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News Rights group flags upcoming Uganda election as unfair
Rights group flags upcoming Uganda election as unfair
Nishat Hasan
February 14, 2006 07:03:00 pm

Human Rights Watch has accused Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni of "playing dirty tricks" to intimidate voters in the upcoming elections on Feb. 23. Principal opposition leader Kizza Besigye is facing criminal charges in civil...

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News Environmental brief ~ US FWS proposes pulling bald eagle from endangered list
Environmental brief ~ US FWS proposes pulling bald eagle from endangered list
Tom Henry
February 14, 2006 05:40:00 pm

Leading Tuesday's environmental law news, the US Fish and Wildlife Service has reopened the public comment period on its original 1999 proposal to remove the bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) from the federal...

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News Wal-Mart ordered to carry emergency contraceptive pills in Massachusetts
Wal-Mart ordered to carry emergency contraceptive pills in Massachusetts
Andrew Wood
February 14, 2006 04:54:00 pm

The Massachusetts Board of Pharmacy on Tuesday ordered the state's 44 Wal-Marts and 4 Sam's Club stores to carry emergency contraception pills at their pharmacies. Previously Wal-Mart only carried the "morning after" pill in Illinois,...

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News South Dakota governor signs funeral protest ban into law
South Dakota governor signs funeral protest ban into law
Andrew Wood
February 14, 2006 04:03:00 pm

South Dakota governor Mike Rounds has signed into law a bill limiting protests during funerals. SB 156 was passed in response to recent picketing at the funerals of US soldiers who died in...

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News Former Nepal prime minister released from prison
Former Nepal prime minister released from prison
Andrew Wood
February 14, 2006 03:11:00 pm

Former Nepal prime minister Sher Bahadur Deuba was released from prison Tuesday in the wake of Monday's ruling by the Nepal Supreme Court declaring the Royal Commission for Corruption Control (RCCC) set up by Nepal's...

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News UK parliamentary panel says control orders may violate Europe rights treaty
UK parliamentary panel says control orders may violate Europe rights treaty
Holly Manges Jones
February 14, 2006 02:31:00 pm

A UK parliamentary report released Tuesday concludes that British control orders confining and/or regulating the conduct of suspected terrorists who cannot be prosecuted in courts may violate the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) . Eighteen...

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News Cheney cited for breaking hunting law
Cheney cited for breaking hunting law
Holly Manges Jones
February 14, 2006 02:11:00 pm

US Vice President Dick Cheney has received a citation for breaking a Texas hunting law by not having the proper stamp giving him permission to shoot quail. The warning was issued by the Texas Parks and Wildlife...

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News Canada Muslim groups seek charges for Muhammad cartoons publication
Canada Muslim groups seek charges for Muhammad cartoons publication
Chris Buell
February 14, 2006 01:57:00 pm

The Islamic Supreme Council of Canada (ISCC) has filed a complaint against the Canadian Western Standard magazine over its republication of Danish cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad. Other Canadian media have refused...

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News Yemen denies US detainee interrogation request over sovereignty concerns
Yemen denies US detainee interrogation request over sovereignty concerns
Holly Manges Jones
February 14, 2006 01:46:00 pm

Yemen officials have denied an American request to interrogate detainees taken into custody after the escape of 23 prisoners , including suspected al Qaeda members, from a Yemen prison earlier this month. A Yemen security official,...

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News Haiti presidential candidate alleges fraud, promises to challenge results
Haiti presidential candidate alleges fraud, promises to challenge results
Holly Manges Jones
February 14, 2006 01:01:00 pm

Haitian presidential candidate Rene Preval , currently leading in the official count from the February 7 election with 48.76 percent of the votes , said Tuesday that the poll was plagued...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Justinian I issues Corpus Juris Civilis

On April 7, 529 Byzantine Emperor Justinian I issued the first draft of Corpus Juris Civilis (Body of Civil Law). The Justinian Code represented a revival of Roman Law and a compilation of laws for the Byzantine Empire. It became the foundation of Canon Law in the Catholic Church and Civil Law in modern Europe. Learn more about the Corpus Juris Civilis.

Supreme Court ruled on possession of obscene materials

On April 7, 1969, the US Supreme Court ruled in Stanley v. Georgia that laws prohibiting private possession of obscene materials were unconstitutional.

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