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News Sunnis expected to help write Iraq constitution
Sunnis expected to help write Iraq constitution
Tom Henry
June 6, 2005 09:53:00 am

An official with the parliamentary committee overseeing the drafting of Iraq's permanent constitution said Sunday that up to 35 Sunni Arabs will be listed by their leaders as willing to help draft the new constitution. The 55-member...

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News First case against Saddam stems from 1982 Shiite killings
First case against Saddam stems from 1982 Shiite killings
Tom Henry
June 6, 2005 09:21:00 am

The New York Times reported Monday that the first court case brought against Saddam Hussein in late summer 2005 before the Iraqi Special Tribunal (IST) will relate to the 1982 killings of close to 160...

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News Britain postpones EU constitution referendum indefinitely
Britain postpones EU constitution referendum indefinitely
Tom Henry
June 6, 2005 08:48:00 am

Downing Street confirmed Monday that the UK was postponing indefinitely a referendum on the troubled EU constitution after the charter's rejection by both France and the Netherlands . The vote had been expected for spring 2006....

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News Texas governor signs abortion bill, endorses same-sex marriage ban
Texas governor signs abortion bill, endorses same-sex marriage ban
Tom Henry
June 6, 2005 08:23:00 am

Texas Governor Rick Perry signed a bill Sunday requiring parental consent to abortions for girls under the age of 18 and tighter restrictions on abortions for women who are more than 26 weeks pregnant. Before...

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News Swiss EU vote to test future integration with Europe
Swiss EU vote to test future integration with Europe
Tom Henry
June 4, 2005 04:33:00 pm

Swiss voters are set to determine the future direction of their small country's role in Europe in a referendum Sunday. The Swiss are not voting on the EU Constitution - traditionally-neutral Switzerland is not a member of the Union...

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News Abbas postpones Palestinian vote to resolve election law dispute
Abbas postpones Palestinian vote to resolve election law dispute
Tom Henry
June 4, 2005 04:19:00 pm

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas Saturday issued a decree officially delaying the scheduled July 17 parliamentary elections in the Palestinian Authority to allow time to settle a disagreement over election law changes. Holding up the vote...

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News US rebukes 14 nations over human trafficking
US rebukes 14 nations over human trafficking
Tom Henry
June 4, 2005 03:40:00 pm

In a State Department human trafficking report released Friday the US accused 14 nations of failing to adequately stop the flow of slaves traded into prostitution, child sex work, and forced labor. According to the State...

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News Judge tells deadlocked jurors to continue in Scrushy trial
Judge tells deadlocked jurors to continue in Scrushy trial
Tom Henry
June 4, 2005 03:23:00 pm

After jurors in the trial of former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy told Judge Karon Bowdre Friday that they were unable to reach a verdict, Bowdre told them to continue deliberating, stressing the time and...

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News Appeals court strikes down Virginia late-term abortion ban
Appeals court strikes down Virginia late-term abortion ban
Tom Henry
June 4, 2005 02:52:00 pm

A panel of the US Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals Friday struck down a Virginia law prohibiting a controversial late-term partial-birth abortion procedure, finding it unconstitutional because it lacks an exception to protect a woman's...

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News Kansas high court strikes down state school funding program
Kansas high court strikes down state school funding program
Tom Henry
June 3, 2005 04:25:00 pm

In a long-awaited decision handed down Friday, the Kansas Supreme Court rejected the state's proposed $145 million dollar finance plan for public schools. In late March 2005 lawmakers approved the additional $145 million in state...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Western Allies approve new Germany constitution

On May 12, 1949, the Western allied powers, the United Kingdom, United States, and France, approved the Grundgesetz (Basic Law) as the legal foundation for the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany). The document served as the constitution of West Germany during the Cold War and remains the governing law for the unified Germany today. Learn more about the legal framework of the German government from the Bundestag (Parliament of Germany).

Justice Harry A. Blackmun confirmed

On May 12, 1970, the Senate unanimously confirmed the appointment of Harry A. Blackmun to the United States Supreme Court. Justice Blackmun died in 1999, and was remembered on JURIST by several of his former law clerks. The Harry A. Blackmun Papers were released in 2004 by the Library of Congress.

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