August 2007 - Page 31 of 34 - JURIST

House Judiciary Committee approves journalist shield law

August 2, 2007 01:34:00 pm

The US House Judiciary Committee approved new legislation on Wednesday shielding reporters from being compelled to disclose confidential sources. Under the bill, journalists could not be forced by prosecutors to reveal their informants unless...

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UK counter-terror official misled public about subway shooting of Brazilian: report

Brett Murphy

August 2, 2007 01:29:00 pm

The UK Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) issued a report Thursday on the shooting death of Jean Charles de Menezes , an innocent Brazilian man mistaken for a terrorist by police in...

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China sentences 31 in slave labor scandal

Michael Sung

August 2, 2007 01:16:00 pm

China's Shanxi province High People's Court announced the conviction of 31 defendants in 18 separate trials for their involvement in the use of slave labor at various brick kilns in the Shanxi and Henan provinces Thursday. The defendants were...

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FISC limits US government ability to track foreign terror suspects over US networks

Brett Murphy

August 2, 2007 01:03:00 pm

The US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court restricted the government's monitoring of e-mail and telephone conversations of suspected terrorists in foreign countries in a ruling publicly disclosed Thursday. According to US House Minority Leader John...

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Rove fails to appear at Senate Judiciary Commitee hearing on US Attorney firings

Brett Murphy

August 2, 2007 12:33:00 pm

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove refused to testify in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday during the committee's seventh hearing on the Justice Department's firing of US Attorneys [JURIST news...

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UK opposition leader calls for referendum on EU reform treaty

Michael Sung

August 2, 2007 12:28:00 pm

UK Conservative Party leader William J. Hague repeated his earlier call for a general referendum on the proposed EU Reform Treaty during an interview with BBC Radio 4 Thursday, saying that...

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Australia control order ruling [Australia HC]

August 2, 2007 12:22:00 pm

Joseph Terrence Thomas v. Graham Mowbray, Federal Magistrate & ORS Defendants, High Court of Australia, August 2, 2007 . Read...

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Menezes subway shooting report [UK IPCC]

August 2, 2007 12:09:00 pm

Stockwell Two: An investigation into complaints about the Metropolitan Police Service's handling of public statements following the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes on 22 July 2005, Independent Police Complaints Commission, August 2, 2007 [clearing London Metropolitan Police Commissioner Ian...

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Katrina flood damage ruling [5th Circuit]

August 2, 2007 11:54:00 am

Richard Vanderbrook, et al. v. Unitrin Preferred Insurance Company, et al., US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, August 2, 2007 . Read...

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Sierra Leone war crimes court convicts two former militia leaders

Michael Sung

August 2, 2007 11:54:00 am

The Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) convicted two former leaders of Sierra Leone's Civil Defense Forces militia Thursday, finding Moinina Fofana and Allieu Kondewa guilty on four counts ...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

President Carter authorizes Chrysler bailout

On January 7, 1980, President Jimmy Carter signed the Chrysler Corporation Loan Guarantee Act of 1979 (Public Law 96-185) into law. The act granted to Chrysler $1.5 billion to save the company from bankruptcy. Twenty-eight years later in 2008, President George W. Bush authorized $17.4 billion to again bailout Chrysler in addition to the other two major American automobile manufacturers, Ford and General Motors.

Anglo-Irish Treaty ratified

On January 7, 1922, Dáil Éireann ratified the Anglo-Irish Treaty. Signed on December 6 of the preceding year, the treaty ended the Irish War of Independence against Great Britain. The British Parliament voted to approve the treaty on December 16, 1921. Ratification was completed on January 14, 1922, when the House of Commons of Southern Ireland became the third and final party to approve the document. The Anglo-Irish treaty effectively split the island into its current state. While the lower counties of Ireland were granted autonomy under the treaty, Britain insisted that the six Protestant counties of Northern Ireland be allowed to determine their own future. On the day after the treaty was signed, these counties elected to remain part of Great Britain. Today, they remain part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

New York State Assembly expels five socialist assemblymen

The New York State Assembly, the state's lower house, expelled five duly elected assemblymen from the Socialist Party over their political affiliation on January 7, 1920. The US was in the midst of the first Red Scare, a panic resulting from the ascendancy of the Bolsheviks in Russia, which resulted in the repression of socialists across the country. The result of the expulsion vote was 140-6. Thus, Assemblymen August Claessens, Samuel A. DeWitt, Samuel Orr, Charles Solomon and Louis Waldman were removed from their posts. Learn more about the expulsions from the Historical Society of the Courts of the State of New York.

Rehnquist sworn in as US Supreme Court Justice

On January 7, 1972, the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist was sworn in as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Read a short profile of Chief Justice Rehnquist here.