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News Australia judge freezes profits from ex-Guantanamo detainee book
Australia judge freezes profits from ex-Guantanamo detainee book
Maureen Cosgrove
August 3, 2011 10:45:42 am

An Australian judge on Wednesday froze the profits from a memoir written by former Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks . Hicks spent more than five years without trial in US custody after being captured...

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News American Indian tribe adopts law recognizing same-sex marriage
American Indian tribe adopts law recognizing same-sex marriage
Maureen Cosgrove
August 3, 2011 09:49:43 am

An American Indian tribe in Washington state on Monday voted to adopt a new law recognizing same-sex marriage . The law, approved by the Suquamish Tribe council, extends marriage rights to same-sex couples...

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News Italy lawmakers approve draft burqa ban law
Italy lawmakers approve draft burqa ban law
Maureen Cosgrove
August 2, 2011 03:42:30 pm

The Constitutional Affairs Committee , an Italian parliamentary commission, on Tuesday approved a draft law that bans women from wearing full-face veils, including the Islamic burqa [JURIST...

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News Russia reopens posthumous case against dead lawyer
Russia reopens posthumous case against dead lawyer
Maureen Cosgrove
August 2, 2011 02:01:05 pm

Russian investigators on Tuesday reopened a case against former lawyer and purported whistle-blower Sergei Magnitsky, who died in a Moscow prison in November 2009. Magnitsky was arrested on allegations of tax fraud after implicating Russian police in...

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News Vietnam court hears appeal of prominent rights lawyer
Vietnam court hears appeal of prominent rights lawyer
Maureen Cosgrove
August 2, 2011 12:42:49 pm

A Vietnamese court on Tuesday began hearing the appeal of well-known lawyer and activist Cu Huy Ha Vu, who was convicted in April of carrying out anti-state propaganda. Vu was sentenced to seven years of imprisonment and...

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News Federal judge rules CIA not in contempt for interrogation videotape destruction
Federal judge rules CIA not in contempt for interrogation videotape destruction
Maureen Cosgrove
August 2, 2011 10:46:25 am

A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was not in contempt of court for destroying videotapes thought to have shown harsh interrogations of terror suspects, but ordered the CIA...

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News DOJ challenges Alabama immigration law
DOJ challenges Alabama immigration law
Maureen Cosgrove
August 2, 2011 09:20:12 am

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Monday filed a complaint in the US District Court for the Northern District of Alabama challenging an Alabama law that expands restrictions on...

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News Austria court rejects Serbia extradition request for war crimes suspect
Austria court rejects Serbia extradition request for war crimes suspect
Maureen Cosgrove
August 1, 2011 02:14:56 pm

An Austrian court on Friday rejected Serbia's extradition request for former Bosnian general and suspected war criminal Jovan Divjak. The court ruled that Divjak likely would not receive a fair trial if he were extradited, expressing concerns...

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News Israel to extradite war crimes suspect to Bosnia
Israel to extradite war crimes suspect to Bosnia
Maureen Cosgrove
August 1, 2011 12:47:24 pm

The Jerusalem District Court on Monday ruled that suspected Bosnian war criminal Aleksander Cvetkovic could be extradited to Bosnia to stand trial for crimes committed during the 1992-1995 Bosnian Civil War . Bosnian authorities claim that Cvetkovic...

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Mubarak trial to be televised
Maureen Cosgrove
August 1, 2011 11:35:09 am

The trial of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak will be televised live, the trial judge announced Monday. The trial will also be held at the national police academy in a room large enough...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

US Congress approves first Patent Act

On April 10, 1790, Congress approved the US's first Patent Act. The Patent Act of 1790 allowed inventors to maintain "sole and exclusive right and liberty of making, constructing, using and vending to others" a patented invention for fourteen years. The Act furthermore created the US Patent Board, the precursor to the modern US Patent Office. Read the current US Patent Law from the Cornell University Law School.

Hugo Grotius born

Hugo Grotius, Dutch jurist, statesman and father of international law was born in Delft, Holland, on April 10, 1583. His best-known work is De Jure Belli ac Pacis (On the Law of War and Peace), which he published in 1625.

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