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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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News ICTY transfers Kosovo war criminal to France prison
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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    Thomas Becket, former Chancellor of England, murdered by Henry II's knights

    On December 29, 1170, Archbishop Thomas Becket, former Chancellor of England, was murdered in Canterbury Cathedral by knights acting in the name of Henry II.

    Becket and Henry had been entangled in a power struggle over, among other things, criminal jurisdiction over clergy. Read a contemporary account of the murder of Thomas Becket.

    Texas attains US statehood

    On December 29, 1845, Texas became the twenty-eighth state to join the United States of America when US President James K. Polk signed the Ordinance of Annexation. Texas had a complicated path to statehood because it had formerly been part of Mexico and then an independent republic. The US Congress passed the Annexation of the Republic of Texas Joint Resolution on March 1, 1845. Voters in Texas then approved the Ordinance of Annexation in October, before it was approved by the US Congress and signed into law by President Polk on this day in 1845. The US Supreme Court later ruled in Texas v. White that, despite its unique path to statehood, Texas did not have the right to secede from the union.

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