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News Nepal enacts ordinance restricting press freedoms
Nepal enacts ordinance restricting press freedoms
Greg Sampson
October 11, 2005 04:37:00 pm

Nepal's King Guyanendra has approved a new ordinance tightening oversight of the country's media. Among other provisions, the newly-enacted bill authorizes imprisonment and increased fines of individuals who publish "banned items," prohibits publication of stories that inspire...

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News UK Lords debate religious hatred bill amid protests
UK Lords debate religious hatred bill amid protests
Greg Sampson
October 11, 2005 04:06:00 pm

The UK House of Lords debated the proposed Racial and Religious Hatred Bill Tuesday as a coalition of demonstrators protested outside parliament. The bill, proposed last year, is would ban incitement to...

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News Vukovar massacre trial opens at UN war crimes tribunal
Vukovar massacre trial opens at UN war crimes tribunal
Greg Sampson
October 11, 2005 02:38:00 pm

Prosecutors at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) opened their case Tuesday in the trial against three former officers of the Yugoslavian army who allegedly permitted the massacre of more than 200...

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News US high court considers California death penalty case
US high court considers California death penalty case
Greg Sampson
October 11, 2005 02:26:00 pm

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday heard oral arguments on whether convicted murderer Ronald Sanders was wrongly sentenced to death by a California jury that improperly relied on invalid aggravating factors in deciding the...

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News Lawyer: wanted Croatian general will surrender if tried at home
Lawyer: wanted Croatian general will surrender if tried at home
Greg Sampson
October 4, 2005 04:59:00 pm

A defense lawyer for fugitive Gen. Ante Gotovina said in an interview Tuesday that his client would surrender to authorities if he is allowed to face trial in his home country of Croatia. Currently, Gotovina would face...

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News Rwanda agrees to hand over Belgian genocide suspect
Rwanda agrees to hand over Belgian genocide suspect
Greg Sampson
October 4, 2005 03:37:00 pm

The Belgian Foreign Ministry said Tuesday that Rwanda has agreed to hand over Guy Theunis, a Belgian Catholic priest accused of helping incite the 1994 Rwandan genocide , to the Belgian government. Last...

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News Britain asks UN to support deportation of suspected militants
Britain asks UN to support deportation of suspected militants
Greg Sampson
October 4, 2005 03:14:00 pm

UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke urged the UN on Tuesday to support Britain's efforts to deport suspected militants to countries believed to engage in torture. Clarke's made the call in response to statements UN Special...

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News Khodorkovsky to file second appeal of fraud, tax evasion conviction
Khodorkovsky to file second appeal of fraud, tax evasion conviction
Greg Sampson
October 4, 2005 02:28:00 pm

Former head of Russia oil giant Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky announced Tuesday that he would file a second appeal of his conviction on fraud and tax evasion charges. Last month, a Moscow appeals...

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News Egyptian detainee freed from Guantanamo Bay
Egyptian detainee freed from Guantanamo Bay
Greg Sampson
October 1, 2005 04:47:00 pm

The US Department of Defense announced Saturday the release of one Egyptian detainee from the prison at Guantanamo Bay after a military Combatant Status Review Tribunal determined he was no longer...

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News US releases second group of 500 Iraqi detainees from Abu Ghraib
US releases second group of 500 Iraqi detainees from Abu Ghraib
Greg Sampson
October 1, 2005 04:45:00 pm

The US military Saturday released a second group of 500 Iraqi detainees from Abu Ghraib prison following an earlier release of more than 500 detainees Monday , and a release of another 1.000 ...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Supreme Court ruled on Chinese Exclusion Act

On March 28, 1898, the US Supreme Court ruled that a child born in the US to Chinese immigrants was a US citizen and could not be deported under the terms of the Chinese Exclusion Act.

Read US v. Wong Kim Ark and learn more about the Chinese Exclusion Act.

Thomas Hare born

On March 28, 1808, English jurist Thomas Hare was born in the United Kingdom. After being admitted to the Bar in 1833, Hare became a campaigner for electoral reform. He created the Single Transferable Vote (STV) system of proportional representation used in many democratic countries today. He was also an early law reporter, recording important judicial decisions in The Hare Law Reports before there was any official reporting of legal opinions in the UK. Read a biography of Thomas Hare and a description of the STV system from the Electoral Reform Society.

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