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News US review boards cleared 46 Guantanamo detainees for transfer home in 2006
US review boards cleared 46 Guantanamo detainees for transfer home in 2006
Kate Heneroty
December 25, 2006 12:43:00 pm

US Defense Department Administrative Review Boards (ARB) reviewing the status of prisoners held by the US at Guantanamo Bay cleared 46 detainees for transfer to the custody of their home countries, according to new...

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News UK crime rate rise detailed, prison population surge predicted in leaked report
UK crime rate rise detailed, prison population surge predicted in leaked report
Kate Heneroty
December 25, 2006 11:11:00 am

A recent UK Home Office report prepared for Prime Minister Tony Blair details the country's first increase in crime since the mid-1990s and predicts a massive 25% increase...

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News Georgia school district to remove evolution disclaimer stickers from textbooks
Georgia school district to remove evolution disclaimer stickers from textbooks
Kate Heneroty
December 20, 2006 10:50:00 am

The Cobb County School District on Tuesday agreed to remove anti-evolution stickers from its high school biology textbooks. In 2002, parents sued the suburban Atlanta school district claiming the stickers violated the separation between...

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News Dutch citizen to be extradited to US for Iraqi insurgency terror trial
Dutch citizen to be extradited to US for Iraqi insurgency terror trial
Kate Heneroty
December 20, 2006 10:29:00 am

A court in the Netherlands has approved the extradition of a Dutch national to the United States to face trial for conspiring to participate in insurgent attacks on US troops in the Iraqi city of Fallujah...

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News Guantanamo combatant status reviews ‘show trials’: report
Guantanamo combatant status reviews ‘show trials’: report
Kate Heneroty
November 17, 2006 11:40:00 am

US military Combatant Status Review Tribunals do not offer detainees at Guantanamo Bay an adequate opportunity to contest the accusations against them or to object to their status as enemy combatants ,...

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Bush tells Australia PM Hicks to be tried
Kate Heneroty
November 17, 2006 08:11:00 am

US President George W. Bush assured Australian Prime Minister John Howard Friday that Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks would be brought to trial, but refused to give a timetable for the trial....

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Federal judge blocks California city anti-immigrant ordinance
Kate Heneroty
November 17, 2006 07:46:00 am

US District Judge John Houston Thursday temporarily stayed enforcement of an ordinance passed by the city of Escondido, California which would punish landlords for renting to illegal immigrants . The ordinance requires landlords...

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News US Marine sentenced to 21 months in Hamdania Iraqi civilian murder case
US Marine sentenced to 21 months in Hamdania Iraqi civilian murder case
Kate Heneroty
November 17, 2006 07:22:00 am

US Marine Lance Cpl. Tyler A. Jackson was sentenced to 21 months in military custody Thursday for his participation in the kidnapping and murder of an Iraqi man in Hamdania [USMC timeline; JURIST...

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Indonesia seeks jail term for Newmont executive in criminal pollution trial
Kate Heneroty
November 10, 2006 08:53:00 am

Indonesian prosecutors requested a three-year prison term Friday for American Richard Ness , the regional chief executive of Denver-based Newmont Mining Corporation , an American gold-mining company with a subsidiary in Indonesia. Ness and...

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Egypt president cautions against Saddam execution
Kate Heneroty
November 10, 2006 08:27:00 am

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak spoke out against the pending execution of Saddam Hussein Thursday, saying it could push Iraq into even greater violence. Mubarak, believed to share the views of many Arab...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

American Bar Assocation founded

The American Bar Association (ABA) was founded on August 21, 1878, by a group of 75 lawyers. The organization would become the US's foremost association of attorneys, although its membership declined substantially from 2009 to 2019. Learn more about the history of the ABA.

American Bar Association organized

On August 21, 1878, the American Bar Association was organized at a meeting in Saratoga Springs, New York.

The original ABA constitution, which is still substantially the charter of the association, defined its mission as "the advancement of the science of jurisprudence, the promotion of the administration of justice and a uniformity of legislation throughout the country....".

Dumbarton Oaks Conference opens

On August 21, 1944, the Washington Conversations on International Peace and Security opened in the Dumbarton Oaks mansion in Washington, DC, US. From the opening of the conference until its close on October 7, representatives of the US, USSR, the UK, and the Republic of China laid the groundwork for the United Nations and the post-WWII world. Learn more about the Dumbarton Oaks Conference from the United Nations.

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