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News ICTY again charges Serb nationalist leader with contempt of court
ICTY again charges Serb nationalist leader with contempt of court
Sarah Paulsworth
February 5, 2010 12:00:00 pm

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Thursday charged former Serbian Radical Party (SRS) leader Volislav Seselj with contempt of the...

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News Vietnam court sentences pro-democracy activist to prison for assault
Vietnam court sentences pro-democracy activist to prison for assault
Patrice Collins
February 5, 2010 10:08:00 am

A Vietnamese court on Friday sentenced pro-democracy writer and rights activist Tran Khai Thanh Thuy to three-and-a-half years in prison on assault charges. Thuy and her husband, who received two years' house arrest, were convicted ...

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News DOJ urges additional revisions to Google book search settlement
DOJ urges additional revisions to Google book search settlement
Daniel Makosky
February 5, 2010 08:36:00 am

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a statement of interest Thursday urging the US District Court for the Southern District of New York to reject the amended class action settlement...

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News UN chief unsure whether Israeli, Palestinian war crimes reports meet UN mandate
UN chief unsure whether Israeli, Palestinian war crimes reports meet UN mandate
Bhargav Katikanen
February 5, 2010 08:07:00 am

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon said Thursday that it is unclear whether Israel and Palestine have fully met UN demands to set up a commission to investigate war crimes that may occurred during the...

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News Africa rights commission rules Kenya illegally evicted indigenous people
Africa rights commission rules Kenya illegally evicted indigenous people
David Manes
February 5, 2010 07:50:00 am

The African Commission on Human and People's Rights ruled Thursday that the government of Kenya violated the rights of the Endorois people when it forcibly evicted them from their land. The Endorois are...

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News Haiti officials charge 10 Americans with kidnapping children
Haiti officials charge 10 Americans with kidnapping children
Matt Glenn
February 5, 2010 07:45:00 am

Haitian authorities charged ten US citizens Thursday with kidnapping 33 children. The Americans, many of whom were from the Idaho-based New Life Children's Refuge , were arrested last week for attempting to take the children across...

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News Canada government will not seek Khadr repatriation
Canada government will not seek Khadr repatriation
Megan McKee | JURIST Staff
February 5, 2010 07:41:00 am

Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon said Wednesday that the Harper administration will not seek the repatriation of Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr . Cannon said that while the government is considering options...

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News US prosecutors bring new charges against Illinois ex-governor Blagojevich
US prosecutors bring new charges against Illinois ex-governor Blagojevich
Matt Glenn
February 5, 2010 06:47:00 am

Prosecutors from the US Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Illinois issued a superseding indictment against former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich Thursday. The new indictment, which does not allege additional wrongdoing but...

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News New York AG sues Bank of America for misleading shareholders
New York AG sues Bank of America for misleading shareholders
Zach Zagger
February 4, 2010 02:18:00 pm

The New York Office of the Attorney General on Wednesday filed civil charges against Bank of America (BOA) , former CEO Ken Lewis, and former CFO Joseph Price, alleging that the bank misled investors in...

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News Spain court rules judge Garzon may have exceeded authority in Franco probe
Spain court rules judge Garzon may have exceeded authority in Franco probe
Sarah Miley
February 4, 2010 02:11:00 pm

A Spanish Supreme Court judge ruled on Thursday that National Court judge Baltasar Garzon may have exceeded his jurisdictional authority when he launched an investigation into war crimes allegedly committed...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

White supremacists overthrow government in Wilmington, North Carolina

A group of white supremacists overthrew the government of Wilmington, North Carolina on November 10, 1898, killing at least dozens of Black people in the process. The city's Republican government resigned after the 500-2,000 strong white mob burned the offices of a Black-owned newspaper and terrorized black neighborhoods. The new state Democratic government passed laws in 1899 disenfranchising Black voters across North Carolina. Learn more about the 1898 Wilmington Coup.

Supreme Court limited free speech in wartime

On November 10, 1919, the US Supreme Court ruled in Abrams v. United States that the federal government could criminalize speech if it was of a type tending to bring about harmful results, in this case, resistance to the United States war effort. In a powerful dissenting opinion, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes countered that even during wartime, free speech could only be curtailed when there was clear and "present danger of immediate evil or an intent to bring it about."

Leonid Brezhnev dies

On November 10, 1982, Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev died of a heart attack. He had served as leader of the USSR from October 1964 until his death. Following his death, the Soviet Union cycled through three more leaders during the 1980s until Mikhail Gorbachev allowed the country to dissolve in 1991. Read an obituary of Leonid Brezhnev from the New York Times.

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