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News Moussaoui judge refuses DOJ report release
Moussaoui judge refuses DOJ report release
Christina Gheen
April 30, 2005 11:42:00 am

US District Judge Leonie M. Brinkema Friday denied a US Department of Justice request to release a report on FBI missteps leading up to 9/11. The report chronicles three episodes considered to be missed opportunities to detect the 9/11...

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News First Vioxx wrongful-death suit to go to trial
First Vioxx wrongful-death suit to go to trial
Christina Gheen
April 30, 2005 10:04:00 am

An Alabama Circuit Court refused Friday to dismiss the first wrongful-death suit brought against Merck for their painkiller Vioxx. Merck pulled Vioxx from the market when a study found it to double the chances of heart attacks and strokes...

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Indicted US terror suspect running for UK parliament from prison
Christina Gheen
April 20, 2005 08:51:00 pm

Suspected terrorist Babar Ahmad announced Wednesday through his political party that he will run for election to the UK parliament on May 5 from his cell in Woodhill Prison in Buckinghamshire. Ahmad has been indicted...

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News Two Oil-for-Food investigators resign in protest over "lax" report
Two Oil-for-Food investigators resign in protest over "lax" report
Christina Gheen
April 20, 2005 08:08:00 pm

Robert Parton and Miranda Duncan, two investigators from a special panel appointed by the UN to investigate the United Nations Oil-For-Food program , resigned Wednesday in protest over a March report that they said was too lax...

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News Italian high court orders feeding tube to remain
Italian high court orders feeding tube to remain
Christina Gheen
April 20, 2005 07:31:00 pm

The Italian Supreme Court Wednesday confirmed a lower court ruling to keep tube-feeding Eluana Englaro, in a vegetative state since a 1992 car accident. The appeal was brought by Englaro's father,...

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Pakistan high court dismisses complaints against dual Musharraf role
Christina Gheen
April 13, 2005 09:03:00 pm

In a major setback for the country's political opposition, Pakistan's Supreme Court Wednesday dismissed petitions contending that the dual role of General Pervez Musharraf as Pakistan president and army chief of staff is contrary to the provisions...

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Energy bill approved by House panel
Christina Gheen
April 13, 2005 08:19:00 pm

The US House Ways and Means Committee approved a massive energy bill Wednesday. The Enhanced Energy Infrastructure and Technology Tax Act of 2005 includes industrial tax breaks, extends the use of ethanol for...

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Federal estate tax repeal approved in House
Christina Gheen
April 13, 2005 07:26:00 pm

The US House of Representatives voted 272-162 late Wednesday to permanently repeal federal estate taxes in 2010 and beyond. The federal government is estimated to lose $290 billion in tax revenue over a decade if the...

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Chilean court upholds Pinochet asset freeze
Christina Gheen
April 6, 2005 09:10:00 pm

A Chilean appeals court Wednesday upheld a $5 million asset freeze of former president Augusto Pinochet . A bid by Pinochet's lawyers to have the judge, Sergio Munoz, removed because of bias was also rejected. Pinochet is...

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US law firms see increasing profits
Christina Gheen
April 6, 2005 08:50:00 pm

According to a rankings released Wednesday, the top 50 US law firms achieved double-digit growth in turnover and profits in 2004. The rankings, performed by Legal Week magazine , show that these firms have pulled in $33 billion...

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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.". Listen to Roosevelt's "fireside chat" on the proposal from March 9, 1937, and review the text of his address. 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.

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 U.S. federal prison.

In 1999, the French government requested that Noriega be extradited to France, where he has been convicted of money laundering. In that same year, the government of Panama also requested extradition of Noriega, as a result of his 1995 conviction in abstentia on murder charges.

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