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News Blagojevich pleads not guilty to corruption charges
Blagojevich pleads not guilty to corruption charges
Safiya Boucaud
April 14, 2009 03:38:00 pm

Former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich pleaded not guilty to corruption charges Tuesday before the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois . Earlier this month, Blagojevich was indicted on 16 felony...

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News US Army sergeant pleads not guilty to killing Iraq detainees
US Army sergeant pleads not guilty to killing Iraq detainees
Safiya Boucaud
April 13, 2009 11:58:00 am

US Army Sgt. John Hatley entered a plea of not guilty to murder charges at his court-martial on Monday for the killing of four unarmed Iraqi prisoners in 2007. Hatley, along with Sgt. Michael...

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News Iraq court reduces sentence of shoe-throwing journalist
Iraq court reduces sentence of shoe-throwing journalist
Safiya Boucaud
April 8, 2009 07:10:00 am

A federal appeals court in Baghdad on Tuesday reduced the sentence for the Iraqi journalist accused of throwing his shoe at former US president George W. Bush from three years to one year. Lawyers for Muntadar...

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News ICTY dismisses Karadzic ‘immunity’ appeal
ICTY dismisses Karadzic ‘immunity’ appeal
Safiya Boucaud
April 7, 2009 03:50:00 pm

The appeals chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Monday dismissed the appeal of former Bosnian Serb leader and war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic , in...

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Supreme Court declines to review Mumia conviction
Safiya Boucaud
April 6, 2009 03:50:00 pm

The US Supreme Court denied certiorari Monday in the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal v. Beard . The Court offered no explanation for their refusal to hear the appeal of journalist and...

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Obama nominates Yale law dean to be State Department legal adviser
Safiya Boucaud
March 24, 2009 09:36:00 am

US President Barack Obama on Monday nominated Yale Law School Dean Harold Hongju Koh to be legal adviser to the Department of State (DOS) . Koh...

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Singapore parliament passes bill permitting political films
Safiya Boucaud
March 23, 2009 03:49:00 pm

The Singapore Parliament amended the Films Act Monday to allow for the broadcast of certain types of previously banned films featuring politicians or political parties. The amendment will allow political events to be recorded...

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ICTY reduces former Serb leader’s sentence
Safiya Boucaud
March 17, 2009 03:37:00 pm

The appellate chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Tuesday partially reversed the conviction and reduced the sentence of former Bosnian Serb parliamentary leader Momcilo Krajisnik [ICTY...

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Obama to limit scope of presidential signing statements
Safiya Boucaud
March 10, 2009 05:05:00 pm

US President Barack Obama issued a memorandum Monday that proposes to limit the use of attaching presidential signing statements which raise constitutional or other legal questions before bills are signed into law. The...

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Spain judicial body investigating terrorism judge Garzon
Safiya Boucaud
March 10, 2009 02:18:00 pm

Spain's General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) on Tuesday said that there will be an investigation into the failure of Judge Baltasar Garzon to report his earnings while on sabbatical...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

President Johnson signed law against burning draft cards

On August 31, 1965, President Johnson signed a law making the burning of draft cards a federal offense subject to a five-year prison sentence and $1000 fine. In response to the law and in protest of the war in Vietnam, the student-run National Coordinating Committee to End the War in Vietnam staged the first public burning of a draft card in the United States on October 15, 1965. The constitutionality of the federal law was upheld in 1968 by the US Supreme Court in US v. O'Brien.

Gdansk Agreement reached

On August 31, 1980, the communist government of Poland and labor leaders settled the Gdansk Agreement. The accord settled a summer of labor strikes at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk, Poland. With the Agreement, Poland became the first communist country to allow the creation of an independent labor union, which was called Solidarity. Solidarity then became the driving force that ended communism in Poland. Learn more about the history of Solidarity.

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