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News Katrina victims file class action against FEMA
Katrina victims file class action against FEMA
Joshua Pantesco
November 12, 2005 03:16:00 pm

Attorneys acting on behalf of over a dozen Hurricane Katrina disaster victims have filed a complaint seeking class action status against the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and other government agencies. The...

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News Hague to Serbia: deliver war criminal Mladic before year-end or risk EU bid
Hague to Serbia: deliver war criminal Mladic before year-end or risk EU bid
Joshua Pantesco
November 12, 2005 02:42:00 pm

Serbian Defense Minister Zoran Stankovic said Friday on Serbian state television that Theodor Meron, president of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) , had threatened Serbia with "excommunicat from Euro-Atlantic integration" if...

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News Senate may revisit ban on court access for Guantanamo detainees
Senate may revisit ban on court access for Guantanamo detainees
Joshua Pantesco
November 12, 2005 02:00:00 pm

The US Senate may reconsider Thursday's 49-42 vote to deny Guantanamo prisoners habeas corpus access to federal courts to contest their detentions as early as next week, according to negotiators on the issue. Sen. Jeff...

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News Senate passes amendment to block Gitmo prisoners from court challenges
Senate passes amendment to block Gitmo prisoners from court challenges
Joshua Pantesco
November 10, 2005 07:35:00 pm

The US Senate voted 49-42 late Thursday to block Guantanamo Bay detainees from challenging their imprisonment in US federal courts. The legislation, proposed by GOP Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) , conflicts...

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News Supreme Court justices debate merits of courtroom cameras
Supreme Court justices debate merits of courtroom cameras
Joshua Pantesco
November 10, 2005 07:14:00 pm

US Supreme Court Justices Sandra Day O'Connor , Anthony Kennedy and Stephen Breyer Thursday briefly debated the possibility of media cameras in the chambers of the US Supreme Court during an ABA...

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News Ethiopia releases 2,400 election protestors from prison
Ethiopia releases 2,400 election protestors from prison
Joshua Pantesco
November 10, 2005 06:48:00 pm

The Ethiopian government on Thursday released 2,417 prisoners held without charge in connection with a violent confrontation with police that left 42 people dead last week. The riot occured during a protest against alleged ballot fraud said to have...

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News British government holds line on 90-day terror detentions
British government holds line on 90-day terror detentions
Joshua Pantesco
November 7, 2005 06:24:00 pm

British Home Secretary Charles Clarke announced late Monday after consultations with government Labour Party MPs that the government will in fact not back down on a provision of the proposed Terrorism Bill that would allow...

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Supreme Court hears personal injury case against Postal Service
Joshua Pantesco
November 7, 2005 06:11:00 pm

The US Supreme Court on Monday heard oral arguments in Dolan v. US Postal Service , where it will decide whether the US Third Circuit Court of Appeals construed...

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News Australian police use new anti-terror amendment to foil "large-scale" attack
Australian police use new anti-terror amendment to foil "large-scale" attack
Joshua Pantesco
November 7, 2005 06:00:00 pm

Australian police arrested 15 terror suspects early Tuesday local time in what Victoria state police chief Christine Nixon characterized as "the largest operation of counterterrorism that's ever been conducted in this country." Some 400 officers were involved. The 15...

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News ICC president says Hague has no jurisdiction over Hussein trial
ICC president says Hague has no jurisdiction over Hussein trial
Joshua Pantesco
November 7, 2005 05:55:00 pm

The president of the International Criminal Court (ICC) said Monday that ICC rules prevent the court from asserting any jurisdiction over claims against Saddam Hussein . Judge Philippe Kirsch , a Canadian, noted that...

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Mao Zedong widow sentenced to death in China

On January 25, 1981, Jiang Qing, the widow of Mao Zedong, was sentenced to death by a special court in China. The charges stemmed primarily from Jiang's role in the Cultural Revolution. Saying "I was Chairman Mao's dog. I bit whomever he asked me to bite," Qing unsuccessfully argued that she was merely acting at the direction of her late husband, who had died five years earlier. In 1983, Jiang's sentence was commuted to life in prison so that she would have "time to repent." Her official trial documents have still not been released.

Charles Manson and "family" convicted of Tate murders

On January 25, 1971, Charles Manson and three women of his "family" were convicted of murder and conspiracy for the 1969 slayings of seven people, including actress Sharon Tate. Learn more about the trial of Charles Manson from Professor Douglas Linder of the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law.

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