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News Dallas suburb approves new rental ordinance targeting illegal immigrants
Dallas suburb approves new rental ordinance targeting illegal immigrants
Leslie Schulman
January 23, 2008 07:14:00 am

The City Council of Farmers Branch , a Dallas, Texas suburb, on Tuesday approved a measure that would require all adults to apply for a city license before they can lease...

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Sears Tower terror retrial underway
Leslie Schulman
January 22, 2008 01:08:00 pm

Jury selection began Tuesday in the retrial of six of the seven men charged with allegedly conspiring to bomb the FBI headquarters in Miami and the Sears Tower in Chicago. The seven men first went to...

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News US Supreme Court refuses to consider class action status for Enron shareholders
US Supreme Court refuses to consider class action status for Enron shareholders
Leslie Schulman
January 22, 2008 12:25:00 pm

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday denied without comment a petition for certiorari filed in University of California Regents v. Merrill Lynch (06-1341) , a derivative lawsuit filed in...

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News Kenya opposition brings ICC ‘crimes against humanity’ complaint against government
Kenya opposition brings ICC ‘crimes against humanity’ complaint against government
Leslie Schulman
January 22, 2008 12:02:00 pm

Kenya's main opposition party, the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) , has filed a formal complaint at the International Criminal Court (ICC) , alleging that the Kenyan government has committed crimes against humanity in using force against demonstrators...

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News Federal judge orders Libya to pay $6B to US victims of 1989 air bombing
Federal judge orders Libya to pay $6B to US victims of 1989 air bombing
Leslie Schulman
January 16, 2008 08:20:00 am

US District Judge Henry Kennedy ruled Tuesday that the Libyan government and six Libyan officials should pay more than $6 billion in damages to families of seven Americans who died in the 1989 bombing...

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Conyers calls for special counsel in CIA interrogation videos probe
Leslie Schulman
January 16, 2008 07:54:00 am

US House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) sent a letter Tuesday to Attorney General Michael Mukasey urging him to appoint a special counsel to investigate allegations that the US Central Intelligence Agency...

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DOJ facing legal hurdles in Blackwater Iraqi civilian shooting criminal case: NYT
Leslie Schulman
January 16, 2008 07:05:00 am

Bringing criminal charges against Blackwater employees for the September 16 killings of 14 Iraqi civilians in West Baghdad would require surmounting numerous legal hurdles, US Department of Justice officials told Congress during...

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US to increase deportations of illegal immigrant criminals
Leslie Schulman
January 15, 2008 01:19:00 pm

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) plans to step up deportation of illegal immigrants serving time in US prisons and jails during 2008, ICE Assistant Secretary Julie L. Myers said in an interview published Tuesday...

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News Norway to extradite Vukovar war crimes suspect to Serbia
Norway to extradite Vukovar war crimes suspect to Serbia
Leslie Schulman
January 15, 2008 12:42:00 pm

Norway has agreed to extradite an unnamed Croatian citizen wanted for his alleged involvement in the 1991 Vukovar massacre to Serbia to face war crimes charges, Norwegian officials said Tuesday. Croatia...

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News Estonia trial begins for ethnic Russians accused of violence over WWII memorial
Estonia trial begins for ethnic Russians accused of violence over WWII memorial
Leslie Schulman
January 15, 2008 11:59:00 am

Four ethnic Russian Estonians accused of taking part in violence that occurred last year during the removal of a Red Army war memorial in Tallinn went on trial in Estonia Monday. The violence occurred last April when Estonia removed...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Julius Caesar assassinated on Ides of March

Roman dictator Julius Caesar was assassinated at the Roman Forum by a number of his own senators led by Marcus Brutus on March 15, 44 BC over concerns that he was becoming too powerful. The assassination wound up being a political failure as the Roman citizenry ended up becoming incensed at the conspirators and a civil war broke out, which Brutus and his supporters lost to Mark Antony and Octavian (later Augustus). William Shakespeare later wrote in his eponymous play about the assassination, "Beware the ides of March." Learn more about the assassination of Julius Caesar.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg born

US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was born on March 15, 1933.

Learn more about Justice Ginsburg from Oyez, the Supreme Court multimedia project at Northwestern University.

Code Napoleon promulgated

On March 15, 1803, the Code Napoleon (French Civil Code) was promulgated in France. The Code is considered the first successful legal code in Europe and is still used today as the basis for the modern French Civil Code. Napoleon's conquests spread his Code across the European Continent, influencing modern legal codes in Portugal, Austria, Italy, and other nations. Read a history of the Code Napoleon.

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