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News New Guantanamo Bay legal compound planned
New Guantanamo Bay legal compound planned
Gabriel Haboubi
November 17, 2006 04:11:00 pm

The US military has preliminary plans to build a new legal compound at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba , where trials of detainees may begin to take place as early as June, the Miami Herald reported...

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News Germany worried about fortunes of EU constitution in French presidential race
Germany worried about fortunes of EU constitution in French presidential race
Gabriel Haboubi
November 17, 2006 03:20:00 pm

German officials have expressed some concern about the future of the proposed European Constitution in light of positions taken by two leading rivals for the French presidency. Newly-chosen French Socialist Party candidate Segolene Royal [BBC...

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News US soldier sentenced to life imprisonment in Mahmudiya rape-murder case
US soldier sentenced to life imprisonment in Mahmudiya rape-murder case
Gabriel Haboubi
November 16, 2006 08:57:00 pm

US Army Spc. James P. Barker, who pleaded guilty Wednesday for the rape and murder of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and the murder of her family in the Mahmudiya (also "Mahmoudiya") area in March,...

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News Guantanamo military commissions chief resigns
Guantanamo military commissions chief resigns
Gabriel Haboubi
November 16, 2006 08:05:00 pm

John Altenburg , appointed in 2003 by US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to oversee the military commissions trying terror detainees at Guantanamo Bay , has resigned...

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News Iraq Interior Ministry issues arrest warrant for top Sunni
Iraq Interior Ministry issues arrest warrant for top Sunni
Gabriel Haboubi
November 16, 2006 07:25:00 pm

Iraqi Interior Minister Jawad al-Bolani announced on Al-Iraqiya state television Thursday that an arrest warrant has been issued for Harith al-Dhari , the most prominent leader of Iraq's Sunni minority, and head of the...

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News Burundi president admits ‘isolated’ instances of military and police abuse
Burundi president admits ‘isolated’ instances of military and police abuse
Gabriel Haboubi
November 9, 2006 09:27:00 pm

The president of Burundi admitted Thursday that instances of torture and brutality by police and members of the military do sometimes occur in the country, but told reporters in Paris that the perpetrators of those ‘isolated’...

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News US Army lieutenant to be court-martialed for protesting Iraq war
US Army lieutenant to be court-martialed for protesting Iraq war
Gabriel Haboubi
November 9, 2006 08:00:00 pm

The US Army announced Thursday that it will push forward with a court martial of 1st Lt. Ehren Watada , an Army officer who refused deployment to Iraq and openly protested the war...

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News Gay marriage ban rejected in Arizona, approved in 7 other states
Gay marriage ban rejected in Arizona, approved in 7 other states
Gabriel Haboubi
November 8, 2006 12:59:00 pm

Arizona became the first US state to reject an amendment defining marriage as a union between one man and one woman after voters Tuesday narrowly rejected Proposition 107 , which would have amended the Arizona Constitution ...

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News US Army halts Iraq redeployment of Abu Ghraib dog handler convicted of abuse
US Army halts Iraq redeployment of Abu Ghraib dog handler convicted of abuse
Gabriel Haboubi
November 3, 2006 04:03:00 pm

The US Army said Friday that commanders on the ground have prevented Army Sgt. Santos A. Cardona , found guilty in June of abusing detainees at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison ,...

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News UK bank settles Enron suit for $144 million
UK bank settles Enron suit for $144 million
Gabriel Haboubi
November 3, 2006 02:46:00 pm

British-based bank Barclays PLC announced Friday that it has reached an agreement with Enron to settle litigation in the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Julius Caesar assassinated on Ides of March

Roman dictator Julius Caesar was assassinated at the Roman Forum by a number of his own senators led by Marcus Brutus on March 15, 44 BC over concerns that he was becoming too powerful. The assassination wound up being a political failure as the Roman citizenry ended up becoming incensed at the conspirators and a civil war broke out, which Brutus and his supporters lost to Mark Antony and Octavian (later Augustus). William Shakespeare later wrote in his eponymous play about the assassination, "Beware the ides of March." Learn more about the assassination of Julius Caesar.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg born

US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was born on March 15, 1933.

Learn more about Justice Ginsburg from Oyez, the Supreme Court multimedia project at Northwestern University.

Code Napoleon promulgated

On March 15, 1803, the Code Napoleon (French Civil Code) was promulgated in France. The Code is considered the first successful legal code in Europe and is still used today as the basis for the modern French Civil Code. Napoleon's conquests spread his Code across the European Continent, influencing modern legal codes in Portugal, Austria, Italy, and other nations. Read a history of the Code Napoleon.

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