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News Georgia Republicans push through revised voter ID bill
Georgia Republicans push through revised voter ID bill
Christopher G. Anderson
January 25, 2006 03:48:00 pm

The Republican majority in the Georgia legislature has pushed through a revised voter ID bill which would require all voters to show either a driver's license, military ID or state-issued identification card with a photo prior...

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Iraqi court ‘dysfunctional’, Saddam lawyers say
Christopher G. Anderson
January 25, 2006 03:03:00 pm

Recent delays in the Saddam Hussein trial have created a "dysfunctional court" that is incapable of conducting a fair hearing, members of Saddam Hussein's legal team, including former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark ,...

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News EU welcomes dropping of Turkish charges against novelist
EU welcomes dropping of Turkish charges against novelist
Christopher G. Anderson
January 23, 2006 04:41:00 pm

A European Union spokesman said Monday that Turkey's action in dropping charges against novelist Orhan Pamuk for "insulting Turkishness" was "good news". EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn cautioned,...

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News Supreme Court won’t hear BlackBerry appeal
Supreme Court won’t hear BlackBerry appeal
Christopher G. Anderson
January 23, 2006 03:09:00 pm

The US Supreme Court on Monday refused to reconsider a federal court ruling that the BlackBerry , the hand-held internet and email device from Research in Motion (RIM) , violated existing patent rights. Last August,...

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News Nepal government restrictions on Kathmandu lifted
Nepal government restrictions on Kathmandu lifted
Christopher G. Anderson
January 23, 2006 02:54:00 pm

A ban on public gatherings, night-time curfews and other restrictions in Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal capital, has been lifted by government officials. Nepalese officials have also lifted a ban on mobile phone use and released...

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Egypt to release detained Sudanese refugees
Christopher G. Anderson
January 18, 2006 04:29:00 pm

Egyptian officials have said that 143 Sudanese refugees, detained by Cairo police after a three-month sit-in protest was forcibly broke up, will be released. As many 600 other Sudanese refugees, some of whom hail from the war torn region...

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News New Saddam chief judge has Baathist ties, official says
New Saddam chief judge has Baathist ties, official says
Christopher G. Anderson
January 18, 2006 03:48:00 pm

The new chief judge in the Saddam Hussein trial is a member of the banned Baath party and should be replaced, Ali Faisal, executive manager of Iraq's Debaathification Commission , said Wednesday. According...

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Bosnia police raid fails to find genocide suspects
Christopher G. Anderson
January 18, 2006 02:59:00 pm

Five hundred Bosnian police officers launched an ultimately unsuccessful operation on Wednesday near the town of Han Pijesak in an failed attempt to find and arrest either Radovan Karadzic or Ratko Mladic , both of whom...

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News Mexican high court rejects efforts to prosecute ex-president for genocide
Mexican high court rejects efforts to prosecute ex-president for genocide
Christopher G. Anderson
January 12, 2006 10:41:00 am

An attempt by a special prosecutor to try former Mexican president Luis Echeverria on genocide charges for the massacre of hundreds of students during a 1968 demonstration was rejected by Wednesday by the Mexican Supreme Court [official...

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Negotiations resume on new UN rights panel
Christopher G. Anderson
January 12, 2006 10:10:00 am

US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton and representatives from other UN member countries resumed negotiations Wednesday on the creation of a new UN rights watchdog to replace the Human Rights Commission . At the closed...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

First meeting of the US Supreme Court

On February 1, 1790, the Supreme Court of the United States convened for the first time. The meeting was held at the Merchants' Exchange Building in New York City, then the national capital. Chief Justice John Jay presided over the first Court with five Associate Justices: James Wilson, John Blair, James Iredell, William Cushing, and John Rutledge. However, due to the limitations of 18th-century transportation technology, the meeting was postponed by Jay until the following day. The first meeting was held primarily to organize the Supreme Court. The Justices did not hear their first actual case, Chrisholm v. Georgia, until 1792.

Sir Edward Coke born

Sir Edward Coke, Chief Justice of the King's Bench and author of law reports and commentaries (including, most famously, Coke on Littleton), was born on February 1, 1552. Learn more about Sir Edward Coke.

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