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News Google gets extension to negotiate book scanning settlement
Google gets extension to negotiate book scanning settlement
Julia Zebley
July 20, 2011 12:34:06 pm

A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Tuesday extended settlement negotiations for an additional two months in The Authors Guild et al v. Google Inc. , a copyright...

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News UN dismisses ICTY staff member’s appeal of contempt conviction
UN dismisses ICTY staff member’s appeal of contempt conviction
Julia Zebley
July 20, 2011 11:23:06 am

The Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Tuesday upheld the contempt conviction of former spokesperson Florence Hartmann . A specially appointed chamber...

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News Serbia captures final ICTY fugitive Goran Hadzic
Serbia captures final ICTY fugitive Goran Hadzic
Julia Zebley
July 20, 2011 09:16:48 am

Serbian authorities on Wednesday arrested Goran Hadzic , the last fugitive of the original 161 sought for war crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) . Serbian President Boris Tadic...

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News Clinton criticizes Turkish rights record
Clinton criticizes Turkish rights record
Julia Zebley
July 17, 2011 02:55:22 pm

US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Saturday criticized Turkey's neglect of some human rights issues , including a lack of religious freedom, the censoring of the internet and improper detention of...

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News USITC rules HTC infringed two Apple patents; HTC will appeal
USITC rules HTC infringed two Apple patents; HTC will appeal
Julia Zebley
July 17, 2011 02:00:28 pm

Apple prevailed in a complaint against HTC on Saturday when the US International Trade Commission (USITC) ruled against HTC for patent infringement on patents 5,946,647 and 6,343,263...

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News Belgium officially bans burqa
Belgium officially bans burqa
Julia Zebley
July 14, 2011 01:59:01 pm

Belgium's interim cabinet announced via the Belgian Official Journal Thursday that the nation will be officially banning the burqa . The Belgian House of Representatives voted 136-0 to...

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News UK Supreme Court bars ‘secret evidence’ in Guantanamo trials
UK Supreme Court bars ‘secret evidence’ in Guantanamo trials
Julia Zebley
July 14, 2011 09:30:42 am

The UK Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that secret service organizations cannot withhold evidence from opposing parties nor conduct closed trials. The appellants, secret service organizations including MI5 , appealing a May 2010 ruling [JURIST...

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News Utah polygamy law challenged in federal lawsuit
Utah polygamy law challenged in federal lawsuit
Julia Zebley
July 13, 2011 02:55:20 pm

A polygamous family filed a lawsuit on Wednesday in the US District Court for the District of Utah seeking to overturn the state's prohibition on bigamy as a violation of their...

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News China drafts new human rights plan
China drafts new human rights plan
Julia Zebley
July 13, 2011 10:52:12 am

The State Council Information Office (SICO) of China said Wednesday that they are in the process of drafting a new human rights plan to be fully implemented by 2015. Declaring the National Human Rights Action...

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News Bankruptcy judge approves first payouts to Madoff victims
Bankruptcy judge approves first payouts to Madoff victims
Julia Zebley
July 13, 2011 09:24:27 am

Judge Burton Lifland of the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York approved the first settlement payments to victims of the $65 billion Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme, sending payments of approximately...

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Supreme Court upheld wartime detention of Japanese-Americans

On December 18, 1944, the US Supreme Court decided Korematsu v. United States, upholding the wartime relocation of Japanese Americans to internment camps.

Read Executive Order 9066, issued by President Roosevelt on February 19, 1942, under which the internments were authorized. View photos from the Japanese American internment camps, collected by the University of Utah Library.

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December 18 is International Migrants Day [UN factsheet], marking the 1990 adoption of the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families.

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