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News US, EU reach interim agreement on airline passenger data-sharing
US, EU reach interim agreement on airline passenger data-sharing
Kate Heneroty
October 6, 2006 10:03:00 am

US and European diplomats have reached an interim agreement on new trans-Atlantic airline passenger data-sharing policies . Under the new regulations, airlines must continue to share 34 pieces of passenger data, including passenger names, addresses and credit...

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News Saddam lawyer predicts ‘unmitigated chaos’ if client executed
Saddam lawyer predicts ‘unmitigated chaos’ if client executed
Kate Heneroty
October 6, 2006 07:46:00 am

Ramsey Clark , former US Attorney General and a member of the Saddam Hussein defense team, predicted Thursday that the execution of the former Iraqi dictator would lead to "catastrophic violence" and "total, unmitigated chaos."...

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News Ousted HP execs surrender on felony charges
Ousted HP execs surrender on felony charges
Kate Heneroty
October 6, 2006 07:21:00 am

Former Hewlett-Packard chairwoman Patricia Dunn and former ethics officer Kevin Hunsaker surrendered to authorities Thursday and agreed to face felony charges stemming from their roles in the corporate spying scandal...

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News Rights group condemns Pakistan for selling terror suspects to US
Rights group condemns Pakistan for selling terror suspects to US
Kate Heneroty
September 29, 2006 08:44:00 am

Amnesty International accused Pakistan Friday of committing numerous human rights violations in support of the US-led "war on terror," including arresting terror suspects and holding them in secret locations until they can be sold...

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News Mexico warns border fence would harm US relations as Senate advances bill
Mexico warns border fence would harm US relations as Senate advances bill
Kate Heneroty
September 29, 2006 08:16:00 am

Mexico's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Thursday that it was "deeply worried" about the proposed construction of a 700-mile border fence between the US and Mexico, fearing it would "increase tension in...

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News Saddam trial judge’s relatives killed, wounded in Baghdad attack
Saddam trial judge’s relatives killed, wounded in Baghdad attack
Kate Heneroty
September 29, 2006 07:55:00 am

A brother-in-law of the new chief judge in the Saddam Hussein genocide trial was shot and killed Friday in Baghdad. His nephew was seriously wounded in the same attack. Police were not certain whether the attack...

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News Domestic surveillance bill passed in House
Domestic surveillance bill passed in House
Kate Heneroty
September 29, 2006 07:23:00 am

The US House of Representatives passed the Electronic Surveillance Modernization Act Thursday night, voting 232-191 mostly along party lines. The bill, approved by the House Judiciary Committee last week, specifies when...

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News Lawmakers blast HP executives for allowing corporate spying
Lawmakers blast HP executives for allowing corporate spying
Kate Heneroty
September 28, 2006 07:14:00 pm

Members of the US House Energy and Commerce Committee lambasted executives of the Hewlett-Packard Corporation Thursday for their role in a corporate espionage scandal and demanded to know why company...

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News Federal judge gives domestic spying another week
Federal judge gives domestic spying another week
Kate Heneroty
September 28, 2006 03:29:00 pm

US District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor on Thursday rejected the Bush Administration’s proposal to continue its domestic surveillance program while her August 17 decision finding the program unconstitutional and...

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News Constitution bars senator from serving as military judge, court rules
Constitution bars senator from serving as military judge, court rules
Kate Heneroty
September 22, 2006 08:51:00 am

US Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) cannot serve concurrently as both a senator and a military judge because it violates the US Constitution's separation of powers requirement, the US Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces ...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Maurice Papon convicted of war crimes

On April 2, 1998, Maurice Papon was convicted of war crimes for his role in deporting French Jews to concentration camps during the Nazi occupation of France. Under German occupation, Papon served as the supervisor of the Service for Jewish Questions in Bordeaux from which he collaborated with the Nazi SS and oversaw the deportation of 1,560 Jewish men, women, and children to concentration camps. Read a biography of Maurice Papon from the BBC.

Massachusetts enacted anti-Vietnam War bill

On April 2, 1970, the Governor of Massachusetts signed into law an anti-Vietnam War bill providing that no inhabitant of Massachusetts inducted into or serving in the armed forces "shall be required to serve" abroad in an armed hostility that had not been declared a war by Congress under Article I, Section 8, clause 11 of the United States Constitution. Supporters of the legislation hoped that the US Supreme Court would seize on the obvious conflict that the bill created between state and federal law and would rule on the constitutionality of the Vietnam War itself, but the Court refused to exercise original jurisdiction, forcing the case into the lower federal courts.

Trial of Marquess of Queensberry begins, leading to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde

On April 2, 1895, the libel trial of the Marquess of Queensberry began on allegations that he called Oscar Wilde a "posing somdomite [sic]". The trial led to the disclosure of details of Wilde's personal life that eventually resulted in his imprisonment for homosexuality. Read about the trials of Oscar Wilde.

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