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Leahy calls for DOJ clarification on Google subpoena

January 26, 2006 08:51:00 AM

Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) , ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has asked US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to clarify the steps being taken to protect the privacy of American citizens after a Department of Justice (DOJ)...

January 20, 2006 08:05:00 AM

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed a motion in federal court seeking to compel Internet search giant Google to comply with a subpoena issued last summer. The subpoena requests that Google...

June 17, 2005 05:01:00 PM

MasterCard announced late Friday that a security lapse at CardSystems Solutions , a third-party processing company in Tuscon, Arizona, has potentially exposed more than 40 million cards to fraud, and that it has notified banks of...

February 24, 2005 03:00:00 PM

Leading Thursday's corporations and securities law news, Senator Arlen Specter announced the Senate Judiciary Committee will start an investigation into how criminals were able to gain access to at least 145,000 consumer profiles...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

President Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus

On April 27, 1861, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus in Maryland and parts of several midwestern states during the American Civil War. Lincoln took this action to address draft riots and the threat of secession by Union states bordering the Confederacy. The President maintained his suspension even after it was overturned by the federal judiciary in Ex parte Merryman 17 F.Cas. 144 (1861). Learn more about Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus.

War crimes trials of WWII Japanese leaders began

On April 27, 1946, the International Military Tribunal for the Far East began its trials in Tokyo, Japan, ruling on the indictments of former Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo and 27 associates.

Learn more about the International Military Tribunal for the Far East.