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News Specter predicts Gonzales resignation
Specter predicts Gonzales resignation
Gabriel Haboubi
May 17, 2007 12:37:00 pm

Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) , the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, predicted Thursday that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales will resign from his post at the conclusion of current investigations into the allegedly-political firings...

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Acquitted Newmont mining executive files defamation suit against New York Times
Gabriel Haboubi
May 16, 2007 03:55:00 pm

US mining executive Richard Ness , the regional chief executive of Denver-based Newmont Mining Corporation , filed a civil lawsuit against the New York Times (NYT) in Indonesia Wednesday. Last month...

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News GOP senator calls for Gonzales resignation following surveillance revelations
GOP senator calls for Gonzales resignation following surveillance revelations
Gabriel Haboubi
May 16, 2007 03:07:00 pm

Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE) called for the resignation of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales Wednesday, a day after hearing testimony from former US Deputy Attorney General James Comey regarding an attempt by...

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News Rwanda rights advocate probing judge’s rape role  arrested for genocide complicity
Rwanda rights advocate probing judge’s rape role arrested for genocide complicity
Gabriel Haboubi
May 16, 2007 01:46:00 pm

A senior official in a Rwanda human rights organization was arrested Wednesday in the capital of Kigali after being implicated by a local gacaca court in the 1994 genocide. The official, Francois-Xavier Byuma, is...

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Federal judge OKs autopsy on executed inmate despite religious objections
Gabriel Haboubi
May 16, 2007 01:33:00 pm

A US district judge gave the State of Tennessee permission Wednesday to perform an autopsy on executed Seventh Day Adventist Philip Workman , despite Workman's pre-execution objections to the procedure on the grounds that it would conflict with...

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Top Pakistan lawyer defends chief justice suspension at high court hearing
Gabriel Haboubi
May 16, 2007 12:40:00 pm

Syed Sharifuddin Pirzada , one of Pakistan's most renowned lawyers, presented the government's case against ousted Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry Wednesday to a panel of Supreme Court judges....

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Germany Constitutional Court approves limits on unnegotiated legal fees
Gabriel Haboubi
May 15, 2007 04:26:00 pm

Germany's Federal Constitutional Court Tuesday upheld a 2004 statute limiting lawyers fees unless payment is negotiated beforehand. The court ruled that because the lawyers are...

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Abu Ghraib court-martial postponed until August as charges reduced
Gabriel Haboubi
May 15, 2007 03:22:00 pm

A military judge Tuesday postponed to August 20 the court-martial of the only officer charged with abuse in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal. Lt. Col. Steven Lee Jordan , who...

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Gonzales says he relied on McNulty recommendations in US Attorney firings
Gabriel Haboubi
May 15, 2007 02:44:00 pm

Embattled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales told reporters Tuesday that the recommendations of resigning Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty were key in the firing of nine US Attorneys last year...

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Tyco settles shareholder lawsuits for $3 billion
Gabriel Haboubi
May 15, 2007 01:37:00 pm

Tyco International said Tuesday that it has reached an agreement to settle most of the class actions pending against it by investors who were harmed by the actions of the company's former...

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Sandra Day O'Connor confirmed as first female US Supreme Court justice

On September 21, 1981, the US Senate approved the nomination of Sandra Day O’Connor to the US Supreme Court by a vote of 99-0, making her the first female Supreme Court justice.

Leran more about Justice O'Connor from the OYEZ website at Northwestern University.

Ferdinand Marcos declares martial law in the Philippines

On September 21, 1972, President Ferdinand Marcos signed Proclamation 1081, implementing martial law in the Philippines. Marcos used the proclamation not only to suppress a communist insurgency but to eliminate political opponents as well. He remained in power until he was forced from office and into exile by the People Power Revolution in 1986.

Sandra Day O'Connor confirmed as the first female US Supreme Court justice

On September 21, 1981, the US Senate approved the nomination of Sandra Day O’Connor to the US Supreme Court by a vote of 99-0, making her the first female Supreme Court justice.

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