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News Cheney urged NSA to wiretap domestic calls, emails without warrants: NYT
Cheney urged NSA to wiretap domestic calls, emails without warrants: NYT
Joshua Pantesco
May 14, 2006 10:45:00 am

US Vice President Dick Cheney and his legal advisor and current chief of staff David S. Addington argued after Sept. 11 that the National Security Agency should listen in on domestic phone calls and emails...

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News France protesters rally against strict immigration proposal
France protesters rally against strict immigration proposal
Joshua Pantesco
May 14, 2006 10:10:00 am

Over 10,000 pro-immigrant protesters marched through Paris on Saturday to demonstrate against a proposed immigration bill that would effectively allow border officials to choose who will be admitted into the country. Specifically, the bill creates...

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News Moussaoui appeal notice [US DC]
Moussaoui appeal notice [US DC]
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
May 13, 2006 05:11:00 pm

Notice of appeal by Zacarias Moussaoui of order denying motion by Zacarias Moussaoui to withdraw guilty plea, and judgment, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, May 12, 2006. Read the full text of Moussaoui's notice of...

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News Thailand courts call for election commission to resign before new vote
Thailand courts call for election commission to resign before new vote
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
May 13, 2006 04:19:00 pm

A spokesman for Thailand's three highest courts Saturday called for the current members of the country's much-maligned Election Commission to resign ahead of new elections ordered earlier this week by the country's Constitutional Court after...

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News UK government mulls ‘public safety’ exception to Human Rights Act
UK government mulls ‘public safety’ exception to Human Rights Act
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
May 13, 2006 03:47:00 pm

UK Lord Chancellor Lord Falconer told the BBC Saturday that the government was considering introducing legislation that would prevent the Human Rights Act - the UK statute that took effect in 2000 implementing the European...

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News Microsoft antitrust judgment extension application [US DOJ]
Microsoft antitrust judgment extension application [US DOJ]
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
May 13, 2006 02:24:00 pm

US v. Microsoft Corporation, Joint Status Report on Microsoft's Compliance with the Final Judgments, US Department of Justice, May 12, 2006 [asking for a two-year extension of a Microsoft antitrust order because the software giant has been slow to supply...

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News Top Iraq judge’s son killed by Baghdad gunmen in latest attack on jurists
Top Iraq judge’s son killed by Baghdad gunmen in latest attack on jurists
Joshua Pantesco
May 13, 2006 12:54:00 pm

The son of a top Iraqi judge was killed by gunmen Saturday and his body dumped in the mostly Sunni Baghdad neighborhood of Azamiyah. Twenty-two year old Ahmed Midhat al-Mahmoud was himself a lawyer and died along with two...

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News Moussaoui appeals life sentence, refusal of new trial
Moussaoui appeals life sentence, refusal of new trial
Jeannie Shawl
May 13, 2006 11:42:00 am

September 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui has appealed both his life sentence on conspiracy charges and US District Judge Leonie Brinkema's decision to deny his motion to withdraw his guilty plea...

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News Russia jails two ex-Guantanamo detainees for 2005 pipeline attack
Russia jails two ex-Guantanamo detainees for 2005 pipeline attack
Joshua Pantesco
May 13, 2006 10:07:00 am

A Russian court in Tatarstan Friday sentenced two former Guantanamo Bay detainees and another man to between 11 and 15 years in prison for their involvement in a January 2005 gas pipeline explosion on...

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News DOJ seeks to extend remedial order in Microsoft antitrust settlement
DOJ seeks to extend remedial order in Microsoft antitrust settlement
Joshua Pantesco
May 13, 2006 10:03:00 am

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has asked a federal court in Washington for a two-year extension of a Microsoft antitrust order because the software giant has been slow to supply...

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