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News Nursing home owners sue government officials for Katrina deaths
Nursing home owners sue government officials for Katrina deaths
Brett Murphy
September 5, 2006 03:29:00 pm

Two owners of a Louisiana nursing home who were charged last year with negligent homicide for the deaths of 34 people in flooding caused by Hurricane Katrina have sued a number of...

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Bush federal appeals court nominations prompt criticism
Brett Murphy
August 31, 2006 09:33:00 am

President Bush announced on Wednesday the nominations of five people to serve as federal appeals court judges on the US Courts of Appeals for the Fourth, Fifth, and Ninth Circuits. The nomination of the five...

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Iran rejects UN call to cease nuclear program as deadline passes
Brett Murphy
August 31, 2006 09:12:00 am

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday once again said that Iran will not cease its uranium enrichment program, despite an August 31 deadline set by UN Security Council Resolution 1696 , stating...

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Australia court imposes first control order on released terror suspect
Brett Murphy
August 28, 2006 01:56:00 pm

An Australian court on Monday ordered terror suspect Joseph Terrence "Jihad Jack" Thomas to stay within the city of Melbourne and imposed an evening curfew in the first use of controversial "control orders" authorized under anti-terror legislation...

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Sudan military buildup in Darfur threatens new human rights crisis: AI
Brett Murphy
August 28, 2006 01:32:00 pm

An increase in Sudanese troops in the war-torn Darfur region of Sudan could lead to a new human rights crisis there, Amnesty International warned Monday as the UN Security Council prepared to...

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US relatives of convicted terror trainee barred from re-entering country
Brett Murphy
August 28, 2006 01:02:00 pm

Two relatives of Hamid Hayat , who was convicted earlier this year of attending a terrorist training camp, have been prevented from re-entering the United States after a trip to Pakistan unless they submit to questioning by...

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Guinea security forces using torture as instability increases: HRW
Brett Murphy
August 22, 2006 12:56:00 pm

Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a report Tuesday finding that security forces in Guinea are routinely torturing people to coerce confessions in an increasingly unstable domestic climate. According to...

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Federal appeals court overturns Missouri billboard law
Brett Murphy
August 22, 2006 12:18:00 pm

The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit has overturned a Missouri law banning sexually suggestive billboards on highways, saying that it was an unconstitutional infringement on commercial free speech. The court ruled...

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Brett Murphy
August 22, 2006 11:40:00 am

An Iraqi official said Tuesday that an independent panel established to investigate the alleged March 12 rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl and the murder of her family at the hands of US soldiers in...

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August 22, 2006 10:09:00 am

Eleven suspects charged in connection with the foiled terror plot to bomb airplanes crossing the Atlantic Ocean appeared in a UK court for the first time Tuesday. Eight defendants were remanded in...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

US and Japan sign Kanagwa Treaty

On March 31, 1854, US Commodore Matthew Perry and representatives of the Japanese government signed the Convention of Kanagawa. The terms of the treaty marked the end of Japan's 500 years of self-imposed isolation by opening the Ports of Shimoda and Hakodate. Four years later, Japanese-American relations were further expanded by the Treaty of Amity and Commerce (Harris Treaty), which opened more Japanese ports to US trade and set up a system of extraterritoriality for Americans in Japan.

Spanish royal decree ordered expulsion of Jews

On March 31, 1492, King Ferdinand of Spain signed a decree expelling Jews from his kingdom. Read a contemporary account of the expulsion, originally written in Hebrew by an Italian Jew in 1495.

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