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News SEC chairman scolds corporate lawyers for helping clients evade law
SEC chairman scolds corporate lawyers for helping clients evade law
Jeannie Shawl
March 4, 2005 01:22:00 pm

US Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman William Donaldson said Friday that corporate lawyers should devote more time to helping clients obey the law, rather than evading it. Speaking to a gathering of securities lawyers [PLI...

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International brief ~ France sets date for EU constitution vote
D. Wes Rist
March 4, 2005 11:57:00 am

In Friday's international brief, France has announced that it will hold a national referendum on the European constitution on May 29. France just recently approved an amendment to its constitution to allow such...

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News Bush sets new EPA chief to work on ‘Clear Skies’ bill
Bush sets new EPA chief to work on ‘Clear Skies’ bill
Alexandria Samuel
March 4, 2005 11:50:00 am

President Bush Friday nominated acting Environmental Protection Agency administrator Stephen Johnson to fill the job permanently. In White House remarks, the President said: ... his immediate task is to work with Congress to pass my...

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News US citizen indicted for attempting to sell spy list to Iraq
US citizen indicted for attempting to sell spy list to Iraq
Alexandria Samuel
March 4, 2005 11:14:00 am

A federal grand jury in Indianapolis Indiana has indicted Shaaban Hafiz Ahmad Ali Shaaban on charges he tried to sell the names of US intelligence operatives in Iraq to Saddam Hussein's government. Charges outlined in the indictment include conspiracy,...

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News California judge says journalist shield laws don’t apply to bloggers
California judge says journalist shield laws don’t apply to bloggers
Matthew Shames
March 4, 2005 11:00:00 am

Judge James Kleinberg of the Superior Court of California, Santa Clara County issued a preliminary ruling Thursday holding that three computer industry blogs - PowerPage, Apple Insider, and Think Secret - could not claim the same First...

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Israel’s Sharon rejects call for Gaza referendum
Matthew Shames
March 4, 2005 10:18:00 am

Although heckled by members of his own Likud Party , Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon Thursday announced his final rejection of demands for a national referendum on his Gaza disengagement plan [JURIST...

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FCC chair questions extension of indecency rules
Matthew Shames
March 4, 2005 09:43:00 am

Michael Powell , outgoing Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission , said Thursday that he did not support extending broadcast indecency rules to cable television or satellite televsion or radio. Powell has supported efforts to...

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Martha Stewart leaves prison for 5 months ‘house arrest’
Matthew Shames
March 4, 2005 09:17:00 am

Domestic guru and corporate high-flyer Martha Stewart left the women's prison in Alderson, West Virginia early Friday morning after being discharged at the end of her five month prison sentence for lying to investigators about stock trading. A few...

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US loses WTO appeal on cotton subsidies
Russell Adkins
March 4, 2005 08:52:00 am

Responding to a Brazilian complaint that US subsidies to cotton farmers are driving down world prices and hurting the cotton market, the appeals court of the World Trade Organization Thursday upheld the previous findings of trade judges that the...

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Canada shaken by most Mountie murders since 1800s
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
March 4, 2005 08:50:00 am

Canada's elite Royal Canadian Mounted Police suffered their most casualties since the late 1800s Thursday when four officers were killed in a raid on a suspected marijuana growing operation in Alberta. A fifth man, believed to the the suspect...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

First meeting of the US Supreme Court

On February 1, 1790, the Supreme Court of the United States convened for the first time. The meeting was held at the Merchants' Exchange Building in New York City, then the national capital. Chief Justice John Jay presided over the first Court with five Associate Justices: James Wilson, John Blair, James Iredell, William Cushing, and John Rutledge. However, due to the limitations of 18th-century transportation technology, the meeting was postponed by Jay until the following day. The first meeting was held primarily to organize the Supreme Court. The Justices did not hear their first actual case, Chrisholm v. Georgia, until 1792.

Sir Edward Coke born

Sir Edward Coke, Chief Justice of the King's Bench and author of law reports and commentaries (including, most famously, Coke on Littleton), was born on February 1, 1552. Learn more about Sir Edward Coke.

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