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News UN rights chief calls on ICC to press prosecution of Darfur war crimes
UN rights chief calls on ICC to press prosecution of Darfur war crimes
Greg Sampson
May 11, 2006 04:35:00 pm

UN Human Rights Commissioner Louise Arbour on Thursday called on the International Criminal Court (ICC) act more aggressively in prosecuting those suspected of war crimes in Sudan's Darfur region ...

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Pope condemns same-sex marriage as new Italian government weighs options
Greg Sampson
May 11, 2006 04:10:00 pm

Pope Benedict on Thursday explicitly condemned same-sex marriage or any legal recognition of same-sex couples as Italy's new center-left government prepared to take office as early as next Wednesday. His statement echoed a speech...

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News UK court grants right of return for Indian Ocean islanders removed for US naval base
UK court grants right of return for Indian Ocean islanders removed for US naval base
Greg Sampson
May 11, 2006 03:28:00 pm

The UK High Court on Thursday ruled that a group of Indian Ocean islanders known as the Chagossians must be allowed to return to the group of islands from which they were exiled...

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Federal courts say judiciary watchdog not needed
Greg Sampson
April 29, 2006 11:50:00 am

A spokesman for the Administrative Office of the US Courts said Friday that creating an inspector general for the federal judiciary to investigate possible ethical violations by federal judges "would be a serious incursion into judicial independence"...

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Starr leads conservative constitutional assault on Sarbanes-Oxley oversight board
Greg Sampson
April 29, 2006 11:29:00 am

In the latest legal assault on the Sarbanes-Oxley Act , conservative business organization the Free Enterprise Fund has asked former US solicitor general and Whitewater special prosecutor Kenneth Starr , former US assistant attorney general...

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Eight Serbian police charged with 1999 killing of 48 Kosovo Albanians
Greg Sampson
April 25, 2006 05:00:00 pm

Prosecutors in Serbia on Tuesday charged eight policemen for the killing of 48 Kosovar Albanians in the first weeks of the 1999 war in Kosovo . According to the indictment, the police officers are accused...

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US immigration rule changes announced ahead of threatened litigation
Greg Sampson
April 25, 2006 04:39:00 pm

A US Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) spokesman said Tuesday that the agency would introduce new rules to speed up the immigration process and prevent serious delays, apparently sidestepping a threat of mass lawsuits from Arab rights...

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Bush takes legal steps to address gasoline price rise
Greg Sampson
April 25, 2006 04:14:00 pm

As part of a larger response to record high gasoline prices, President George W. Bush on Tuesday announced that the US Environmental Protection Agency would suspend certain rules governing the refining of gasoline. By avoiding...

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Saudi prisoner denounces military commission at Guantanamo hearing
Greg Sampson
April 25, 2006 03:37:00 pm

Accused Saudi Al Qaeda operative Jabran Said bin al Qahtani, a prisoner at the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay , told a US military commission there Tuesday that the United States was an "enemy of God"...

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North Carolina execution carried out under brain-wave monitor check
Greg Sampson
April 22, 2006 11:06:00 am

State prison administrators carried out the execution of Willie Brown, Jr. on Friday morning at the Central Prison in Raleigh, North Carolina. During the execution procedure Brown had a brain-wave monitor attached to him to...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

President Johnson signed law against burning draft cards

On August 31, 1965, President Johnson signed a law making the burning of draft cards a federal offense subject to a five-year prison sentence and $1000 fine. In response to the law and in protest of the war in Vietnam, the student-run National Coordinating Committee to End the War in Vietnam staged the first public burning of a draft card in the United States on October 15, 1965. The constitutionality of the federal law was upheld in 1968 by the US Supreme Court in US v. O'Brien.

Gdansk Agreement reached

On August 31, 1980, the communist government of Poland and labor leaders settled the Gdansk Agreement. The accord settled a summer of labor strikes at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk, Poland. With the Agreement, Poland became the first communist country to allow the creation of an independent labor union, which was called Solidarity. Solidarity then became the driving force that ended communism in Poland. Learn more about the history of Solidarity.

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