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Terrorist organization service ruling [9th Circuit]

August 24, 2009 09:08:00 PM

Humanitarian Law Project, et al. v. US Treasury Department, et al., US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, August 24, 2009 [ruling against a Humanitarian Law Project challenge to former President George W. Bush's Executive Order 13224, which prohibits...

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Republic of Ireland Act enters force

On April 18, 1949, the Republic of Ireland Act went into force, creating a republic in the state of Ireland. The Act repealed the Executive Authority Act, which had given governing authority in Ireland to the King of England.

Treason charges against poet Ezra Pound dropped

On April 18, 1958, treason charges against American poet Ezra Pound, first laid in 1943 in connection with his wartime broadcasts for the Italian Fascist government of Benito Mussolini, were dropped.

Read Jonas Doberman, The Treason Debate: Ezra Pound and his Rome Radio Broadcasts[PDF].

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