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News Genocide suspect Karadzic threatens lawsuit based on kidnapping claim
Genocide suspect Karadzic threatens lawsuit based on kidnapping claim
Mike Rosen-Molina
July 24, 2008 10:06:00 am

A lawyer for Bosnian Serb leader and former fugitive Radovan Karadzic on Thursday threatened to sue several unknown persons whom he alleges kidnapped Karadzic last week. Serbian officials have said that Karadzic was arrested...

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News UK court affirms convictions in fertilizer bomb plot case
UK court affirms convictions in fertilizer bomb plot case
Mike Rosen-Molina
July 23, 2008 12:14:00 pm

A three-judge panel from the British Court of Appeal on Wednesday denied the appeals of five men convicted on charges of conspiring to cause death and suffering through a plan to detonate bombs in a crowded area...

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News Iraq president rejects draft election law after Kurds boycott
Iraq president rejects draft election law after Kurds boycott
Mike Rosen-Molina
July 23, 2008 11:15:00 am

Iraqi President Jalal Talabani and the two other members of the Iraqi Presidency Council refused to sign a provincial election bill on Wednesday, noting that it had been passed by an incomplete parliament....

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News Italy to scale back Roma fingerprinting plan
Italy to scale back Roma fingerprinting plan
Mike Rosen-Molina
July 23, 2008 10:41:00 am

Italy will rework plans to fingerprint the country's Roma minority , altering requirements to only include those who do not have valid identification cards, the country's Interior Ministry announced Tuesday. The decision is seen as a concession...

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News ACLU challenges Alabama felony disenfranchisement law
ACLU challenges Alabama felony disenfranchisement law
Mike Rosen-Molina
July 22, 2008 11:23:00 am

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit Monday in Alabama's Montgomery County Circuit Court, challenging an Alabama law that prevents some convicted felons from voting. A 2003 amendment to the state...

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Military law could change Supreme Court ruling on death penalty for child rape
Mike Rosen-Molina
July 22, 2008 10:38:00 am

Louisiana state prosecutors on Monday petitioned the US Supreme Court to reconsider its June decision in Kennedy v. Louisiana , where it found that imposing the death sentence for child rape where the...

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News Myanmar objects to monitoring powers of new ASEAN human rights body
Myanmar objects to monitoring powers of new ASEAN human rights body
Mike Rosen-Molina
July 22, 2008 10:30:00 am

Myanmar Foreign Minister Nyan Win has called for the newly-established Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to refrain from interfering in the internal affairs of ASEAN member nations. The comments, made during a Monday meeting to organize...

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Mexico to ease penalties on illegal immigrants
Mike Rosen-Molina
July 21, 2008 03:41:00 pm

The Mexican government enacted a law Monday prohibiting the government from sending illegal immigrants to prison. In May, Mexican rights activists pressed Mexican President Felipe Calderón to sign the bill,...

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Malaysia government pushes DNA identification bill
Mike Rosen-Molina
July 21, 2008 12:34:00 pm

The Malaysian government will table a bill at the August parliamentary session that would require criminal suspects to submit to DNA testing, according to a Monday report in the newspaper Nanyang Siang Pau . If passed,...

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UK Law Lords hear deportation appeal of woman fleeing Sharia law
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July 21, 2008 11:58:00 am

A divorced Lebanese woman told the UK Law Lords Monday that her human rights would be violated if she were deported to Lebanon, arguing that Lebanese Sharia law would put her and...

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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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