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WikiLeaks judge: prosecutors must prove defendant knew he was aiding enemy
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January 17, 2013 02:00:08 pm

Army Colonel Denise Lind, who is presiding over the prosecution of Bradley Manning , ruled on Wednesday that prosecutors must prove that Manning was aware that he was providing information to an enemy of the...

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Saudi Arabia court convicts Egypt rights lawyer of drug smuggling
Daniel Mullen
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A Saudi Arabian court on Tuesday convicted prominent Egyptian human rights lawyer Ahmed el-Gezawi of smuggling drugs. Despite requests from Saudi prosecutors for the death penalty, el-Gezawi was given a sentence of five years imprisonment and 300...

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ICC asks Libya officials to explain plans to try Gaddafi son
Daniel Mullen
January 10, 2013 01:45:35 pm

The International Criminal Court (ICC) asked Libyan officials Thursday to address reports that they plan to try Saif al-Islam Gaddafi , the son of former leader Muammar Gaddafi ,...

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ICJ urges Nepal government to cooperate with UK in torture investigation
Daniel Mullen
January 8, 2013 12:33:11 pm

The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) on Tuesday called on the Nepal government to cooperate with an investigation into allegations leveled against Nepal Army Colonel Kumar Lama. Lama was arrested in the UK...

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FTC finds Google did not violate antitrust or anticompetition laws
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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced on Thursday that Google did not violate antitrust or anticompetition laws. Google's practice of favoring its own services in search results, to the detriment of its competitors,...

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January 4, 2013 11:09:59 am

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Thursday announced a settlement with Transocean Deepwater Inc. for the company's role in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill . Transocean pleaded guilty ...

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Obama adminisration announces immigration rule to ease family separation
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January 3, 2013 04:34:07 pm

US Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano announced a new rule Wednesday which will make easier for undocumented immigrants to become citizens if they have an immediate relative who is an American citizen. Under existing law...

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Obama signs defense spending bill despite Guantanamo restrictions
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US President Barack Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act of 2013 (NDAA) into law on Thursday. The bill, which authorizes appropriations for military activities for 2013, expressly prohibits using...

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January 2, 2013 04:38:51 pm

A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of California on Wednesday dismissed a false advertising claim by Apple against Amazon over the use of the term "APP STORE" for the Android...

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January 2, 2013 03:09:36 pm

A study carried out by the the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has found that more than 60,000 people have been killed in the conflict in Syria since March 2011....

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THIS DAY @ LAW

President Johnson signed law against burning draft cards

On August 31, 1965, President Johnson signed a law making the burning of draft cards a federal offense subject to a five-year prison sentence and $1000 fine. In response to the law and in protest of the war in Vietnam, the student-run National Coordinating Committee to End the War in Vietnam staged the first public burning of a draft card in the United States on October 15, 1965. The constitutionality of the federal law was upheld in 1968 by the US Supreme Court in US v. O'Brien.

Gdansk Agreement reached

On August 31, 1980, the communist government of Poland and labor leaders settled the Gdansk Agreement. The accord settled a summer of labor strikes at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk, Poland. With the Agreement, Poland became the first communist country to allow the creation of an independent labor union, which was called Solidarity. Solidarity then became the driving force that ended communism in Poland.
Learn more about the history of Solidarity.

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