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News Defense rests in Abu Ghraib case without Graner testimony
Defense rests in Abu Ghraib case without Graner testimony
Jeannie Shawl
January 13, 2005 03:24:00 pm

The defense for US Army Spc. Charles Graner rested its case Thursday afternoon without Graner testifying on his own behalf during his court-martial at Fort Hood . Graner had been expected to testify ...

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News Legal agenda and live webcasts ~ Thursday, January 13
Legal agenda and live webcasts ~ Thursday, January 13
Jeannie Shawl
January 13, 2005 07:05:00 am

Here's a run-down of law-related events, expected developments and live webcasts on JURIST's docket for Thursday, January 13.Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Stephen Breyer will discuss the relevance of foreign law for American constitutional adjudication at a forum...

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News Former Yukos CEO attacks Russian legal system
Former Yukos CEO attacks Russian legal system
Jeannie Shawl
January 12, 2005 04:02:00 pm

Addressing a Russian court Wednesday, former Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky called the tax fraud against him and the oil company "inventions" and said that Russian investigators had removed "uncomfortable" documentation in the case. During his...

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News FL appeals court asked to rehear Schiavo right-to-die case
FL appeals court asked to rehear Schiavo right-to-die case
Jeannie Shawl
January 12, 2005 03:35:00 pm

Lawyers for the parents of Terry Schiavo , the brain damaged woman at the center of a long running right-to-die dispute, asked a Florida appeals court Wednesday to reconsider its decision not to grant a new trial in...

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News Federal judge finds that Pricewaterhouse withheld evidence in fraud suit
Federal judge finds that Pricewaterhouse withheld evidence in fraud suit
Jeannie Shawl
January 12, 2005 03:06:00 pm

US Magistrate Judge Patricia A. Hemann has recommended that a federal district judge enter a default judgment against PricewaterhouseCoopers for the company's failure to turn over documents and other evidence in an accounting fraud suit brought by...

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News Massachusetts GOP pre-emptively registers web domains of possible Dem candidate
Massachusetts GOP pre-emptively registers web domains of possible Dem candidate
Jeannie Shawl
January 12, 2005 02:31:00 pm

In anticipation of a run for governor by Massachusetts Attorney General Tom Reilly , the Massachusetts Republican Party has pre-emptively registered website addresses that Reilly could have used as a campaign website. Despite the fact that...

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News Thatcher to plead guilty in Equatorial Guinea coup plot
Thatcher to plead guilty in Equatorial Guinea coup plot
Jeannie Shawl
January 12, 2005 02:14:00 pm

Mark Thatcher , son of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, will plead guilty to charges over his involvement in an Equatorial Guinea coup plot, according to BBC reports. Thatcher was arrested by South African officials in August...

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News Spanish PM slams Basque autonomy plan
Spanish PM slams Basque autonomy plan
Jeannie Shawl
January 3, 2005 10:24:00 am

Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said Monday that an autonomy plan passed by Basque lawmakers last week is doomed for failure and called the proposal secessionist, unconstitutional and an anomaly in a Europe moving to become more...

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News Tsunami victims fall prey to crime in Asia, Europe
Tsunami victims fall prey to crime in Asia, Europe
Jeannie Shawl
January 3, 2005 09:46:00 am

Survivors and families of victims of last week's tsunami disaster in South Asia are falling prey to thieves, rapists, kidnappers and hoaxers. Sri Lanka's Women and Media Collective said Monday that they "have received reports of incidents of rape,...

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News Scottish conservatives call for public debate on smoking ban
Scottish conservatives call for public debate on smoking ban
Jeannie Shawl
January 3, 2005 09:31:00 am

Scotland's Tory leader David McLetchie is calling for public debate over Scotland's proposed ban on smoking in public places, saying the ban is tougher than that proposed in a UK white paper, published in November (JURIST's Paper Chase has...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Gorbachev becomes USSR leader

On March 11, 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev became the leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, following the death of Konstantin Chernenko. He soon announced that he would hold arms-reduction negotiations in Geneva with the United States. Gorbachev also used his tenure to liberalize the economy and social structure of the USSR, eventually leading to the abatement of the Soviet Union. In 1990, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace.

Read documents and interviews from the 1990 USA-USSR Summit.

Confederate Constitution adopted

On March 11, 1861, seven former US states adopted the Constitution of the Confederate States of America, which closely followed the language, if not necessarily the purport, of the original US Constitution. Section 9 (4) of the Confederate Constitution read "No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law denying or impairing the right of property in negro slaves shall be passed," enshrining the right to own slaves as fundamental law.

ICC holds first meeting

The war crimes court known as the International Criminal Court (ICC) swore in its first batch of judges on March 11, 2003. The meeting took place eight months after the ratification of the court's Rome Statute. Then-UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said of the occasion: It has taken mankind many years to reach this moment. By the solemn undertaking they have given here in open court, these 11 men and seven women, representing all regions of the world and many different cultures and legal traditions, have made themselves the embodiment of our collective conscience. Learn more about the work of the ICC.  

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