Border security checks ruling [2nd Circuit] News
Border security checks ruling [2nd Circuit]

Sawsaan Tabbaa et al. v. Michael Chertoff et al., United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, November 26, 2007 [ruling that the US Bureau of Customs and Border Protection did not violate the First and Fourth Amendments by subjecting persons returning to the US from an annual international Muslim religious conference in Canada to lengthy security checks]. Read the full text of the opinion [PDF]. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

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Archibald Cox fired as Watergate prosecutor in the "Saturday Night Massacre"

On October 20, 1973, Solicitor General Robert Bork fired Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox at the direction of President Richard Nixon after Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Assistant Attorney General Ruckelshaus had refused and resigned.