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News DOJ seeks to avoid clearing Ken Lay criminal record
DOJ seeks to avoid clearing Ken Lay criminal record
Jaime Jansen
September 7, 2006 10:07:00 am

The US Justice Department filed a motion Wednesday requesting US District Judge Simeon T. Lake III defer a ruling on vacating the criminal record of former Enron CEO Kenneth Lay [Houston Chronicle...

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News Newmont Mining executive testifies in Indonesia criminal pollution trial
Newmont Mining executive testifies in Indonesia criminal pollution trial
Jaime Jansen
September 1, 2006 12:43:00 pm

The regional chief executive of Newmont Mining Corporation , an American gold-mining company with a subsidiary in Indonesia, testified Friday in his criminal pollution trial. Richard Ness , who is accused of placing arsenic and mercury into...

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News Peru judge indicts opposition leader for human rights abuses
Peru judge indicts opposition leader for human rights abuses
Jaime Jansen
September 1, 2006 12:15:00 pm

A Peruvian judge on Thursday indicted Ollanta Humala , the opposition leader who narrowly lost the June Peruvian presidential election to present incumbent Alan Garcia...

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News Russia implements tough illegal filesharing law
Russia implements tough illegal filesharing law
Jaime Jansen
September 1, 2006 11:46:00 am

A tough amendment to Russia's copyright protection law designed to crack down on the Internet piracy of text, music and videos took effect Friday as part of Russia's bid to join the World Trade Organization [official...

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News Ohio rights groups sue to preserve 2004 election paper ballots
Ohio rights groups sue to preserve 2004 election paper ballots
Jaime Jansen
September 1, 2006 11:15:00 am

Several voting rights groups filed a federal lawsuit in the Southern District of Ohio Thursday demanding that Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell preserve the paper ballots from the 2004 presidential election , just...

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News Federal judge rejects $50 million Vioxx award as ‘grossly excessive’
Federal judge rejects $50 million Vioxx award as ‘grossly excessive’
Jaime Jansen
August 30, 2006 02:04:00 pm

US District Judge Eldon E. Fallon of the Eastern District of Louisiana on Wednesday threw out a jury verdict holding Merck liable for $50 million in compensatory damages to a retired FBI agent...

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News Bolivia constitutional convention stalls on key vote over powers
Bolivia constitutional convention stalls on key vote over powers
Jaime Jansen
August 30, 2006 01:42:00 pm

A Bolivian constitutional convention championed by President Evo Morales has delayed voting on a motion that would allow the assembly to create a constitutional framework without having to answer...

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News Pinochet judge removed from tax evasion case for alleged bias
Pinochet judge removed from tax evasion case for alleged bias
Jaime Jansen
August 30, 2006 01:40:00 pm

The Santiago Court of Appeals has temporarily removed Judge Carlos Cerda from presiding over a probe into the finances of former Chile dictator Augusto Pinochet , after hearing arguments that...

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News South Dakota governor blocks execution pending new lethal injection law
South Dakota governor blocks execution pending new lethal injection law
Jaime Jansen
August 30, 2006 10:26:00 am

South Dakota Governor Mike Rounds on Tuesday ordered a last minute reprieve for death row inmate Elijah Page , calling the 1984 state lethal injection law outdated and expressing concern that state...

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News Iran court sentences outspoken editor for publishing articles ‘against constitution’
Iran court sentences outspoken editor for publishing articles ‘against constitution’
Jaime Jansen
August 28, 2006 04:13:00 pm

An Iranian court has sentenced the managing editor of the monthly Aftab, Isa Saharkhiz , to four years in jail and barred him from working in the press for five years after he was convicted of publishing...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Last Quaker executed for religious beliefs in American colonies

On March 24, 1661, William Ledda, executed in Boston, became the last Quaker in the American colonies to be put to death for his religious beliefs. Learn more about the persecution of the Quakers in colonial Massachusetts.

Archbishop Óscar Romero assassinated

On March 24, 1980, Archbishop Óscar Romero was assassinated while celebrating Mass in San Salvador, El Salvador by a right-wing death squad. Romero had become unpopular with conservative elements in the country when he began speaking out against government repression of the nation's poor and of his fellow priests. Read a biography of Archbishop Óscar Romero from the Kellogg Institute at Notre Dame University. In 2003, the Center for Justice and Accountability (CJA), an American human-rights organization, filed a lawsuit in the United States against former Salvadorean Air Force Captain Álvaro Rafael Saravia for his alleged role in the assassination of Archbishop Romero. The suit was filed in a US federal district court under the Alien Tort Claim Act (28 U.S.C. § 1350). In Doe v. Rafael Saravia, the defendant was found guilty of crimes against humanity and extrajudicial killing, resulting in a $10 million judgment against Saravia. Read a description of the case. Romero was later canonized as a saint by the Catholic Church in 2018.

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