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News Yemen court bans two journalists for reprinting Muhammad cartoons
Yemen court bans two journalists for reprinting Muhammad cartoons
Bernard Hibbitts
December 13, 2006 11:53:00 am

A court in Yemen Wednesday prohibited the editor of Yemen's al-Hurriya newspaper and one of its reporters from writing for one month and also imposed a four-month suspended sentence on them for demeaning Islam by reprinting cartoons depicting the...

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News Milosevic trial study recommends changes to war crimes process
Milosevic trial study recommends changes to war crimes process
Bernard Hibbitts
December 13, 2006 11:24:00 am

A Human Rights Watch study of the five-year trial of late Yugoslav ex-president Slobodan Milosevic released Wednesday has proposed making changes in future national and international war crimes trial procedures...

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News UK Law Lords rule police breached rights of Iraq war protestors by blocking buses
UK Law Lords rule police breached rights of Iraq war protestors by blocking buses
Bernard Hibbitts
December 13, 2006 10:53:00 am

A panel of the UK Law Lords , the legal members of the House of Lords who constitute the UK's highest court, ruled unanimously Wednesday that British police infringed the rights of anti-war protestors traveling to a...

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News ICTR convicts Rwandan Catholic priest of genocide
ICTR convicts Rwandan Catholic priest of genocide
Bernard Hibbitts
December 13, 2006 10:14:00 am

The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda Wednesday convicted a Roman Catholic priest for committing genocide and extermination during the mass killings of Tutsis and moderate Hutus that swept the central...

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News Ohio lawmakers override veto of new state gun law preempting local weapons bans
Ohio lawmakers override veto of new state gun law preempting local weapons bans
Bernard Hibbitts
December 13, 2006 09:55:00 am

Members of the Ohio Senate voted 21-12 Tuesday to override outgoing Ohio Governor Robert Taft's veto of a revised concealed-carry gun law that Taft claimed would preempt local gun-related legislation in some...

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News Israel high court allows Palestinians injured by IDF to sue for compensation
Israel high court allows Palestinians injured by IDF to sue for compensation
Bernard Hibbitts
December 13, 2006 09:24:00 am

Israel's Supreme Court Tuesday unanimously overturned a law barring Palestinians from claiming compensation from the Israeli state in respect of damages suffered in "conflict zones" in Gaza and the West Bank. The so-called Intifada law...

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News Skilling reporting to prison after bail application rejected
Skilling reporting to prison after bail application rejected
Bernard Hibbitts
December 13, 2006 08:51:00 am

Former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling is expected to report to a minimum security federal prison in Waseca, Minnesota to begin a 24-year sentence for fraud, conspiracy and insider trading after a...

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News DOJ appeals ruling that US currency discriminates against blind
DOJ appeals ruling that US currency discriminates against blind
Bernard Hibbitts
December 13, 2006 08:20:00 am

The US Department of Justice filed an appeal Tuesday against a November 28 ruling by US District Judge James Robertson declaring that "the Treasury Department’s failure to design and issue paper currency that is readily distinguishable to...

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News McNulty memorandum on corporate prosecutions [US DOJ]
McNulty memorandum on corporate prosecutions [US DOJ]
Bernard Hibbitts
December 12, 2006 10:44:00 pm

Principles of Federal Prosecution of Business Organizations, US Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty, December 12, 2006. Read the full text of the memorandum . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here....

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News UK Iraq war inquiry ruling [UK CA]
UK Iraq war inquiry ruling [UK CA]
Bernard Hibbitts
December 12, 2006 08:42:00 pm

The Queen on the application of Gentle and Clarke v. The Prime Minister et al., Court of Appeal, Mr. Justice Collins, December 12, 2006 [rejecting an attempt to force the government to hold a public inquiry into the UK's decision...

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President Lincoln signed first US federal income tax act

On July 1, 1862, the Tax Act of 1862 was passed and signed by President Lincoln, establishing a 3% federal tax on income above $600 and a 5% tax on income above $10,000.

Compliance with the act was poor, even though there were needs for the Civil War. After the war the act was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. Review a brief history of the US income tax from the Library of Congress.

UK returns Hong Kong to China

On July 1, 1997, the United Kingdom returned Hong Kong to China at the conclusion of a 99-year lease. The foundation for the transfer of power was set in December of 1984, when China and UK signed the Sino-British Joint Declaration on Hong Kong. The Declaration affirmed the handover of Hong Kong along with governing principles. Most significantly, the Chinese agreed not to impose their socialist system on Hong Kong.

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