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News Florida voters to decide on medical marijuana
Florida voters to decide on medical marijuana
Nicholas Tomsho
January 28, 2014 11:23:28 am

The Florida Supreme Court on Monday approved a citizen initiative to vote on an amendment to the state constitution on the legality of medical marijuana. In a 4-3 ruling, the Supreme Court determined that the...

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Ukraine president promises concessions in response to spreading protests
Nicholas Tomsho
January 25, 2014 12:34:47 pm

Ukraine President Viktor Yanukovych promised concessions on Friday in response to the growing unrest in the country. The concessions would include a change in Yanukovych's cabinet members, amnesty for many imprisoned protesters who have not...

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News Croatia extradites ex-spy chief to Germany
Croatia extradites ex-spy chief to Germany
Nicholas Tomsho
January 25, 2014 11:48:11 am

The Supreme Court of Croatia on Friday upheld a lower court's ruling that former Yugoslav secret service official Josip Perkovic could be extradited to Germany where he has been implicated in the 1983...

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Chemical storage regulation proposed in wake of West Virginia spill
Nicholas Tomsho
January 21, 2014 12:51:51 pm

New legislation has been proposed to tighten regulations on chemical storage facilities following a chemical spill that contaminated the water supply for 300,000 West Virginia residents. 7,500 gallons of coal-cleaning chemicals leaked from an above-ground storage tank in Charleston...

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Thailand declares state of emergency over protests
Nicholas Tomsho
January 21, 2014 11:49:01 am

Thailand imposed a 60-day state of emergency in Bangkok and the surrounding area on Tuesday to respond to anti-government protests. The decree gives the government broad powers in handling the unrest including censoring the media, establishing curfews,...

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UN rights expert urges Cambodia political parties to reconcile
Nicholas Tomsho
January 18, 2014 12:05:55 pm

UN Special Rapporteur Surya Subedi called Friday for the government and opposition parties of Cambodia to end their ongoing political impasse and come together on human rights reforms. The impasse arose from still contested elections held in July...

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Iran has executed 40 people in two weeks: Amnesty International
Nicholas Tomsho
January 18, 2014 11:13:57 am

The Iranian government has carried out 40 executions in the two weeks since the beginning of 2014, claims human rights group Amnesty International in a statement published Thursday. "The spike in the number of executions...

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Italy Constitutional Court: parliament legitimate, electoral law unconstitutional
Nicholas Tomsho
January 14, 2014 10:46:52 am

Italy's Constitutional Court released a judgment Tuesday detailing their reasoning for striking down the country's current electoral law in a December ruling. The voting law, which has been widely criticized for making election results uncertain, was...

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News Serbia ex-secret service officials arrested for 1999 killing of activist
Serbia ex-secret service officials arrested for 1999 killing of activist
Nicholas Tomsho
January 14, 2014 10:01:33 am

Two former Serbian senior secret service officials were arrested Tuesday under suspicion that they planned the 1999 killing of anti-government journalist Slavko Curuvija. Police claim that former spy agency head Milan Radonjic and operations chief Ratko Romic...

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Federal appeals court upholds multibillion dollar settlement for BP oil spill
Nicholas Tomsho
January 11, 2014 01:20:50 pm

A federal appeals court ruled on Friday to uphold a district court ruling approving BP's settlement with parties who claim to have suffered financial loss due to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill [JURIST news...

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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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