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News Guatemala high court drops charges in 1982 massacre case
Guatemala high court drops charges in 1982 massacre case
Gretchen E. Moore
February 4, 2005 07:42:00 pm

Guatemala's Constitutional Court Friday ordered charges dropped against soldiers accused of participating in a 1982 massacre of more than 300 civilians, citing the countrys's National Reconciliation Law . The law is a type of amnesty the...

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British soldiers target commanding officer in Iraqi abuse trial
Gretchen E. Moore
January 21, 2005 08:03:00 pm

At a court martial that resumed Friday at a British military base in Osnabrueck Germany after the defense requested a temporary halt , a lawyer for one of three British soldiers charged with abusing Iraqi detainees accused their...

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News JP Morgan offers reparations for pre-Civil War slave collateral
JP Morgan offers reparations for pre-Civil War slave collateral
Gretchen E. Moore
January 21, 2005 07:39:00 pm

The second largest bank in the nation, JP Morgan Chase & Co. , has publicly disclosed that two of its predecessor banks had received thousands of slaves as collateral prior to the Civil War. JP Morgan offered a...

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News UPDATE ~ US soldier found guilty of murdering Iraqi teen
UPDATE ~ US soldier found guilty of murdering Iraqi teen
Gretchen E. Moore
January 14, 2005 07:52:00 pm

Following up a JURIST report from earlier today, US Central Command has now announced that Staff Sgt. Jonathan J. Alban-Cardenas has been convicted of one count of murder and one count of conspiracy to commit murder...

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VA Supreme Court invalidates "singles sex law"
Gretchen E. Moore
January 14, 2005 07:52:00 pm

In a unanimous ruling Friday, the Virginia Supreme Court struck down a state law prohibiting consensual sex between unmarried people. Read the opinion . The justices based their decision on Lawrence v. Texas , the 2003 US...

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News BREAKING NEWS ~ Ukraine high court rejects all legal appeals against election by PM Yanukovych
BREAKING NEWS ~ Ukraine high court rejects all legal appeals against election by PM Yanukovych
Gretchen E. Moore
December 30, 2004 10:32:00 am

AP is reporting that Ukraine's Supreme Court has rejected all appeals by Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych against Sunday's presidential revote, won by opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko. CTV News has more....

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Taiwan high court rejects second challenge to presidential election
Gretchen E. Moore
December 30, 2004 09:52:00 am

Taiwan's High Court Thursday rejected a second lawsuit filed by the opposition Nationalist Party to nullify the March 20 presidential poll and upheld President Chen Shui-bian's narrow re-election victory. The first lawsuit was dismissed in November after an extensive...

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News New trial nixed in Schiavo right-to-die case
New trial nixed in Schiavo right-to-die case
Gretchen E. Moore
December 30, 2004 09:34:00 am

The Florida 2nd District Court of Appeal Wednesday denied a request from the parents of Terri Schiavo for a new trial in her long-running right-to-die case. Once the court issues a formal decision within two weeks, Schiavo's husband will...

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News Arkansas judge rules ban on gay foster parents unconstitutional
Arkansas judge rules ban on gay foster parents unconstitutional
Gretchen E. Moore
December 30, 2004 09:09:00 am

Arkansas Circuit Judge Timothy Fox Wednesday declared that a state ban on placing foster children in a household with a gay member was unconstitutional. The Arkansas chapter of the ACLU brought the case, challenging a 1999 regulation that stated...

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News Navy SEALs sue AP over Iraq prisoner photos
Navy SEALs sue AP over Iraq prisoner photos
Gretchen E. Moore
December 29, 2004 10:41:00 am

Six members of a Navy SEALs unit and two Navy wives sued the Associated Press Tuesday, stating that the news agency endangered the servicemen's lives and invaded their privacy by publishing private photos showing the men interacting with Iraqi...

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President Lincoln offered amnesty to Confederates

On December 8, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation offering amnesty to all citizens of the Confederacy who swore an oath to uphold the US Constitution. Because of confusion over who was to administer the oath, Lincoln issued another proclamation on March 26, 1864, empowering "any commissioned officer, civil, military, or naval in the service of the United States", as well as those persons in the territories which were "not in insurrection who were by the laws therefore qualified for administering oaths." Both Proclamations specified that military prisoners and others held for crimes against the United States were ineligible for amnesty, although Confederate deserters could volunteer to take the oath.

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