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News Pakistan coalition leaders strike deal on restoring judges; Chaudhry to retire ‘early’
Pakistan coalition leaders strike deal on restoring judges; Chaudhry to retire ‘early’
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
May 1, 2008 10:57:00 am

The leaders of Pakistan's coalition government reached agreement in Dubai on Thursday on the details of a deal on restoring superior court judges removed in November under President Pervez Musharraf's declaration of emergency , according to local media...

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News DOJ says terror threat could excuse abusive interrogation
DOJ says terror threat could excuse abusive interrogation
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
April 27, 2008 07:33:00 pm

The US Justice Department told a member of the US Senate Intelligence Committee that abusive or humiliating interrogations of terror suspects ostensibly prohibited by the common article 3 of the Geneva Conventions on "outrages upon personal dignity"...

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News Pakistan lawyers clash in Karachi over Niazi beating
Pakistan lawyers clash in Karachi over Niazi beating
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
April 9, 2008 07:40:00 pm

Opposing groups of Pakistani lawyers clashed with each other in the city of Karachi Wednesday, prompting widespread rioting that led to at least seven deaths. Lawyers supporting Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf who gathered to protest the Tuesday lawyers' beating...

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News Federal media shield law letter [US DOJ]
Federal media shield law letter [US DOJ]
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
April 4, 2008 10:28:00 am

Letter on the Free Flow of Information Act of 2007, US Attorney General Michael Mukasey and Director of National Intelligence J.M. McConnell, April 2, 2008 ....

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News PKK EU terrorism list ruling [European Court of First Instance]
PKK EU terrorism list ruling [European Court of First Instance]
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
April 3, 2008 11:55:00 pm

PKK v Council, European Court of First Instance, April 3, 2008 [ruled that the Council of the European Union improperly listed the militant Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK) on its list of terrorist organizations in 2002 because it failed to state...

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News Haradinaj war crimes acquittal [ICTY]
Haradinaj war crimes acquittal [ICTY]
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
April 3, 2008 11:24:00 pm

Prosecutor v. Ramush Haradinaj et al., International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, Trial Chamber, April 3, 2008 . Read the full text...

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News Kansas funeral picketing law [KS]
Kansas funeral picketing law [KS]
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
April 3, 2008 11:16:00 pm

Kansas funeral privacy act, signed into law by Governor Kathleen Sebelius, April 3, 2008 . Read the full text of law . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase...

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News 2003 Yoo military interrogation memo [US DOJ]
2003 Yoo military interrogation memo [US DOJ]
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
April 2, 2008 06:10:00 pm

Re; Military Interrogation of Alien Unlawful Combatants Held Outside the United States, Memorandum for William Haynes II, US Department of Justice, March 14, 2003 [memo by deputy assistant attorney general John Yoo finding that military interrogators could employ a wide...

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News Same-sex partner pension inheritance ruling [ECJ]
Same-sex partner pension inheritance ruling [ECJ]
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
April 1, 2008 09:16:00 pm

Tadao Maruko v Versorgungsanstalt der deutschen Bühnen, European Court of Justice, April 1, 2008 . Read the full text of...

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