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News Supreme Court hears arguments in Microsoft patent infringement case
Supreme Court hears arguments in Microsoft patent infringement case
Jaime Jansen
February 21, 2007 07:04:00 pm

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in Microsoft Corp. v. AT&T Corp. , 05-1056, where the court must decide whether Microsoft should be...

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Mexico to lobby US for immigration reform
Katerina Ossenova
February 21, 2007 04:21:00 pm

Arturo Sarukhan , Mexico's newest ambassador to the US, says his country is launching an intensive lobbying effort to secure an immigration reform agreement between the two nations. The plan includes negotiations between Mexican consulates and US state...

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News Spain court asks to transfer naval officer charged with genocide to Argentina
Spain court asks to transfer naval officer charged with genocide to Argentina
Katerina Ossenova
February 21, 2007 03:51:00 pm

A Spanish judge requested permission from Mexico Wednesday to extradite former Argentine naval officer Ricardo Miguel Cavallo back to Argentina. Cavallo was extradited from Mexico to Spain and has been in Spanish custody since 2003. In January...

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News UK court upholds school Islamic headscarf ban
UK court upholds school Islamic headscarf ban
Joshua Pantesco
February 21, 2007 03:48:00 pm

The UK High Court on Wednesday denied an application for judicial review stemming from a 12-year old Muslim girl's challenge to a public school policy that prevented her from wearing her full-face veil (niqab) [Wikipedia backgrounder; JURIST...

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News France to try 17 Pinochet associates linked to disappearances of French nationals
France to try 17 Pinochet associates linked to disappearances of French nationals
Joshua Pantesco
February 21, 2007 03:31:00 pm

A French judge on Wednesday signed a 191-page indictment against 17 former associates of former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet , charging them with abduction and torture in connection with the disappearance of four French...

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Romania commission reports no official cooperation with CIA rendition program
Katerina Ossenova
February 21, 2007 03:15:00 pm

A Romanian parliamentary commission announced Wednesday that it had found no evidence that Romania cooperated with the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in operating illegal secret prisons and extraordinary rendition flights in Europe, or...

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News European Commission sets record antitrust fine for elevator companies
European Commission sets record antitrust fine for elevator companies
Joshua Pantesco
February 21, 2007 03:06:00 pm

The European Commission (EC) on Wednesday levied a record-breaking antitrust fine against the four biggest elevator and escalator manufacturers in Europe after finding them guilty of restrictive business practices in violation of Article 81 of...

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Zimbabwe police ban political rallies in capital for three months
Katerina Ossenova
February 21, 2007 02:52:00 pm

Police imposed a three-month ban on political rallies and protests Wednesday in the Zimbabwean capital of Harare after a political rally held Sunday by opposition group Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) . Despite a court order ...

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News Russia high court orders retrial for Yukos security chief convicted of contract killings
Russia high court orders retrial for Yukos security chief convicted of contract killings
Joshua Pantesco
February 21, 2007 02:43:00 pm

The Russian Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to overturn the 24-year sentence given to former Yukos security chief Alexei Pichugin for organizing a series of contract killings, including...

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France Senate ducks Armenian genocide bill
Joshua Pantesco
February 21, 2007 01:12:00 pm

Lawmakers in the French Senate have buried a draft bill that would have criminalized any denial that the mass killings of Armenians in Turkey during World War I constituted genocide. The bill has been...

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Supreme Court upheld wartime detention of Japanese-Americans

On December 18, 1944, the US Supreme Court decided Korematsu v. United States, upholding the wartime relocation of Japanese Americans to internment camps. Read Executive Order 9066, issued by President Roosevelt on February 19, 1942, under which the internments were authorized. View photos from the Japanese American internment camps, collected by the University of Utah Library.

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