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DOJ dropping charges against Blackwater guard involved in 2007 Iraq shootings

[JURIST] Federal prosecutors from the US Department of Justice (DOJ) [official website] indicated Friday that they will drop manslaughter charges against a Blackwater Worldwide [JURIST news archive] security guard who had been involved in the September 2007 shooting... [full story]

Canada court orders review of US lesbian soldier refugee claim

[JURIST] Canada's Federal Court Friday ordered a review of a denial of refugee status for a lesbian US soldier who deserted the US Army in 2007 and fled to Canada. The Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) originally rejected Bethany Smith's application.... [more]
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A Risk Worth Taking: Civilian Trials for Guantanamo Terror Suspects

L. Friedman/ V. Hansen
New England School of Law


Simple Justice: Time for the US to Support the ICC

David Crane, Syracuse U.
Leila Sadat, WUSTL

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Decision to suppress detainee abuse photos keeps public in dark about misconduct11/22
Alexander Abdo [Legal Fellow, National Security Project, American Civil Liberties Union]: "Historically, the United States has championed the use of photographic evidence of human-rights abuses to advance the cause of justice. The reason is simple: Pictures have a unique ability to transform public debate. They convey in plain and unadulterated form what words cannot. It was the video of the ...." [more]
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PITTSBURGH: Witness for Peace Spokesperson Discusses Immigration, NAFTA11/16
Anna Kavalauskas, Pitt Law '12, attended a talk on the impact of Mexicans' migration in the US, given by Witness for Peace spokesperson Paola Gutierrez Galindo...Tension surrounding Mexican immigration is growing, and I think almost everyone involved in the debate would say that the system is broken, especially Paola Gutierrez Galindo. From Oaxaca, Mexico, Galindo holds a degree in Indigenous Law ...." [more]
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Ricci v. DeStefano8/31
JURIST Guest Analyst Sheila R. Foster is the Albert A. Walsh Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Fordham Law School in New York City, where she teaches and writes on issues relating to anti-discrimination law and environmental justice. She is also Co-Director of the Stein Center for Law and Ethics. She is the author (with R. A. Lenhardt) of The Racial Subject in Legal Theory in ...." [more]
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President Kennedy assassinated, VP Lyndon Johnson sworn inin

On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. Later that day, Vice-President Lyndon Johnson was sworn in as the 36th President of the United States. Earl Warren, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, was later tasked with leading a commission to investigation the assassination. President Johnson received the final report of the Warren Commission on September...." [more]
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