as a result of exposure to the gas. In 1989, the parties reached a $470 million settlement out of court. Learn more about the Bhopal industrial disaster from the Bhopal Gas Tragedy Relief and Rehabilitation Department of the government of Madhya Pradesh.

Seventeenth Amendment ratified

On April 8, 1913, the Seventeenth Amendment to the US Constitution, providing for the election of senators by popular vote rather than selection by state legislatures, was ratified. Learn more about the Seventeenth Amendment.

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