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News UK top judge: national courts not bound by Europe rights court
UK top judge: national courts not bound by Europe rights court
Andrea Bottorff
October 20, 2011 04:14:09 pm

The UK's top judge, Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales Lord Igor Judge , said on Wednesday that UK courts are not bound by decisions from the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) . Speaking before...

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News Libya PM confirms Muammar Gaddafi killed by opposition fighters
Libya PM confirms Muammar Gaddafi killed by opposition fighters
Andrea Bottorff
October 20, 2011 01:24:50 pm

Libyan opposition forces on Thursday captured and killed former leader Muammar Gaddafi in his hometown of Sirte, Libyan Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril confirmed at a press conference. Military forces loyal to the...

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News Oklahoma judge blocks new law restricting use of abortion pills
Oklahoma judge blocks new law restricting use of abortion pills
Andrea Bottorff
October 19, 2011 12:27:17 pm

An Oklahoma state court judge on Wednesday issued a temporary injunction against a new Oklahoma law that restricts how doctors may use abortion-inducing drugs to treat patients. Judge Daniel Owens of the...

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Libya officials urged to stop prisoner abuse
Andrea Bottorff
October 13, 2011 02:46:53 pm

Libyan forces have arrested nearly 2,500 people who face ongoing torture and detainment without formal charges , Amnesty International (AI) alleged Thursday. Interviews of 300 Libyan prisoners in August and September revealed that many were...

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Kazakhstan president signs restrictive law to curb religious extremism
Andrea Bottorff
October 13, 2011 01:33:13 pm

Kazakhstani President Nursultan Nazarbayev on Thursday signed into law a controversial bill dissolving religious organizations and requiring re-registration, drawing criticism from international observers. The bill dissolves current registrations and establishes a procedure requiring...

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Alabama defends immigration law in federal appeals court
Andrea Bottorff
October 12, 2011 01:49:27 pm

Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange on Tuesday submitted a filing in the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit asking the court not to stay the state's controversial immigration law . The filing was...

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Afghanistan government denies UN torture allegations
Andrea Bottorff
October 12, 2011 12:26:27 pm

Afghanistan's Ministry of Interior Affairs and the National Directorate of Security (NDS) on Tuesday denied prisoner torture allegations made earlier this week in a UN report. A spokesperson for the Ministry said at a press conference that...

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EU court advisor supports pollution fines against foreign airlines
Andrea Bottorff
October 6, 2011 02:24:04 pm

The EU Court of Justice (ECJ) advocate general Juliane Kokott on Thursday issued an opinion stating that an EU law forcing foreign airlines using EU airports to pay fees for greenhouse gas emissions is lawful ....

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Pakistan top judge orders political parties to cut ties with criminal gangs
Andrea Bottorff
October 6, 2011 01:26:07 pm

Pakistani Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry on Thursday issued a judgment urging political parties to stop financing criminal groups responsible for increased violence in the city of Karachi. In the judicial decision, Chaudhry...

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EU prosecutor to investigate alleged organ trafficking in Albania
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October 5, 2011 01:12:14 pm

Head of the European Union Rule of Law Mission to Kosovo (EULEX) , Xavier de Marnhac, announced on Wednesday that an EU prosecutor will visit Albania to investigate allegations of an organ trafficking scheme that took place in...

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FDR proposed 'court-packing' plan

On February 5, 1937, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, frustrated with the US Supreme Court's treatment of some of his economic reforms, proposed a plan to add judges to that and other federal courts whenever a sitting judge reached the age of seventy but declined to retire. Critics accused Roosevelt of indulging in autocracy and "court-packing." Review the text of Roosevelt's "fireside chat" on the proposal from March 9, 1937. Roosevelt eventually dropped the initiative but was nonetheless able to fill seven vacancies on the Court over the next four years, achieving his goal indirectly.

Panamanian dictator Noriega indicted

On February 5, 1988, Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega was indicted on charges of drug smuggling and money laundering. The following year, he was extradited to the United States and later sentenced to 30 years in US federal prison. In 1999, the French government requested that Noriega be extradited to France, where he had been convicted of money laundering. In that same year, the government of Panama also requested the extradition of Noriega, as a result of his 1995 conviction in absentia on murder charges.

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