Leading Wednesday's states brief, the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled today that the town of Greenwich must release its computer database of aerial photographs and maps to the public. The Supreme Court rejected the town's argument that the...
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States brief ~ CT Supreme Court orders town to release aerial photos, maps to public
Mexican high court rules ex-president can face trial for student massacre
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Military, DOJ officials defend Gitmo practices at Senate hearing on detainees
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Schiavo autopsy report [FL Pinellas County Medical Examiner]
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Testimony on detainees [US Senate Judiciary Committee]
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Schiavo autopsy reveals brain damage consistent with persistent vegetative state
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Tribunal questions Saddam half-brother
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Rights groups warns of killings, mass arrests in Ethiopia at vote fraud protests
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Bosnian Serb convicted of war crimes sentenced to six years
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Senate dispute expected as FDA nominee passes committee
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The Mexican Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that former president Luis Echeverria can be prosecuted for the deaths of student demonstrators killed in 1971. A panel of judges voted 3-2 to allow Echeverria and...
Senior US military and Justice Department officials defended Guantanamo prison and US policy towards terror detainees Wednesday at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. Citing continued uncertainty about their status, Committee Chairman Arlen Specter (R-PA) urged Congress to...
Terri Schiavo autopsy report, Florida District Six Medical Examiner, June 15, 2005 [showing that Terri Schiavo had a severely "atrophied" brain that weighed less than half of what a normal brain should weigh and was irreversibly damaged, a condition consistent...
Hearing on Detainees, US Senate Judiciary Committee, June 15, 2005 . Excerpt from the testimony of Professor Stephen Schulhofer, New York University School of Law:For half a century, the United...
An autopsy report released Wednesday showed that Terri Schiavo had a severely "atrophied" brain that weighed less than half of what a normal brain should weigh and was irreversibly damaged. Pinellas-Pasco Medical Examiner Jon...
The Iraqi Special Tribunal (IST) Wednesday questioned Sabawi Ibrahim al-Hassan , a half-brother of Saddam Hussein, in connection with crimes committed against the Kurds in the early 1980s. The tribunal questioned Hussein himself earlier...
New York-based monitoring group Human Rights Watch reported Wednesday that thousands of people have been arrested and some 36 killed across Ethiopia in skirmishes with police during election-related protests. HRW said that the deaths occured...
The Sarajevo cantonal court in Bosnia-Herzegovina sentenced Serb Goran Vasic to six years in prison on Wednesday for his role in the cruel and inhumane treatment of prisoners at a detention camp near Sarajevo in 1992. Vasic...
A Senate committee approved the nomination of Lester Crawford as the new head of the US Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday, sending the issue to the full Senate for a final vote. A number...
