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News Federal court hears new Voting Rights Act challenge
Federal court hears new Voting Rights Act challenge
Daniel Richey
February 3, 2011 01:27:44 pm

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia heard arguments Wednesday on a new challenge to the Voting Rights Act of Act of 1965 (VRA) . Arguing before Judge John Bates, officials representing...

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Virginia AG to ask Supreme Court for immediate review of health care ruling
Daniel Richey
February 3, 2011 10:43:48 am

Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II announced Thursday that he will file a petition for certiorari before judgment with the US Supreme Court , asking the court to hear an...

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News Malawi passes law permitting government to ban media outlets
Malawi passes law permitting government to ban media outlets
Daniel Richey
January 27, 2011 10:54:52 am

Malawian president Bingu wa Mutharika has signed into law a bill permitting the government to ban media outlets that its information ministry declares contrary to public interest. The new law, which amends the 2009 penal code amendment...

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News Federal judge rules Blackwater shooting suit can proceed in state court
Federal judge rules Blackwater shooting suit can proceed in state court
Daniel Richey
January 27, 2011 09:12:29 am

A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina ruled Wednesday that a lawsuit against Blackwater , now known as Xe Services , can proceed in state court. The...

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News Key defendant in Galleon insider trading trial pleads guilty
Key defendant in Galleon insider trading trial pleads guilty
Daniel Richey
January 20, 2011 12:18:17 pm

A key defendant in the Galleon Group insider trading case pleaded guilty Wednesday to three counts of conspiracy to commit securities fraud before judge Richard Holwell of the US District Court for the Southern District of New...

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Accused Arizona gunman indicted
Daniel Richey
January 20, 2011 10:56:08 am

Accused Arizona gunman Jared Lee Loughner was indicted Wednesday by a federal grand jury in Tuscon, Arizona. He is charged with attempting to assassinate a member of Congress [18 USC...

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Federal judge appointed to hear Arizona shooting case
Daniel Richey
January 13, 2011 12:26:32 pm

A California federal judge was appointed Thursday to hear the trial of Arizona shooting suspect Jared Loughner. Judge Alex Kozinski of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit appointed Judge...

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News Mogul Conrad Black returns to court for status hearing
Mogul Conrad Black returns to court for status hearing
Daniel Richey
January 13, 2011 10:59:37 am

Media magnate Conrad Black returned to the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois Thursday for a status hearing before judge Amy St. Eve . St. Eve will begin...

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News Iran opposition leader offers to stand trial for 2009 election unrest
Iran opposition leader offers to stand trial for 2009 election unrest
Daniel Richey
January 3, 2011 01:05:08 pm

Iranian opposition leader Mahdi Karroubi on Monday publicly invited the government to put him on trial for the civil unrest and violence that erupted in the wake of the hotly disputed 2009 re-election...

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Russia former deputy PM sentenced to 15 days in jail over New Year’s rally
Daniel Richey
January 3, 2011 11:23:37 am

Liberal Russian political activist and former deputy prime minister Boris Nemtsov was sentenced Sunday to 15 days in jail for his part in an unauthorized protest march in Moscow on December 31. Nemtsov,...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Convention on Psychotropic Substances signed

On February 21, 1971, the United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances was signed in Vienna, Austria. The Convention was promulgated to regulate psychotropic drugs, extending the 1961 UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, which applied to cannabis-, cocoa-, and opium-based drugs. In 1988, the UN Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances was promulgated to address international drug manufacture, possession, and distribution, primarily in organized crime. 175 nations are now parties to the Convention. Member nations have implemented the Convention in the form of domestic laws such as the US Psychotropic Substances Act, the UK Misuse of Drugs Act, and the Canadian Controlled Drugs and Substances Act.

Former Nixon AG Mitchell sentenced to prison for Watergate

On February 21, 1975, former US Attorney General John Mitchell, Nixon Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman and domestic adviser John Ehrlichman were sentenced to prison terms of 2 1/2 to 8 years for obstructing justice in the Watergate affair.

Learn more about John Mitchell from the Washington Post.

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