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for June, 2006.
30 June 2006
Legislative Hearing on H.R. 5219, Judicial Transparency and Ethics Enhancement Act of 2006, US House Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security, June 29, 2006 [hearing on draft legislation to establish a judicial branch
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30 June 2006
[JURIST] The International Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) [official website] on Friday convicted [judgment summary] Naser Oric [ICTY case backgrounder; Wikipedia profile], a former senior commander of Bosnian Muslim forces in Srebrenica, for fa
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30 June 2006
[JURIST] The Iraqi High Tribunal said on Friday that while coalition forces still provide physical protection for former Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz [BBC profile; JURIST news archive], he has been safe and in no danger in the legal custody of the Ir
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30 June 2006
[JURIST] USA Today reported [USA Today article] Friday that its inside sources at BellSouth and Verizon are unable to "document a contractual relationship" between the two phone companies and the National Security Agency, or document that "the companies t
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30 June 2006
[JURIST] Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee [official website] said on Friday that he would like the state legislature to consider reinstating a ban on same-sex foster parents after the Arkansas Supreme Court [official website] Thursday struck down [ruling,
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30 June 2006
[JURIST] The US military is investigating reports that five US soldiers raped a young woman in the city of Mahmudiyah [globalsecurity.org backgrounder; also "Mahmoudiyah", "Mahmoudiya" or "Mahmudiya"] and then killed her and three family members last Marc
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30 June 2006
[JURIST] Uzbekistan moved closer to abolishing the death penalty on Thursday as Uzbek President Islam Karimov [BBC profile] ordered the establishment of a commission charged with drafting anti-death penalty legislation as well as new criminal laws, both s
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30 June 2006
[JURIST] A panel of federal judges in Texas has given parties to a lawsuit over Texas' congressional district two weeks to propose a solution [order, PDF] to the 2003 Texas redistricting plan [official website] for the 23rd Congressional District, which t
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30 June 2006
[JURIST] Israeli Attorney General Menachem Mazuz [official profile] has said that a group of two dozen Hamas MPs and ministers who were detained [JURIST report] Thursday will not be held in administrative detention [B'Tselem backgrounder] under the Incarc
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30 June 2006
[JURIST] Tenet Healthcare [corporate website] has agreed to pay $900 million [US DOJ press release] to resolve federal allegations of illegal Medicare billing practices. Tenet was charged [DOJ press release] in 2003 with violating the False Claims Act [t
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