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News Lawsuits filed over NSA domestic wiretaps
Lawsuits filed over NSA domestic wiretaps
Krystal MacIntyre
January 17, 2006 11:11:00 am

A coalition of civil rights groups, led by the American Civil Liberties Union, filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging the Bush administration's warrantless domestic spying program . In the ACLU lawsuit [fact sheet;...

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News Cambodian rights activists released from jail
Cambodian rights activists released from jail
Krystal MacIntyre
January 17, 2006 10:36:00 am

Four Cambodian civil rights leaders arrested on defamation charges were unexpectedly granted bail and released from jail Tuesday. Leaders from the Cambodian Center for Human Rights , along with a journalist and union leader were released...

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News Lawyers for Chinese Gitmo detainees to appeal directly to Supreme Court
Lawyers for Chinese Gitmo detainees to appeal directly to Supreme Court
Krystal MacIntyre
January 17, 2006 09:57:00 am

Lawyers for a group of Chinese Uighur detainees being held by the US at Guantanamo Bay plan to ask the US Supreme Court to hear an appeal of last month's District Court ruling authorizing their continued detention....

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News Records show Iraq detainee abuse probe left incomplete
Records show Iraq detainee abuse probe left incomplete
Krystal MacIntyre
January 13, 2006 11:38:00 am

Pentagon records made public Thursday by the ACLU through ongoing FOIA requests show that the US Army closed a criminal investigation of abuse allegations by an Iraqi detainee last year without...

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News Lawyer says former Iraq deputy PM Aziz seriously ill
Lawyer says former Iraq deputy PM Aziz seriously ill
Krystal MacIntyre
January 13, 2006 11:05:00 am

Former Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz is ailing and may have only weeks to live, lawyer Badia Aref said Thursday, claiming his client is suffering from high blood pressure, cannot walk properly, and is being given...

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News Iran threatens to block nuclear inspections if referred to Security Council
Iran threatens to block nuclear inspections if referred to Security Council
Krystal MacIntyre
January 13, 2006 10:44:00 am

Iran on Friday threatened to block inspections of its nuclear facilities if the UN Security Council confronts it over its nuclear activities. Iran has been voluntarily allowing short-notice International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) ...

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News Federal judge dismisses last Sept. 11 property damage claim against NYC
Federal judge dismisses last Sept. 11 property damage claim against NYC
Krystal MacIntyre
January 13, 2006 10:14:00 am

US District Judge Alvin Hellerstein on Thursday dismissed the final remaining property damage claim against New York City stemming from the Sept. 11 attacks . Associated Electric & Gas Insurance Services Ltd. and five other insurers for...

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News Argentina judge sending Serb war crimes suspect to Hague tribunal
Argentina judge sending Serb war crimes suspect to Hague tribunal
Krystal MacIntyre
January 11, 2006 03:27:00 pm

Argentine judge Jorge Urso has decided to send accused Bosnian Serb war criminal Milan Lukic, arrested in Buenos Aires in August, to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague for trial,...

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News Chile court upholds Pinochet bail in one case,  removes immunity in another
Chile court upholds Pinochet bail in one case, removes immunity in another
Krystal MacIntyre
January 11, 2006 03:03:00 pm

The 23-member Santiago Appeals Court Wednesday upheld a lower court ruling granting former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet bail, but at the same time stripped him of immunity an additional human rights case,...

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News Spanish prosecutor charges Argentine naval officer with genocide
Spanish prosecutor charges Argentine naval officer with genocide
Krystal MacIntyre
January 11, 2006 01:42:00 pm

Spanish authorities have charged former Argentine naval officer Ricardo Miguel Cavallo with genocide for his involvement in the disappearance of hundreds of people during a 1976 Argentine military coup. Papers published Wednesday allege that between 20,000 and...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

28 countries unite against Axis Powers

On January 2, 1942, twenty-eight countries formally agreed not to make peace with the Axis Powers separately. At the time, all twenty-eight were fighting against the Axis as Allies in World War II. The agreement was part of the Declaration by the United Nations, signed the previous day. In December of 1941, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt referred to this group of allies as the "United Nations."

US government agents arrested thousands in Palmer raids

On January 2, 1920, over 500 government agents acting on the direction of US Attorney General Mitchell Palmer carried out a massive counter-terror operation in 33 US cities, arresting between six and ten thousand aliens suspected of Communism, radicalism and anarchism. The "Palmer Raids" and the detentions and deportation proceedings that followed them were denounced by a number of prominent lawyers and judges who later established the American Civil Liberties Union. Read an excerpt from Attorney General Palmer's 1920 article, The Case Against the 'Reds' and learn more about the Palmer Raids and the Red Scare of 1919-20.

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