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News Haiti judge orders release of 8 US missionaries charged with kidnapping
Haiti judge orders release of 8 US missionaries charged with kidnapping
Bhargav Katikanen
February 18, 2010 08:15:00 am

A Haitian judge on Wednesday ordered the release of eight of the 10 US missionaries held in a Haitian jail on kidnapping charges in the wake of the January 12 earthquake . Eight of the...

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News Myanmar frees opposition vice-chairman from 6-year house arrest
Myanmar frees opposition vice-chairman from 6-year house arrest
Bhargav Katikanen
February 13, 2010 11:24:00 am

The government of Myanmar released 82-year old democracy activist U Tin Oo from six years of house arrest on Friday, just days before UN special envoy Tomas Ojea Quintana is to visit the...

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News Supreme Court seeks guidance on Uighur case after Swiss transfer announcement
Supreme Court seeks guidance on Uighur case after Swiss transfer announcement
Bhargav Katikanen
February 13, 2010 10:32:00 am

The US Supreme Court Friday ordered the Obama administration and lawyers for Chinese Uighurs detained at Guantanamo Bay to file briefs explaining how Switzerland's decision to accept two Uighurs as refugees...

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News EU blocks agreement to share financial information with US
EU blocks agreement to share financial information with US
Bhargav Katikanen
February 11, 2010 10:14:00 am

The European Parliament voted 378-196 Thursday to nullify an interim agreement between European Union (EU) member states and the US that gave American counter-terrorism officials access to the financial information of European citizens. The agreement...

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News China appeals court upholds 11-year sentence for pro-democracy activist
China appeals court upholds 11-year sentence for pro-democracy activist
Bhargav Katikanen
February 11, 2010 08:29:00 am

A Chinese appeals court on Thursday upheld the 11-year prison sentence for democracy activist Liu Xiaobo , despite calls for his release from US and European Union (EU) officials. Liu was tried in...

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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 Iraq government denounces ruling allowing alleged Baathists to run for office
Iraq government denounces ruling allowing alleged Baathists to run for office
Bhargav Katikanen
February 4, 2010 10:22:00 am

Spokesperson for Iraq's Shi'ite government Ali Al-Dabbagh said Thursday that a decision by an appeals court to allow candidates with suspected ties to the outlawed Baath party to run for office is illegal...

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Holder defends decision to try attempted plane bombing suspect in federal court
Bhargav Katikanen
February 4, 2010 09:07:00 am

US Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday defended his decision to charge suspected terrorist Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab , the so-called Christmas Day bomber, in US federal court. Holder, who has resisted calls from...

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News France PM asks high court for help in drafting burqa ban
France PM asks high court for help in drafting burqa ban
Bhargav Katikanen
January 30, 2010 11:55:00 am

French Prime Minister Francois Fillon has asked the country's highest court, the State Council , for input on implementing a proposed law that would ban public wearing of the burqa,...

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Vivendi found liable for securities fraud
Bhargav Katikanen
January 30, 2010 10:32:00 am

A jury in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York Friday found giant French entertainment corporation Vivendi SA liable on 57 counts of violating US federal securities laws....

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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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