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Supreme Court hears drug conviction deportation cases
The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] on Tuesday heard oral arguments in the consolidated case of Lopez v. Gonzales and Toledo-Flores v. US [Duke Law case backgrounder; merit briefs], in which the Court will decide whether im (More) |
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Australia AG insists Hicks military trial will not hear evidence coerced by torture
The US military commission expected to try Australian Guantanamo detainee David Hicks will not allow evidence coerced through torture, Australian Attorney General Philip Ruddock told ABC News on Tuesday. Ruddock added that "sleep deprivation (More) |
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Australia AG says Hicks Guantanamo trial unlikely to start this year
Australian Attorney General Philip Ruddock , speaking with reporters Friday after meeting with US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and other American officials about the case of Australian Guantanamo detainee David Hicks , said it is unlikely that (More) |
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North Dakota death sentence
Michael Paranzino [President, Throw Away The Key]: "North Dakota should bring back the death penalty, and it's sad that it took the brutal murder of a young woman, Dru Sjodin, by a convicted sex offender, to wake up the state's lawmakers (More) |
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Supreme Court takes nine cases in lead-up to fall session
The US Supreme Court granted certiorari in nine cases Tuesday less than a week ahead of the official opening of its 2006 Term on October 2. The grants were decided in the Court's long conference Monday following a summer break and were picked f (More) |
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History Starts Today: The Perils of Habeas-Stripping
JURIST Guest Columnist Alison Nathan of Fordham University School of Law says that the provision in the military commissions bill stripping the federal courts of habeas jurisdiction over detainees threatens a fundamental element of our constitutional (More) |
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Saddam thrown out of court for third consecutive time
Saddam Hussein was thrown out of court Tuesday for the third time by new chief judge Mohammed Oreibi al-Khalifa, who took over the genocide trial after the former chief judge was removed by the Iraqi government last week. Oreibi opened Tuesday&# (More) |
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Courts-martial ordered for Marines charged with Hamdania death
Three US Marines charged with murdering an unarmed Iraqi civilian in April in Hamdania will face courts-martial, the Marine Corps announced Monday. The decision follows preliminary hearings for the three Marines, all of whom are based at Camp Pe (More) |
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'All the Laws But One': Parsing the Military Commissions Bill
JURIST Guest Columnist Benjamin Davis of the University of Toledo College of Law says that the overall theme of the "compromise" military commissions bill seems to be the highly-problematic creation of a unique legal regime for a specific g (More) |
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How the Compromise Detainee Legislation Guts Common Article 3
JURIST Guest Columnist David Scheffer, former US Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues (1997-2001), now at Northwestern University School of Law, says that the new "compromise" language on detainee treatment included in the latest versi (More) |
Congress approves first Patent Act
On April 10, 1790, Congress approved America's first Patent Act. The Patent Act of 1790 allowed inventors to maintain "sole and exclusive right and liberty of making, constructing, using and vending to others" the rights to a patented invention for fourteen years. The Act furthermore created the U.S. Patent Board, the precursor to the modern U.S. Patent Office.
Read the current U.S. Patent Act from the Cornell University Law School, and read A History of the Early Patent Office by Kenneth W. Dobyns.
