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News Sri Lanka to investigate child soldier allegations
Sri Lanka to investigate child soldier allegations
Holly Manges Jones
November 14, 2006 09:11:00 am

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse has agreed to investigate allegations that government forces and the rebel group Karuna has been using children in its fights against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)...

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News Dallas suburb passes tough anti-immigration laws
Dallas suburb passes tough anti-immigration laws
Holly Manges Jones
November 14, 2006 08:33:00 am

City council members in Farmers Branch, Texas voted Monday to approve several anti-immigration measures including making English the town's official language , imposing fines for landlords who rent to illegal aliens [Ordinance No. 2892...

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News US denies Padilla torture allegations
US denies Padilla torture allegations
Holly Manges Jones
November 14, 2006 08:01:00 am

Prosecutors for the US government Monday denied allegations by Jose Padilla that he was tortured while in US custody at a Navy detention facility in South Carolina. Padilla claims that he was subjected to...

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News Martha Stewart expected to settle ImClone stock lawsuit for $30 million
Martha Stewart expected to settle ImClone stock lawsuit for $30 million
Holly Manges Jones
November 9, 2006 08:17:00 am

Martha Stewart , her company and its insurers are expecting to pay $30 million to settle a class action lawsuit regarding Stewart's 2001 sale of ImClone Systems stocks one day before an FDA announcement resulted...

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News Thai PM to announce decision on lifting martial law next week
Thai PM to announce decision on lifting martial law next week
Holly Manges Jones
November 9, 2006 07:53:00 am

Thai Defense Minister Boonrawd Somtas said Thursday that newly installed Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont will likely lift martial law before he leaves for an international summit in Vietnam on November 18. Thailand [JURIST...

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News China convicts nearly 99 percent of criminal defendants: state media
China convicts nearly 99 percent of criminal defendants: state media
Holly Manges Jones
November 9, 2006 07:16:00 am

China has convicted almost all criminal defendants who have come before the courts over the last nine years, the People's Court Daily reported Thursday. From January 1998 through September 2006, 6.2 million...

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News Marijuana legalization measures fail in Colorado, Nevada, South Dakota
Marijuana legalization measures fail in Colorado, Nevada, South Dakota
Holly Manges Jones
November 8, 2006 01:37:00 pm

US proponents of marijuana legalization took stock Wednesday after voters in Colorado, Nevada and South Dakota rejected mid-term ballot measures that would have decriminalized use of the drug in certain circumstances. In Colorado, voters on Tuesday rejected Amendment 44...

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News UK lawyer refuses to remove Muslim veil in court
UK lawyer refuses to remove Muslim veil in court
Holly Manges Jones
November 8, 2006 11:33:00 am

A British immigration judge Wednesday adjourned a hearing after a lawyer in his courtroom refused to remove her Muslim niqab despite being ordered to by the judge because he claimed he could not hear her speak. Shabnam...

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News Chinese judges arrested as crackdown on corruption continues
Chinese judges arrested as crackdown on corruption continues
Holly Manges Jones
November 8, 2006 10:49:00 am

Five senior judges from Shenzhen, China have been arrested and 20 other judges implicated in a crackdown on corruption during the months of June to October, the China Daily reported Wednesday. The raids begun after prosecutors...

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News Federal court agrees to review challenge to domestic spying lawsuit
Federal court agrees to review challenge to domestic spying lawsuit
Holly Manges Jones
November 8, 2006 10:14:00 am

The US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that it would review a lower court decision allowing a class action lawsuit filed against the Bush administration's domestic...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

US Supreme Court ruled Indians not US citizens

On November 3, 1884, the US Supreme Court ruled in Elk v. Wilkins that John Elk, an American Indian who had tried to vote in a federal election in Omaha, Nebraska, was not a US citizen entitled to the protection of the 14th and 15th Amendments of the US Constitution. Native Americans became eligible for citizenship in 1887 under the Dawes Act, but only in 1924, under the Indian Citizenship Act, were all Native Americans born in the US made citizens.

Last public execution at Tyburn Gallows in London

On November 3, 1783, the last public execution took place at Tyburn Gallows in London, when John Austin was hanged for highway robbery. From the hanging of William Fitz Osburn in 1196 until Austin's execution, Tyburn served as London's primary location for public executions.

Learn more about the trial of John Austin.

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