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DOJ trying to block legal access to detainee who could disclose CIA techniques
Ned Mulcahy
November 4, 2006 03:08:00 pm

The US Department of Justice is attempting to block lawyers' access to Majid Khan, one of 14 "high value" prisoners previously held at a CIA secret prison but recently transferred to the...

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US District Judge James Munley granted a temporary restraining order late Tuesday prohibiting the city of Hazleton, Pennsylvania from enforcing the city's Illegal Immigration Relief Act and Landlord Tenant Ordinance . The...

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Ned Mulcahy
October 31, 2006 08:28:00 pm

US officials plan to request that convicted sex offender Malcolm Watson serve his three-year probation in New York instead of Canada. According to Erie County District Attorney Frank J. Clark , the request is motivated by complaints from...

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Ned Mulcahy
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An attorney for US Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA) argued before the US DC Circuit Court of Appeals Tuesday that the leaking of an illegally-obtained phone call to the news media should be protected by the First Amendment....

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The Moroccan Association for Human Rights (AMDH) says that a Moroccan detainee held at Guantanamo Bay who was supposedly transferred to the government of Morocco on October 12 is missing, according...

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US Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) has urged the US Justice Department to appeal this week's federal court ruling vacating the conviction of former Enron Chairman and CEO Kenneth Lay ....

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Dr. Lester M. Crawford , former commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) , pleaded guilty to charges of conflict of interest and false writing at his arraignment hearing...

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October 13, 2006 02:47:00 pm

Pakistani Interior Minister Aftab Sherpao said Friday that the US plans to release two Pakistani detainees held at Guantanamo Bay and that Pakistan expects the men to arrive in their home country by October 15....

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October 13, 2006 02:41:00 pm

The Supreme Court of Canada unanimously ruled Friday that a British Columbia judge overstepped his sentencing power when he ordered a convicted criminal on probation for sexual assault to submit to mandatory submissions of bodily fluids for...

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Turkey threatens legislative retaliation if France passes Armenian genocide law
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October 7, 2006 04:09:00 pm

The head of the justice committee that reviews draft legislation in Turkey's parliament warned in an interview published in a Turkish newspaper Saturday that if France attempts to make it a crime to deny that the Ottoman...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Reichstag Fire Decree issued in Germany

On February 28, 1933, German President Paul von Hindenburg issued the Presidential Decree for the Protection of People and State in response to the burning of the Reichstag (the German Parliament building) on the previous day. More commonly known as the Reichstag Fire Decree, the law suspended many key civil liberties, such as free press, habeas corpus, and warrant requirements. Blaming Communists for the attack on the Reichstag, the Nazi party and newly-appointed Chancellor Adolf Hitler pressed the law through as a first step in establishing absolute control over Germany. On March 23, the German Parliament passed the Enabling Act, which empowered Adolf Hitler to become the dictator of Germany. Four months later on July 14, the Nazis solidified their control over Germany with the passage of the Law Against the Establishment of Parties eliminated all political parties in Germany other than the Nazi Party.

Congress ratified Manypenny Agreement on the Black Hills

On February 28, 1877, the US Congress ratified the Manypenny Agreement with the Lakota Sioux, under which the United States took control of 900,000 acres of the Black Hills. Read the ratification act, which includes the terms of the Agreement. The Lakota argue to this day that the agreement is illegal, was obtained by coercion associated with starvation, and that the Black Hills should be returned to them.

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