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News Egypt rights groups condemn defamation charges against judges
Egypt rights groups condemn defamation charges against judges
Lisl Brunner
February 20, 2006 10:29:00 am

Human rights groups have condemned the Egyptian Higher Judiciary Council's decision to strip three judges of immunity after they protested voting irregularities during the December parliamentary elections. Members of a group known as the Judges...

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News Ninth Circuit refuses stay of execution for California death row inmate
Ninth Circuit refuses stay of execution for California death row inmate
Lisl Brunner
February 20, 2006 10:02:00 am

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Sunday refused to stay the execution of Michael Morales , but in a second decision also approved the presence of a doctor at his...

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News British historian pleads guilty in Austria to denying Holocaust
British historian pleads guilty in Austria to denying Holocaust
Lisl Brunner
February 20, 2006 09:38:00 am

British historian David Irving has pleaded guilty before an Austrian criminal court to charges of denying the World War II Holocaust . Irving, 68, was arrested in Austria in November...

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Interrogation issues memo [US Navy GC]
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
February 20, 2006 09:30:00 am

Statement for the Record: Office of General Counsel Involvement in Interrogation Issues, US Navy General Counsel Alberto J. Mora, July 7, 2004 ....

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News Belgium first country to ban cluster bombs
Belgium first country to ban cluster bombs
Lisl Brunner
February 20, 2006 09:03:00 am

Belgium has become the first country in the world to ban the manufacture and use of cluster bombs following passage of legislation by a sound majority of its lower house of parliament. The...

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News Sudan president says no extradition of Darfur war crimes suspects
Sudan president says no extradition of Darfur war crimes suspects
jstaff
February 20, 2006 08:55:00 am

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has again said that his country refuses to extradite any Sudanese citizens for prosecution by the International Criminal Court . In remarks made during this weekend's celebration of the golden...

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Frist says changes to surveillance legislation unnecessary
jstaff
February 20, 2006 08:24:00 am

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) said Sunday that existing legislation governing domestic surveillance does not need to be rewritten or updated. Appearing on CBS News' Face the Nation, Frist also said that he...

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European ambassadors call for Guantanamo Bay base closure
jstaff
February 20, 2006 07:47:00 am

The French, German, and British ambassadors to the US on Sunday called for the United States to close the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, with French Ambassador Jean-David Levitte going so far as to call...

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International brief ~ Israel imposes sanctions against Hamas
D. Wes Rist
February 20, 2006 06:45:00 am

Leading Monday's international brief, the Israeli Cabinet has agreed to impose a hefty series of sanctions against the Palestinian Authority (PA) unless the ruling party of Hamas commits to non-violence and drops its call...

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Former Navy lawyer warned officials that legal theories could breed detainee abuse
Katerina Ossenova
February 19, 2006 04:10:00 pm

Former US Navy General Counsel Alberto J. Mora warned the Pentagon as early as 2002 that legal arguments advanced by Bush administration officials seeking to avoid international prohibitions against torture were wrong and could lead to the...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

US Congress approves first Patent Act

On April 10, 1790, Congress approved the US's first Patent Act. The Patent Act of 1790 allowed inventors to maintain "sole and exclusive right and liberty of making, constructing, using and vending to others" a patented invention for fourteen years. The Act furthermore created the US Patent Board, the precursor to the modern US Patent Office. Read the current US Patent Law from the Cornell University Law School.

Hugo Grotius born

Hugo Grotius, Dutch jurist, statesman and father of international law was born in Delft, Holland, on April 10, 1583. His best-known work is De Jure Belli ac Pacis (On the Law of War and Peace), which he published in 1625.

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