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News Media companies appeal new ownership rules
Media companies appeal new ownership rules
Amit Patel
January 31, 2005 02:51:00 pm

Tribune Co. and the parent companies of CBS, Fox and NBC have filed an appeal with the Supreme Court asking the court to restore the government's new media ownership rules which had been thrown out by the...

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News EU lifts diplomatic freeze on Cuba
EU lifts diplomatic freeze on Cuba
Amit Patel
January 31, 2005 02:35:00 pm

The European Union announced Monday that it will temporarily lift a diplomatic freeze imposed on Cuba after the Cuban government jailed 75 dissidents in March 2003. The lifting of sanctions follows the release of several dissidents. The...

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News Oregon rights group challenges amendment banning same-sex marriages
Oregon rights group challenges amendment banning same-sex marriages
Amit Patel
January 31, 2005 02:16:00 pm

Attorneys for Basic Rights Oregon filed a lawsuit Monday challenging the constitutionality of Measure 36 , a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage approved by Oregon voters that states "It is the policy of Oregon, and its...

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News Corporations & securities brief ~ Marsh & McLennan settles with Spitzer
Corporations & securities brief ~ Marsh & McLennan settles with Spitzer
Amit Patel
January 31, 2005 01:20:00 pm

Leading Monday's corporations and securities law news, Marsh & McLennan Cos. , the world's biggest insurance broker, has agreed to pay $850 million to settle charges that the company conspired with insurers to rig bids. Under the agreement...

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News Corporations & securities brief ~ SEC begins formal probe into Merck's handling of Vioxx
Corporations & securities brief ~ SEC begins formal probe into Merck's handling of Vioxx
Amit Patel
January 28, 2005 01:26:00 pm

Leading Friday's corporations and securities law news, Merck & Co. announced the SEC has started a formal probe into the company's handling of Vioxx . Merck had pulled the painkiller from...

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News Ex-McGreevey fundraiser sentenced to prison
Ex-McGreevey fundraiser sentenced to prison
Amit Patel
January 27, 2005 01:46:00 pm

David D'Amiano, a Democratic fund-raiser and acquaintance of former New Jersey Governor James McGreevey , was sentenced to two years in prison Thursday for his part in soliciting $40,000 in cash and political contributions in return for his...

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News Israel Attorney General rules state land must be sold to Arabs as well as Jews
Israel Attorney General rules state land must be sold to Arabs as well as Jews
Amit Patel
January 27, 2005 01:04:00 pm

Israel's Attorney General Menahem Mazuz has ruled that Israeli land parcels under the control of the Jewish National Fund and the Israel Lands Administration must be available for purchase by Arabs as well...

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News Corporations & securities brief ~ First Parmalat trial begins
Corporations & securities brief ~ First Parmalat trial begins
Amit Patel
January 27, 2005 12:33:00 pm

Leading Thursday's corporations and securities brief,The trial of two former Parmalat auditors, Maurizio Bianchi and Lorenzo Penca, who both worked for auditing firm Grant Thornton, began today in Milan, Italy. This is the first trial since the...

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News DOMA challenge to be heard in California
DOMA challenge to be heard in California
Amit Patel
January 27, 2005 09:13:00 am

The only remaining challenge to the federal Defense of Marriage Act is set to begin today in California. The lawsuit argues DOMA and California's Proposition 22 are violations of a gay couple's civil rights. California only...

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News Auschwitz liberation marked by world leaders
Auschwitz liberation marked by world leaders
Amit Patel
January 27, 2005 08:53:00 am

World leaders and Holocaust survivors gathered in Poland Thursday to mark the 60 year anniversary of the liberation of the Nazis' Auschwitz death camp . The heads of state of both Israel and Germany will join those of...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

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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