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News BREAKING NEWS ~ US judge refuses to cut off BlackBerry service just yet
BREAKING NEWS ~ US judge refuses to cut off BlackBerry service just yet
Jeannie Shawl
February 24, 2006 01:07:00 pm

A US federal judge has refused to grant an immediate injunction against Research in Motion , which would have shut down the company's BlackBerry wireless service in the United States. In 2003, the US District Court...

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News Ports takeover approval alleged illegal
Ports takeover approval alleged illegal
Jeannie Shawl
February 24, 2006 08:54:00 am

US Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) said Thursday that the Bush administration is ignoring federal law by refusing to extend its investigation into the takeover of operations of six US ports by Dubai Ports World , a...

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News Saddam defense seeks disqualification of presiding judge
Saddam defense seeks disqualification of presiding judge
Jeannie Shawl
February 23, 2006 08:21:00 pm

Lawyers defending former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein , on trial before the Iraqi High Criminal Court, have filed a formal motion seeking the disqualification of chief judge Rauf Abdel-Rahman . Abdel-Rahman began presiding over the...

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News Supreme Court rules in federal immunity, sentencing, discrimination cases
Supreme Court rules in federal immunity, sentencing, discrimination cases
Jeannie Shawl
February 22, 2006 12:04:00 pm

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday handed down decisions in four cases, including Dolan v. U.S. Postal Service , where the Court ruled that a Pennsylvania woman could sue the US Postal Service...

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News ICTY prosecutor says war crimes fugitive Mladic still at large
ICTY prosecutor says war crimes fugitive Mladic still at large
Jeannie Shawl
February 22, 2006 08:39:00 am

Carla del Ponte , chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia , said Wednesday that Serbian government officials had told her that war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic has...

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News Serbia denies reports of Mladic arrest
Serbia denies reports of Mladic arrest
Jeannie Shawl
February 21, 2006 02:00:00 pm

The Serbian government on Tuesday denied earlier reports that Bosnian Serb war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic had been arrested and would be turned over to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former...

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News BREAKING NEWS ~ Serb war crimes fugitive Mladic arrested: report
BREAKING NEWS ~ Serb war crimes fugitive Mladic arrested: report
Jeannie Shawl
February 21, 2006 12:21:00 pm

Reuters is reporting that top Bosnian Serb war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic has been arrested, according to Serbian news sources. Mladic's arrest has not been officially confirmed. The former general has been charged by...

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News BREAKING NEWS ~ Supreme Court to hear ‘partial-birth’ abortion ban case
BREAKING NEWS ~ Supreme Court to hear ‘partial-birth’ abortion ban case
Jeannie Shawl
February 21, 2006 10:12:00 am

MSNBC is reporting that the US Supreme Court has agreed to consider a case concerning the constitutionality of the federal Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act .The Bush administration in September appealed to the Supreme...

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News BREAKING NEWS ~ Federal jury finds Merck not liable in Vioxx case
BREAKING NEWS ~ Federal jury finds Merck not liable in Vioxx case
Jeannie Shawl
February 17, 2006 05:58:00 pm

AP is reporting that a federal jury has cleared Merck of responsibility in the death of a Florida man who had taken the popular painkiller Vioxx . The painkiller was recalled in 2004 after clinical...

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News Former Rwanda president loses appeal against incitement conviction
Former Rwanda president loses appeal against incitement conviction
Jeannie Shawl
February 17, 2006 02:27:00 pm

The Rwandan Supreme Court on Friday rejected the appeal of former Rwandan President Pasteur Bizimungu , who had asked the court to overturn his 15-year criminal sentence for inciting violence, embezzlement, and associating with...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg sentenced to death for spying

On April 5, 1951, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were sentenced to death after a treason trial in which they were convicted of passing atomic secrets to the Soviet Union. Learn more about the Rosenberg trial.

Lockerbie bombers turned over for trial

On April 5, 1999, the government of Libya turned over to British authorities two of its citizens who were accused of blowing up Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988. The subsequent trial of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi and Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah began on May 3, 2000. When the court reached its verdict, Fhimah was found not guilty and returned to Libya, while Megrahi was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison.

Learn more about the Lockerbie Air Disaster and the trial of Megrahi and Fhimah from the Syracuse University Law School. Also, learn more about the investigation into the disaster from the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation.

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