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News UN rights chief outlines most significant international human rights issues
UN rights chief outlines most significant international human rights issues
Michael Haggerson
September 10, 2012 12:19:49 pm

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Monday addressed the world's most significant human rights issues as she opened the 21st session of the UN Human Rights Council . Pillay criticized Bahrain...

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News Federal judge dismisses challenge to Arizona union election laws
Federal judge dismisses challenge to Arizona union election laws
Michael Haggerson
September 7, 2012 03:44:34 pm

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Arizona on Wednesday dismissed a complaint by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) challenging an Arizona state constitutional amendment that guarantees a...

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News Federal judge approves settlement in e-book conspiracy suit
Federal judge approves settlement in e-book conspiracy suit
Michael Haggerson
September 7, 2012 01:59:51 pm

A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Thursday approved a settlement agreement between the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and certain e-book publishers in a...

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News Egypt lifts ban on veiled news anchors
Egypt lifts ban on veiled news anchors
Michael Haggerson
September 3, 2012 10:48:34 am

Egypt lifted a decades-long ban on veiled female news reporters on Sunday by having Fatma Nabil read the noon news in a headscarf. This broadcast marked the first time a woman appeared on Egyptian state TV wearing a veil...

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News ICTY denies Karadzic request for new trial
ICTY denies Karadzic request for new trial
Michael Haggerson
September 3, 2012 10:18:50 am

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Monday denied the request for a new trial of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic . Karadzic accused prosecutors...

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News ICC investigating allegations of war crimes in Mali
ICC investigating allegations of war crimes in Mali
Michael Haggerson
August 31, 2012 02:52:47 pm

Officials from the International Criminal Court (ICC) were in Mali on Friday investigating whether two Islamic groups, the Movement for Oneness and Jihad and Ansar Dine, have committed war crimes in Mali. According to Malian officials the Islamic groups...

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News Japan court dismisses Apple patent suit against Samsung
Japan court dismisses Apple patent suit against Samsung
Michael Haggerson
August 31, 2012 02:07:38 pm

A Tokyo court on Friday dismissed a claim by Apple that Samsung Electronics violated Apple's patents with its smartphones and tablets. The technology at issued involved synchronizing music and video data . The judge stated that...

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News Guatemala medical experimentation victims to appeal dismissal of suit
Guatemala medical experimentation victims to appeal dismissal of suit
Michael Haggerson
August 14, 2012 08:57:02 am

Seven Guatemalans who alleged that they had been the subject of non-consensual human medical experimentation by the US Public Health Service (PHS) in the 1940s appealed the dismissal of their lawsuit to the US Court...

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News Federal court rejects challenge to Hawaii same-sex marriage prohibition
Federal court rejects challenge to Hawaii same-sex marriage prohibition
Michael Haggerson
August 10, 2012 09:14:11 am

The US District Court for the District of Hawaii on Wednesday denied a state law challenge brought by a lesbian couple who seek to be married rather than enter into a civil union. Natasha Jackson and Janin...

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Ivory Coast commission reports war crimes committed during post-election violence
Michael Haggerson
August 10, 2012 08:45:34 am

The Ivory Coast's commission of inquiry into the country's 2010 post-election violence submitted a report to President Alassane Ouattara on Wednesday revealing that hundreds of fighters on both sides of the hostilities committed war...

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FDR proposed 'court-packing' plan

On February 5, 1937, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, frustrated with the US Supreme Court's treatment of some of his economic reforms, proposed a plan to add judges to that and other federal courts whenever a sitting judge reached the age of seventy but declined to retire. Critics accused Roosevelt of indulging in autocracy and "court-packing." Review the text of Roosevelt's "fireside chat" on the proposal from March 9, 1937. Roosevelt eventually dropped the initiative but was nonetheless able to fill seven vacancies on the Court over the next four years, achieving his goal indirectly.

Panamanian dictator Noriega indicted

On February 5, 1988, Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega was indicted on charges of drug smuggling and money laundering. The following year, he was extradited to the United States and later sentenced to 30 years in US federal prison. In 1999, the French government requested that Noriega be extradited to France, where he had been convicted of money laundering. In that same year, the government of Panama also requested the extradition of Noriega, as a result of his 1995 conviction in absentia on murder charges.

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