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Friday, August 30, 2002 NEW ON THE WEB WTO: US tax breaks illegal In an arbitration judgment [PDF] rendered Friday, the World Trade Organization authorized the European Union to levy duties of over $4 billion against the United States as compensation for illegal US tax breaks. The judgment is the largest in WTO history. LEARN MORE ABOUT THE WTO
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NEW ON THE WEB Government seeks permission to appeal Hamdi ruling The Secretary of Defense has filed an interlocutory appeal [PDF] with the 4th Circuit US Court of Appeals seeking permission to immediately appeal to that Court from an August 16 District Court order which refused to dismiss a habeas corpus petition for Yaser Esam Hamdi on the grounds that he was a "captured enemy combatant." READ MORE ABOUT THE HAMDI CASE
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NEW ON JURIST Positions at the University of Cincinnati College of Law The University of Cincinnati College of Law is seeking entry-level and lateral applicants for several tenure track and visiting faculty positions, a Director of their Center for Corporate Law, and an experienced professor to teach Constitutional Law (suitably qualified candidates for this last position will be considered for an endowed professorship). READ MORE AND SEE OTHER LAW TEACHING JOBS
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NEW ON THE WEB Support for First Amendment eroding According to a new poll released Thursday by the First Amendment Center as part of a larger study of the state of the First Amendment [PDF] in 2002, almost half of Americans now think that the free speech, free press and other constitutional guarantees in the First Amendment go too far. 49% of those surveyed expressed this opinion, up 10% from those who held the same view a year ago, before the events of September 11. READ AN OVERVIEW OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT
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As the new Supreme Court term approaches, join Harvard law professor 
of the Hague war crimes trial of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic for Friday, August 30 are now online.
