Revised internet piracy bill [France NA] News
Revised internet piracy bill [France NA]

Projet de loi…. relatif a la protection penale de la propriete litteraire et artistique sur Internet (Bill… on the criminal protection of literary and artistic property on the Internet), French National Assembly, September 15, 2009 [revising the original draft, thereby granting courts discretion to suspend a user's Internet services in response to the Constitutional Council's ruling that the power to restrict the fundamental right of accessing the Internet should not be entrusted to an administrative authority].

Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Latest commentary available here. JURIST has more on the bill.

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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.

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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.

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