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News Federal court rules Countrywide shareholder suit can go forward
Federal court rules Countrywide shareholder suit can go forward
David Hanna
May 16, 2008 03:44:00 pm

A federal judge ruled this week that a shareholder derivative lawsuit brought against the directors and officers of mortgage lender Countrywide Financial for misrepresenting its financial condition could proceed. The court held that the plaintiffs,...

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Federal appeals court enjoins Forest Service logging plan
David Hanna
May 16, 2008 12:08:00 pm

The US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a lower court order denying an injunction against a US Forest Service plan to allow commercial logging in the Plumas National Forest ...

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ICTY transfers Kosovo war criminal to France prison
David Hanna
May 16, 2008 10:20:00 am

Convicted Kosovo Albanian war criminal Haradin Bala has been transferred to a prison in France to serve out the rest of his 13-year sentence , the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) [official...

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News Nintendo loses $21 million patent infringement suit
Nintendo loses $21 million patent infringement suit
David Hanna
May 15, 2008 12:37:00 pm

Entertainment console and video game manufacturer Nintendo of America, Inc. was ordered to pay $21 million Wednesday to Anascape, Ltd., a small Texas video game company after losing a jury verdict in a patent infringement lawsuit concerning...

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Ecuador election court clears former president to run for office
David Hanna
May 14, 2008 10:23:00 am

Ecuador's election court announced Wednesday that a two-year suspension from politics for former Ecuadorian President Lucio Gutierrez, had formally come to an end Sunday, leaving him free to run for...

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    Slave trade abolished in Britain

    A British bill abolishing the slave trade became law on March 25, 1807.

    Learn more about slavery and the slave trade in Britain.

    Scottsboro Boys arrested

    On March 25, 1931, nine black teenagers were arrested in Paint Rock, Alabama for allegedly raping two white women. Twelve days later, the young men were put on trial in the nearby town of Scottsboro. After numerous the proceedings culminated in two landmark decisions by the US Supreme Court, Powell v. Alabama and Norris v. Alabama. Ultimately, the death sentences issued by the jury were overturned, but the defendants were nonetheless sent to prison. The trials of the Scottsboro Boys have come to symbolize the role of race in the criminal justice system of the Jim Crow South. Read a history of the trials of the Scottsboro Boys, as composed by Law Professor Douglas O. Linder of the University of Missouri - Kansas City School of Law.

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