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News Six Supreme Court justices are millionaires
Six Supreme Court justices are millionaires
Holly Manges Jones
June 11, 2005 10:39:00 am

Six justices of the US Supreme Court held over $1 million in assets in 2004, according to new annual financial disclosure statements released Friday. O'Connor, Breyer, Ginsburg, Scalia, Souter, and Stevens are the...

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News Venezuela gives US evidence on Cuban exile
Venezuela gives US evidence on Cuban exile
Holly Manges Jones
June 11, 2005 10:06:00 am

Venezuela delivered evidence to the US State Department Friday related to Cuban exile Luis Posada Carriles who is sought by Caracas for allegedly blowing up a Cuban plane as part of a terrorist attack in...

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News Republicans walk out of House hearing on Patriot Act
Republicans walk out of House hearing on Patriot Act
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
June 10, 2005 07:27:00 pm

GOP House Judiciary Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner abruptly adjourned a Committee hearing on the Patriot Act Friday, leaving Democrats objecting into dead air after their microphones had been turned off. The hearing had been called at...

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News States brief ~ Florida judge dismisses school districts’ funding suit
States brief ~ Florida judge dismisses school districts’ funding suit
Rachel Felton
June 10, 2005 05:52:00 pm

In Friday's report on law in the states, Circuit Judge P. Kevin Davey of Florida's 11th Judicial District today dismissed a lawsuit filed by five of Florida's larger school boards over changes in the way the state's...

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News International brief ~ ICC prosecutor says Sudan must comply with Darfur probe
International brief ~ ICC prosecutor says Sudan must comply with Darfur probe
D. Wes Rist
June 10, 2005 04:47:00 pm

Leading Friday's international brief, ICC Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo has said the the Khartoum government in Sudan has no choice but cooperate with the recently opened investigation by the International Criminal Court into...

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News Pakistani court frees 12 men in gang-rape case
Pakistani court frees 12 men in gang-rape case
Tom Henry
June 10, 2005 03:57:00 pm

The Lahore High Court in Pakistan released 12 men Friday with ties to a highly publicized gang-rape, including six men who were convicted of rape and 6 members of the village council. The case centers around Mukhtar...

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News Illinois pharmacist sues to avoid filling ‘morning-after pill’ prescriptions
Illinois pharmacist sues to avoid filling ‘morning-after pill’ prescriptions
Tom Henry
June 10, 2005 02:57:00 pm

Illinois pharmacist Luke Vander Bleek has filed suit to oppose a state order that the emergency contraceptive "morning-after pill" be made available immediately. Vander Bleek, a Roman Catholic who owns two pharmacies, claims that the Illinois Health Care Right...

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News FTC settles monopoly complaint, clears way for $18B energy merger
FTC settles monopoly complaint, clears way for $18B energy merger
Kate Heneroty
June 10, 2005 02:46:00 pm

The US Federal Trade Commission voted 4-0 Friday to settle an anti-competitive practices complaint against Chevron , allowing it to to acquire the Unocol energy company for $18 billion....

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News Italian referendum on fertility, stem cells, likely to fail
Italian referendum on fertility, stem cells, likely to fail
Kate Heneroty
June 10, 2005 02:21:00 pm

An Italian referendum scheduled for June 12-13 on whether to ease the country's restrictive laws concerning fertility treatment and stem cell research and to redefine the legal language that defines the beginning of life at conception seems...

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News Uganda high court upholds death penalty but limits scope
Uganda high court upholds death penalty but limits scope
Tom Henry
June 10, 2005 02:12:00 pm

Uganda's Court of Appeals Friday dismissed an appeal by death row inmates to ban capital punishment in the country but did find that laws mandating the death penalty for certain crimes are unconstitutional and require Parliamentary amendment....

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Soviet spy Klaus Fuchs sentenced to 14 years in UK prison

On March 1, 1950, German-British atomic scientist Klaus Fuchs was sentenced to 14 years in prison by a UK court for passing British and American nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union. Read a biography of Fuchs from PBS.

Civil Rights Act of 1875 became law

On March 1, 1875, the Civil Rights Act of 1875 became law. It declared that all persons within the jurisdiction of the United States shall be entitled to the full and equal enjoyment of the accommodations, advantages, facilities, and privileges of inns, public conveyances on land or water, theaters, and other places of public amusement, subject only to the conditions and limitations established by law. In 1883, in the Civil Rights Cases, the US Supreme Court ruled the 1875 Act unconstitutional and unauthorized by either the 13th or 14th Amendments. Congress passed no more civil rights legislation until 1957.

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