Legal opinion on transfer of detainees from Iraq under Geneva IV [US DOJ] News
Legal opinion on transfer of detainees from Iraq under Geneva IV [US DOJ]

Draft legal opinion for White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales on the applicability of the Fourth Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War to detainees held by the US in occupied Iraq [concluding that it does not apply to non-Iraqi detainees], US Department of Justice, Office of Legal Counsel, March 19, 2004 [disclosed October 25, 2004]. Read the memo here [PDF]. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

THIS DAY @ LAW

Rosa Parks arrested for not giving up bus seat to white passenger

On December 1, 1955, civil rights activist Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Her action prompted a year-long boycott of the Montgomery public transit system, which only came to an end after bus segregation was ruled illegal by the federal courts. Read a brief biography of Rosa Parks from the Rosa Parks Library and Museum at Troy State Univerity, Montgomery. In 1999 Ms. Parks received the background report on the Pacifica News Network.

World AIDS Day

On December 1, 1988, World AIDS Day was observed for the first time.