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News Reid urges quick return to immigration debate in Senate
Reid urges quick return to immigration debate in Senate
Elizabeth Schultz
April 13, 2006 10:40:00 am

US Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has called for a quick return to the debate on immigration reform when the Senate reconvenes on April 25. In a letter to Senate Majority Leader...

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News Dubrovnik siege Serb commander trial fitness ruling [ICTY]
Dubrovnik siege Serb commander trial fitness ruling [ICTY]
April 13, 2006 10:18:00 am

Prosecutor v. Vladimir Kovacevic, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, April 12, 2006 . Read the full text of the decision . Reported...

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News Italian judges check ballots in disputed national election
Italian judges check ballots in disputed national election
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
April 13, 2006 09:43:00 am

Judges in Italy Thursday began examining some 43,000 problematic ballots to see whether including them in official returns might change the result of a national parliamentary election held April 9-10 that seems to have given former center-left...

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News International brief ~ US, UK introduce Sudan sanctions list to Security Council
International brief ~ US, UK introduce Sudan sanctions list to Security Council
D. Wes Rist
April 13, 2006 09:43:00 am

Leading Thursday's international brief, the US and UK representatives to the UN Security Council introduced a list of four individuals in Sudan that they allege have taken active steps to frustrate the attempted peace process...

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News ICTY rules Serb commander in Dubrovnik siege unfit to stand trial
ICTY rules Serb commander in Dubrovnik siege unfit to stand trial
Elizabeth Schultz
April 13, 2006 09:13:00 am

Vladimir Kovacevic , a Serbian commander charged with war crimes for his part in the 1991 attack on the Croatian city of Dubrovnik, has been declared unfit to stand trial because of...

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News Control orders fair trial ruling [UK HC]
Control orders fair trial ruling [UK HC]
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
April 12, 2006 11:45:00 pm

MB, Re EWHC 1000 (Admin), UK High Court, April 12, 2006 [ruling that a control order imposed to restrain a suspected terrorist under the UK's Prevention of Terrorism Act breached the suspect's human rights, in particular his right to...

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News Flight 93 cockpit voice recorder transcript [US DC]
Flight 93 cockpit voice recorder transcript [US DC]
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
April 12, 2006 11:36:00 pm

Transcript of cockpit voice recording from United Airlines Flight 93, hijacked September 11, 2001; introduced as prosecution evidence in the sentencing trial of Zacarias Moussaoui, April 12, 2006. Read the full text of the transcript . Reported in JURIST's Paper...

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News Massachusetts mandatory health insurance act [MA]
Massachusetts mandatory health insurance act [MA]
April 12, 2006 11:15:00 pm

House No. 4850, An Act Providing Access to Affordable, Quality, Accountable Health Care, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, signed into law by Governor Mitt Romney April 12, 2006 ....

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Australian Guantanamo detainee UK citizenship appeal [UK CA]
April 12, 2006 11:10:00 pm

Secretary of State for the Home Department v. Hicks, Supreme Court of Judicature Court of Appeal (Civil Division), April 12, 2006 . Read the...

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Supreme Court says unpublished opinions can be cited in federal courts
James M Yoch Jr
April 12, 2006 08:27:00 pm

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday approved Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 32.1 , which permits attorneys to cite unpublished opinions in the federal circuit courts. The new rule does not dictate...

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ICTY indictes former Yugoslavia President Slobodan Milošević

On May 27, 1999, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) indicted Slobodan Milošević for war crimes and crimes against humanity. Learn more about the trial of Slobodan Milošević from the ICTY.

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