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Federal judge revives Islamic charity warrantless wiretapping lawsuit

[JURIST] A judge in the US District Court for the Northern District of California [official website] on Monday ruled that a lawsuit brought by an Islamic charity that alleged it was the subject of an illegal wiretap by the National Security Agency (NSA) [official... [full story]

TSA officials and JetBlue Airways settle discrimination suit for $240,000

[JURIST] The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Monday announced that two Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officials and JetBlue Airways have paid a $240,000 settlement to a man who claims he was discriminated against on a flight.... [more]
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Good and the Legal Future of 'Light' Cigarettes

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Avi Bell [Director, Global Law Forum, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs]: "It is tragic when distinguished human rights organizations soil their reputations by resorting to falsehoods and legal misstatements in the service of political propaganda. Unfortunately, this is the only way to characterize Amnesty International's January 2 broadside against Israel in an open letter [PDF file] to the US ...." [more]
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Supreme Court heard New York Times v. Sullivan (U.S.)

On January 6, 1964, the US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the free speech/free press case of New York Times v. Sullivan. Columbia Law School professor Herbert Wechsler argued for the petitioner. Listen to the oral arguments on Oyez, the Supreme Court multimedia database at Northwestern University....." [more]
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